N. Scott Momaday was born in Lawton, Oklahoma, to a father of Kiowa Indian heritage and a mother of European and Cherokee heritage. N. Scott Momaday led the renaissance of Native American writing when he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1969. As such, the book does not have a conventional structure or plot arc. He received his BA in political science in 1958 from the University of New Mexico. He earned his BA from the University of New Mexico and a MA and PhD from Stanford University. It is at once a history of the Kiowa people, a love letter to the plains landscape, a collection of memories of N. Scott Momaday ’s family and tribe, and an experimental reworking of historical writing that attempts to integrate different kinds of knowledge about the past. About N. Scott Momaday Navarre Scott Momaday (February 27, 1934 -) was born in Lawton, Oklahoma.

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N. Scott Momaday, in full Navarre Scott Momaday, (born February 27, 1934, Lawton, Oklahoma, U.S.), Native American author of many works centred on his Kiowa heritage. It was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1969, and has also been noted for its significance in Native American anthropology. The Word did not come into being, but it was. When he was 1 year old, his parents moved from the Kiowa Indian reservation to Arizona.
They have one child. N. Scott Momaday, a noted Native American author, reads his works and tells anecdotes about his life. Navarro Scott Mammedaty, a Kiowa Indian, was born in Lawton, Oklahoma in - The Academy of American Poets is the largest membership-based nonprofit organization fostering an appreciation for contemporary poetry and supporting American poets. He spent his childhood on the Navajo, Apache and Pueblo reservations of the American Southwest. Kiowa country is mainly in Southwestern Oklahoma, known for its soaring mountains and rippling streams. At Stanford University he received his MA and PhD in English, in 1960 and 1963, respectively. Pulitzer Prize winning poet and scholar, N. Scott Momaday, asserts there is a mysterious need to experience our closeness to the earth. He graduated from the University of New Mexico, and continued on to Stanford University, where he received a poetry fellowship for Creative Writing. N. Scott Momaday’s most popular book is House Made of Dawn. N. Scott Momaday Biography In keeping with Kiowa and other Native traditions which see each individual as part of a complex set of kinship, clan, and place relations, N. Scott Momaday opens his memoir, The Names, with a long exploration of his ancestry and genealogy. He has been married to Regina Heitzer since July 21, 1979.

N. Scott Momaday. It also won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1969. He is known for his work on House Made of Dawn (1972), More Than Bows & Arrows (1978) and Remembered Earth: New Mexico's High Desert (2005).