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Momaday, N(avarre) Scott

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Momaday, N[avarre] Scott (1934– ),Oklahoma‐born author of Kiowa ancestry whose books include House Made of Dawn (1969, Pulitzer Prize), a novel about a young Indian man unable to be at home in either the white or his ancestral society: The Way to Rainy Mountain (1969), Kiowa legends told in relation to history and his own youth; Angle of Geese (1973) and The Gourd Dancer (1976), poems; The Names (1976), a memoir; and The Ancient Child (1989), about a young Indian who lives first in San Francisco, then in Paris with success as an artist. Momaday was a professor of English at Stanford (1972–81), from which he received a Ph.D. for his critique and edition of the poems of Frederick Goddard Tuckerman. He is currently teaching at the University of Arizona.

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