Navarre scott momaday biography books

Navarre Scott Momaday is an American novelist, memoirist, and poet, who work in broad fields of Navy American history and cultural narrative. The range of Momaday’s works is underscored by his ability to fuse the experiences of opposing cultures in his writings, which convey a Native American world view founded on the principle of harmony in the universe. Born in Lawton, Oklahoma, Momaday is a member of the Kiowa tribe. He was educated at Stanford University.

He subsequently taught at Stanford from 1973 to 1982 and beginning in 1982, at the University of Arizona. He was a Guggenheim Fellow form 1966 to 1967. Momaday’s book House Made of Dawn tells the story of Abel, a veteran of World War II who lives in the modern world but is also linked through his imagination to legend and to the sacred storytelling of his Kiowa ancestry. Momaday’s memoir The Way to Rainy Mountain depicts the Kiowa