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N. Scott Momaday

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N. Scott Momaday


Born
in Lawton, Oklahoma, The United States
February 27, 1934

Died
January 24, 2024

Website

Genre
Literature & Fiction, Poetry, Children's Books


N. Scott Momaday's baritone voice booms from any stage. The listener, whether at the United Nations in New York City or next to the radio at home, is transported through time, known as 'kairos"and space to Oklahoma near Carnegie, to the "sacred, red earth" of Momaday's tribe.

Born Feb. 27, 1934, Momaday's most famous book remains 1969's House Made of Dawn, the story of a Pueblo boy torn between the modern and traditional worlds, for which he won a Pulitzer Prize and was honored by his tribe. He is a member of the Kiowa Gourd Dance Society. He is also a Regents Professor of Humanities at the University of Arizona, and has published other novels, memoir, plays and poetry. He's been called the dean of American Indian writers, and he has influe ...more

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Average rating: 3.77 · 19,457 ratings · 2,077 reviews · 79 distinct works • Similar authors
House Made of Dawn
3.62 avg rating — 10,400 ratings — published 1968 — 7 editions
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The Way to Rainy Mountain
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3.80 avg rating — 4,204 ratings — published 1969 — 51 editions
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Earth Keeper: Reflections o...
4.23 avg rating — 1,927 ratings — published 2020 — 9 editions
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The Death of Sitting Bear: ...
3.98 avg rating — 475 ratings — published 2020 — 7 editions
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The Ancient Child
3.76 avg rating — 478 ratings — published 1989 — 12 editions
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Dream Drawings: Configurati...
3.92 avg rating — 318 ratings — published 2022 — 7 editions
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The Names
3.83 avg rating — 266 ratings — published 1976 — 17 editions
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The Man Made of Words: Essa...
4.08 avg rating — 245 ratings — published 1997 — 12 editions
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In the Bear's House
4.10 avg rating — 167 ratings — 13 editions
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In The Presence of The Sun:...
4.03 avg rating — 133 ratings — published 1992 — 10 editions
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“A word has power in and of itself. It comes from nothing into sound and meaning; it gives origin to all things.”
― N. Scott Momaday, The Way to Rainy Mountain
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“As far as I am concerned, poetry is a statement concerning the human condition, composed in verse.”
― N. Scott Momaday
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“I wonder if, in the dark night of the sea, the octopus dreams of me.”
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Polls

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Ater the Summer of Love in 1967 what author published a book in 1968 that would win the 1969 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction?

Tom Wolfe
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test - Tom Wolfe
 
  1 vote, 100.0%

N. Scott Momaday
House Made of Dawn - N. Scott Momaday
 
  0 votes, 0.0%

Gore Vidal
Myra Breckinridge - Gore Vidal
 
  0 votes, 0.0%

Philip K. Dick
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Philip K. Dick
 
  0 votes, 0.0%

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