N. Scott Momaday was born in Lawton, Oklahoma, in 1934. He earned a B.A. in English at the University of New Mexico in 1958 and a Ph.D. in English literature at Stanford University in 1963. He wrote fiction, poetry, essays and memoir.
His first novel, House Made of Dawn (1968), won the 1969 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. His other books include The Way to Rainy Mountain (1969) and The Names: A Memoir (1976). He received the National Medal of Arts in 2007 and died in Santa Fe, New Mexico, in 2024.
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