Birth date:
02/27/1934
Death date:
Birth town:
Lawton
Country:
Oklahoma
Kiowa-Cherokee writer from Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Arizona.
He is the son of the writer Natachee Scott Momaday and the painter Al Momaday. He is enrolled in the Kiowa Tribe of Oklahoma but also has Cherokee heritage from his mother.
Momaday's novel House Made of Dawn led to the breakthrough of Native American literature into the mainstream. It was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1969.
Poems by this Poet
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Post date | Rating | Comments |
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| A Simile | 30 July 2013 |
(63 votes) |
0 |
| Angle of Geese | 31 July 2013 |
No votes yet |
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| Before an Old Painting of the Crucifixion | 31 July 2013 |
No votes yet |
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| Eagle Feather Fan | 31 July 2013 |
(2 votes) |
0 |
| The Delight Song of Tsoai-Talee | 31 July 2013 |
No votes yet |
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| The Earth | 31 July 2013 |
(1 vote) |
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