Modern Native American Writers

May 21, 2014 · by Brenda Lloyd | in The Story of Books | tagged American Book Award list, Birchbark Books & Native Arts, Blue Highways, contemporary Native American writers, Duan Niatum, Gerald Vizenor, House of Dawn, James Welch, Janet Campbell Hale, Leslie Marmon Silko, Louise Erdrich, N. Scott Momaday, Native American literature, nila northSun, Paula Gunn Allen, Plague of Doves, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction list, Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, The Roundhouse, Vine Deloria Jr., War Dances, Wendy Rose, William Least Heat-Moon | 1 Comment

Dypaloh. There was a house made of dawn. It was made of pollen and of rain, and the land was very old and everlasting. This is how N. Scott Momaday, an author of Kiowa/Cherokee heritage, opens his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, House Made of Dawn, published in 1968. His beautifully crafted book is credited with […]