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N. Scott Momaday   (1934- )

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N. Scott Momaday at Modern American Poetry
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/m_r/momaday/momaday.htm

Perhaps the most impressive site dedicated to an author on the Internet, M.A.P. covers almost every aspect of N. Scott Momaday's career. The biography is not only comprehensive, but it also provides a multicultural context for Momaday's place in American poetry. The site also contains extensive criticism and interpretation of the author's poetry, pictures of his shield paintings, information on his society to preserve Native American culture, and reproductions of his book jackets.

N. Scott Momaday Links
http://www.i5ive.com/linkcategory.cfm/8961/17544

This site offers links for N. Scott Momaday including interviews, chapter excerpts, photographs, and critical essays.

BIOGRAPHY
Navarre Scott Momaday (b. 1934) was born in Lawton, Oklahoma, the son of a painter and a writer. He lived on the Kiowa Indian reservation until he and his family moved to Arizona. As a young boy he was exposed not only to the Cherokee and Kiowa traditions of his parents, but also the Navajo, Apache, and Pueblo Indian cultures of the Southwest. Momaday's expansive academic career includes study at the Virginia military academy, the University of New Mexico, the University of Virginia, and Stanford, where he received a M.A. and Ph.D. in English. He published his first novel, The House Made of Dawn, in 1968, which won the Pulitzer prize. Momaday accepted a teaching position at the University of California, Berkeley where he designed a graduate program of Indian Studies. He has continued to publish books, all to critical acclaim, winning such prestigious awards as the Academy of American Poets Prize (1962), the Guggenheim fellowship (1966-67), and National Institute of Arts and Letters grant (1970).

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