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| Natachee Scott Momaday, Kiowa poet, novelist,
and essayist was born in 1934 in Lawton, Oklahoma. He spent his
childhood on various southwestern reservations where his parents worked
with the Indian service, a period of his life chronicled in his
autobiographical work The Names (Harper and Row, 1977) and reflected in
his Pulitzer Prize winning novel House Made of Dawn (Harper and Row,
1969). A graduate of the University of New Mexico, he received his M.A.
and Ph.D. in English Literature at Stanford where he was a Creative
Writing Fellow in Poetry. After teaching English and Comparative
Literature for a number of years in California at both Stanford and
Berkeley, he returned to the southwest and is currently a member of the
English Department at the University of Arizona. His other books
include The Way to Rainy Mountain (University of New Mexico Press),
which tells the story of the migration of his Kiowa ancestors from
northern Montana to the southern Plains and The Gourd Dancer (Harper
and Row), a collection of his poems. He is married and the father of
three daughters. |
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