N. Scott Momaday

N. Scott Momaday is a poet, novelist, playwright, storyteller, artist, and a professor of English and American literature. He is a Kiowa and a member of the renowned Kiowa Gourd Dance Society. Educated at the University of New Mexico and Stanford University, he holds an earned Ph.D. and is presently Regents’ Professor of the Humanities at the University of Arizona. He has received the Pulitzer Prize (for House Made of Dawn), a Guggenheim Fellowship, numerous honorary degrees, and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.  His books have been translated into French, German, Italian, Russian, Japanese, and Spanish, and include, in addition to House Made of Dawn, The Way to Rainy Mountain, Angle of Geese, The Gourd Dancer, The Names, The Ancient Child, In the Presence of the Sun, The Man Made of Words, In the Bear’s House, and Circle of Wonder. His articles have appeared in numerous periodicals, and he has lectured and given readings both here and abroad. In addition to creating the Buffalo Trust, he was a founding Trustee of the National Museum of the American Indian, and sits on the Boards of First Nations Development Institute and the School of American Research.