Navarre scott momaday biography definition

Navarre Scott Momaday (born February 27, 1934) is a Kiowanovelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet.

Momaday was born in Lawton, Oklahoma. He is a Native American of the Kiowa people.

Navarre scott momaday biography definition

His early life and education happened on Navajo, Apache, and Jemez Puebloreservations. He went to college at the University of New Mexico. He got his masters and doctoral degrees at Stanford University.^[1]

In 1969 his first novel, House Made of Dawn, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.^[2] He receved the National Medal of Arts in November 2007.^[3] In 2019 he was given the Richard C.

Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award from the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. That award said, "Momaday speaks for the Earth, [seeing] the natural world as a sacred space and [telling] us that humans are a part of, not apart from that world."^[4]

Momaday's writing often mixes up fiction, poetry, and non-fiction.

In The Way to Rainy Mountain, he uses