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Scott Momaday Date of birth: February 27, 1934
The Writer Warrior
Navarre Scott Momaday was born in Lawton, Oklahoma and spent the first year of his life at his grandparents' home on the Kiowa Indian reservation, where his father was born and raised. When he was one year old, Scott's parents moved to Arizona. His father was a painter. His mother, who is of English and Cherokee descent, became an author of children's books.
Both worked as teachers on Indian reservations when Scott was growing up, and the boy was exposed not only to the Kiowa traditions of his father's family but to the Navajo, Apache and Pueblo Indian cultures of the Southwest. Momaday early developed an interest in literature, especially poetry.
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Academy of American Poets Prize, 1962
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 1969
Guggenheim Fellowship, 1966 /67
National Institute of Arts and Letters grant, 1970 |
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Books By N. Scott Momaday |
The Ancient Child
New York : HarperPerennial, 1990.
Genre: Fiction
Angle of Geese and Other Poems
Boston : D. R. Godine, 1974.
Before an old painting of the Crucifixion, Carmel Mission, June, 1960
San Francisco : Valenti Angelo, 1975.
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