Background
Momaday, Navarre Scott was born on February 27, 1934 in Lawton, Oklahoma, United States. Son of Alfred Morris and Natachee (Scott) Momaday.
( "In the Presence of the Sun presents 30 years of select...)
"In the Presence of the Sun presents 30 years of selected works by N. Scott Momaday, the well-known Southwest Native American novelist. His unadorned poetry, which recounts fables and rituals of the Kiowa nation, conveys the deep sense of place of the Native American oral tradition. Here are dream-songs about animals (bear, bison, terrapin) and life away from urban alienation, an imagined re-creation based on Billy the Kid, prose poems about Plains Shields (and a fascinating discussion of their background), and new poems that utilize primary colors ('forms of the earth') to express instinctive continuities of a pre-Columbian vision."--Library Journal "The strong, spare beauty of In the Presence of the Sun is compelling evidence that Scott Momaday is one of the most versatile and distinguished artists in America today."--Peter Matthiessen ". . . the images, the voices, the people are shadowy, elusive, burning with invention, like flames against a dark sky. For behind them is always the artist-author himself . . . a man with a sacred investiture. Strong medicine, strong art indeed."--The New York Times Book Review
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( Haske, a Navaho boy, is torn between the past of his pe...)
Haske, a Navaho boy, is torn between the past of his people's rich, self-sustaining culture and a present that opens up new possibilities. His parents propel him in one direction, his grandfather in another, his teacher in still another. The boy has a secret wish, but its fulfillment seems beyond reach. At night he listens to the hoot of the owl in the cedar tree and wonders if good fortune or bad is in store. This beautifully written story finally supplies the answer.
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( "Tai-me" is a traditional medicine bundle used by the K...)
"Tai-me" is a traditional medicine bundle used by the Kiowa in their Sun Dance. The bundle has been handed down from generation to generation, through the nineteenth century and into the twentieth. N. Scott Momaday made this discovery when he began his journey to learn about the Kiowa and his paternal lineage. Following the death of his beloved Kiowa grandmother, Aho, in 1963 Momaday set out on his quest to learn and document the Kiowa heritage, stories, and folklore. His Kiowa-speaking father, artist Al Momaday, served as translator when Scott visited tribal elders to ask about their memories and stories. Scott gathered these stories into The Journey of Tai-me. Originally published only in a limited edition in 1967, The Journey of Tai-me is recognized as the basis from which Momaday's more popular The Way to Rainy Mountain grew. When compiling The Way to Rainy Mountain, published by the University of New Mexico Press, Momaday added his own memories and some poems.
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( "Circle of Wonder centers upon a world that is so dear ...)
"Circle of Wonder centers upon a world that is so dear to me as to be engraved on my memory forever. I was a boy of twelve when my parents and I moved to Jemez Pueblo, New Mexico in 1946. . . . It was a place of singular beauty and wonder and delight. My first Christmas there was beyond my imagining. . . . The night sky was radiant; the silence was vast and serene. In all the years of my life I have not gone farther into the universe. I have not known better the essence of peace and the sense of eternity. I have come no closer to the understanding of the most holy."--N. Scott Momaday
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The magnificent Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of a stranger in his native land A young Native American, Abel has come home from a foreign war to find himself caught between two worlds. The first is the world of his father's, wedding him to the rhythm of the seasons, the harsh beauty of the land, and the ancient rites and traditions of his people. But the other world -- modern, industrial America -- pulls at Abel, demanding his loyalty, claiming his soul, goading him into a destructive, compulsive cycle of dissipation and disgust. And the young man, torn in two, descends into hell.
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( In his first novel since the Pulitzer Prize-winning Hou...)
In his first novel since the Pulitzer Prize-winning House Made of Dawn, N. Scott Momaday shapes the ancient Kiowa myth of a boy who turned into a bear into a timeless American classic. The Ancient Child juxtaposes Indian lore and Wild West legend into a hypnotic, often lyrical contemporary novel--the story of Locke Setman, known as Set, a Native American raised far from the reservation by his adoptive father. Set feels a strange aching in his soul and, returning to tribal lands for the funeral of his grandmother, is drawn irresistibly to the fabled bear-boy. When he meets Grey, a beautiful young medicine woman with a visionary gift, his world is turned upside down. Here is a magical saga of one man's tormented search for his identity--a quintessential American novel, and a great one.
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Momaday, Navarre Scott was born on February 27, 1934 in Lawton, Oklahoma, United States. Son of Alfred Morris and Natachee (Scott) Momaday.
Bachelor of Arts New Mexico, 1958. AM, Stanford University, 1960. Doctor of Philosophy, Stanford University, 1963.
Assistant professor, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1963-1965; associate Professor of English, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1968-1969; associate Professor of English and comparative literature, University of California, Berkeley, 1969-1973; Professor of English and comparative literature, Stanford University, 1973-1982, from 1985; Professor of English and comparative literature, U. Arizona, Tucson, 1982-1985; Regents Professor English, U. Arizona, Tucson. Consultant National Endowment for Humanities, National Endowment for Arts, since 1970.
( The magnificent Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of a stran...)
( Haske, a Navaho boy, is torn between the past of his pe...)
( "Circle of Wonder centers upon a world that is so dear ...)
( "Tai-me" is a traditional medicine bundle used by the K...)
( In his first novel since the Pulitzer Prize-winning Hou...)
( "In the Presence of the Sun presents 30 years of select...)
(The Man Made of Words: Essays, Stories, Passages by N. Sc...)
(American Indian Studies, Photography, American Studies)
(Written and illustrated by Pulitzer Prize winner N. Scott...)
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Founding trustee Museum of America Indian, since 1978. Founder and director Buffalo Trust. Member Modern Language Association, American Studies Association, Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association.
Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Married Gaye Mangold, September 5, 1959. Children: Cael, Jill, Brit. Married Regina Heitzer, July 21, 1978.
1 daughter, Lore.