Cynthia Farah Writers of the Southwest Photograph Collection [picture]. [ca. 1980-ca. 1988]

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...

Harjo, Joy, 1951-

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Joy Harjo (born Joy Foster, on May 9, 1951, Tulsa, Oklahoma) is a poet, musician, and author. She is a member of the Muscogee Nation. She studied at the Institute of American Indian Arts, completed her undergraduate degree at University of New Mexico in 1976, and earned an M.F.A. at the University of Iowa in its Creative Writing Program. In 2019, Harjo was named the United States Poet Laureate. She is the first Native American to be so appointed. She is also the second United States Poet Laur...

Church, Peggy Pond, 1903-1986

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Poet and writer. Born in Watrous, N.M. Died in 1987. From the description of Papers, 1922-1987. (University of New Mexico-Main Campus). WorldCat record id: 32816653 Peggy Pond Church, poet and writer, was born December 1, 1903 in Watrous, New Mexico. She grew up in a rural community and attended the only grade school on the Pajarito Plateau, The Los Alamos Ranch School, founded by her father Ashley Pond. She wrote the book, The House at Otowi Bridge,...

Waters, Frank, 1907-

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Politician. Labor Party MLA for Kelvin Grove, 1932-38; Secretary of the Qld Branch of the Amalgamated Postal Workers Union of Australia, 1946-73. From the description of Papers of Frank Waters. 1935-1980. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 221458672 ...

Chavez, Angelico, 1910-1996

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Chavez was a Franciscan friar and a prominent New Mexican historian and writer. He wrote 24 books and also cataloged the archives of the Archdiocese of Santa Fe. From the description of Fray Angelico Chavez collection, 1929-1996. (Museum of New Mexico Library). WorldCat record id: 37396676 Franciscian friar and writer, born at Wagon Mound, New Mexico, 1910. From the description of Angelico Chavez papers, ca. 1950-1982. (University of New Mexico-Main Campus). Worl...

Medoff, Mark

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Anaya, Rudolfo A.

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Rudolfo Anaya was born to Martín and Rafaelita Mares Anaya on October 30, 1937, in Pastura, New Mexico. He attended public schools in Santa Rosa and Albuquerque. A student in the English Department at the University of New Mexico, he earned a B.A. in 1963 and an M.A. in 1968. In 1972 he earned a second M.A. in guidance and counseling, also from the University of New Mexico. Anaya married Patricia Lawless in 1966. After teaching in Albuquerque public schools from 1963-1970, he became director of...

Haines, Cynthia Farah, 1949-

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Abbey, Edward, 1927-1989

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American author. From the description of Edward Abbey's Vox Clamantis in Deserto: Some Notes from a Secret Journal production records, 1988-1989. (University of Arizona). WorldCat record id: 41557904 Edward Abbey was born on January 29, 1927. He grew up in the Allegheny Mountains of Pennsylvania. His first glimpse of the American Southwest was in 1944 when he hitchhiked to Seattle and then to Arizona. After serving as a U.S. Army rifleman in Italy from 1945-1946, he enrolled...

Hillerman, Tony

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Writer and teacher. Born, Anthony Grove Hillerman, Sacred Heart, Oklahoma, 1925. From the description of Papers, 1964-1996. (University of New Mexico-Main Campus). WorldCat record id: 22136922 ...