Native American Scholar, Poet, and Author
Honors Convocation
"A Morning With Scott Momaday"
Thursday, May 22, 2003
Scott Momaday has been an important voice on the American literary landscape for more than a generation. He is a poet, a Pulitzer prize-winning novelist, a playwright, a painter, a storyteller, and a professor of English and American literature. Scott Momaday was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for the novel House Made of Dawn and has received numerous awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Institute of Arts and Letters award, and the "Mondello", Italy's highest literary award. He has been a commentator for NPR's All Things Considered and the voice of the Smithsonian's Museum of the American Indian. He is a Native American (Kiowa), and among his chief interests are Native American arts and oral tradition.
Read the Press Release: "Noted Native American Author, Poet N. Scott Momaday Closes 2002-03 Convocation Series"