N. Scott Momaday
Poetry
2:30-3 pm
Book Signing
3-3:30 pm
N. Scott Momaday is a poet, novelist, playwright, storyteller, artist, and a professor of English and American literature. He is author of prose collections, plays, and works of Native American culture such as The Way to Rainy Mountain . His books of poetry include In the Bear's House and In the Presence of the Sun: Stories and Poems . His first novel, House Made of Dawn , won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1969. Among other honors, he received an Academy of American Poets Prize and an award from the National Institute of Arts and Letters. A resident of New Mexico, he is a Kiowa and a member of the Kiowa Gourd Dance Society.