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N. Scott Momaday

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House Made of Dawn Summary

When it was first published in 1968, N. Scott Momaday's House Made of Dawn garnered scarce critical and commercial attention. Yet within a year, it won the prestigious Pulitzer Prize for fiction, and had received international critical acclaim.

During the early 1970s America became interested in the plight of Native Americans as the truth about reservation life was exposed and publicized by Native American activists. By chronicling the struggles of a young Native American...

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House Made of Dawn - N. Scott Momaday - 1968

9,434 words, approx. 32 pages

House Made of Dawn - N. Scott Momaday - 1968 Introduction A powerful look at the alienation one Native American experiences, House Made of Dawn (1968) is regarded as the beginning of the Native Americ... Read more

House Made of Dawn

4,254 words, approx. 15 pages

House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday (Tsoai-talee) Of Kiowa, Cherokee, and Anglo descent, N. Scott Momaday (whose Kiowan name is Tsoai-talee, which means "Rock Tree Boy") was born in Oklahoma and... Read more

N. Scott Momaday Biographies (6)

N. Scott Momaday

1,741 words, approx. 6 pages

N. Scott Momaday (born 1934) is recognized as one of the premier writers in the United States. In 1969, his novel House Made of Dawn was awarded the Pulitzer prize for fiction.One of the most distingu... Read more

N. Scott Momaday

5,018 words, approx. 17 pages

Dubbed "the man made of words," N. Scott Momaday is a Native American poet, novelist, storyteller, and artist. "It is an identity that pleases me," the author wrote in the preface to In the Presence o... Read more

N. Scott Momaday

13 words, approx. 1 pages

"Learning from the Indian," Viva: Northern New Mexico's Sunday Magazine (9 July 1972): 2; Read more

N(avarre) Scott Momaday

7,205 words, approx. 25 pages

N. Scott Momaday is the dean of American Indian authors. (Indians, especially in Oklahoma and the Southwest, use the term Indian. Academics are the ones who chiefly use Native American.) Momaday's nov... Read more

N(avarre) Scott Momaday

7,957 words, approx. 27 pages

When N. Scott Momaday received the 1969 Pulitzer Prize for fiction for his first novel, House Made of Dawn (1968), the literary community recognized the arrival of a major contemporary Native American... Read more

N(avarre) Scott Momaday

9,739 words, approx. 33 pages

In 1969, the same year that N. Scott Momaday began his tenure as associate professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California at Berkeley, he won the Pulitzer Prize for fi... Read more