N. Scott Momaday
✓ Source-basedrisingKiowa author and academic (1934-2024)
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Navarre Scott Momaday was a Kiowa and American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet. His novel House Made of Dawn was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1969, and is considered the first major work of the Native American Renaissance.
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Wright KingAlso in House Made of Dawn (1972)
Barbara W. TuchmanAlso won St. Louis Literary Award
Elmore LeonardAlso won Owen Wister Award
Sylvia A. EarleAlso won Ken Burns American Heritage Prize
Jack SteinbergerAlso won honorary doctorate at the Blaise-Pascal university
Edgar Lee MastersAlso won Robert Frost MedalAbout this person
Country
United StatesCategory
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1934 to 2024 · aged 89
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