N. Scott Momaday papers, 1963-1972.

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N. Scott Momaday papers, 1963-1972.

Correspondence with publishers - Harper & Row, Oxford University Press, University of New Mexico Press; manuscript of House of Dawn, essays and poems, etc.

2 boxes.

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Momaday, N. Scott, 1934-2024

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Navarre Scott Momaday (born February 27, 1934, Lawton, Oklahoma – died January 24, 2024, Santa Fe, New Mexico) was an American and Kiowa novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet from Oklahoma and New Mexico. His novel House Made of Dawn was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1969, and is considered the first major work of the Native American Renaissance. His follow-up work The Way to Rainy Mountain blends folklore with memoir. Momaday received the National Medal of Arts in 2007 fo...