Momaday

[mom-uh-dey]

noun

1. N(avarro) Scott 1934–2024, Native American poet and novelist.

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M. Scott Momaday, in his essay “The Way to Rainy Mountain,” describes his Kiowa grandmother, who “bore an image of deicide.”

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N. Scott Momaday, whose portrayal of a disaffected World War II veteran’s journey to spiritual renewal in his novel “House Made of Dawn” won a Pulitzer Prize, the first for a Native American author, heralding a more prominent place in contemporary literature for Native writers, died on Wednesday at his home in Sante Fe, N.M.

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Mr. Momaday also wrote critically acclaimed poetry, memoirs and essays.

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Mr. Momaday began “House Made of Dawn,” a first novel that won the Pulitzer for fiction in 1969, with a one-word sentence: “Dypaloh.”

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Momaday died Wednesday at his home in Santa Fe, New Mexico, publisher HarperCollins announced.

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