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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A Simile 30 July 2013
3.054795
Average: 3.1 (73 votes)
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Angle of Geese 31 July 2013
0
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Before an Old Painting of the Crucifixion 31 July 2013
0
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Eagle Feather Fan 31 July 2013
4.5
Average: 4.5 (2 votes)
0
The Delight Song of Tsoai-Talee 31 July 2013
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The Earth 31 July 2013
5
Average: 5 (1 vote)
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