Momaday
Americannoun
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Butler belongs to that small class of authors — James Baldwin, N. Scott Momaday, Ursula Le Guin — who are appreciated for what they achieved as well as for who they were.
From Seattle Times
They include such ground breakers as 88-year-old author N. Scott Momaday, the first Native American to win a Pulitzer Prize, and 82-year-old avant-garde musician and composer Annea Lockwood, a New Zealand native who said her election reaffirmed the “welcoming generosity of spirit” she had felt since moving to the U.S. in 1973.
From Seattle Times
Besides Momaday, literature inductees include “The Joy Luck Club” novelist Amy Tan, the essayist, fiction writer and translator Lydia Davis, Pulitzer winner Elizabeth Strout of “Olive Kitteridge” fame, “The Things They Carried” author Tim O’Brien and the prize-winning poet Terrance Hayes.
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“There are so many incredible Native visual artists,” she told the AP, while also citing such authors as N. Scott Momaday and Leslie Marmon Silko.
From Seattle Times
At the other end of the poetic spectrum are the traditional verses of Pulitzer Prize-winning Kiowa author N. Scott Momaday in “The Death of Sitting Bear: New and Selected Poems,” narrated in the author’s own magnificent, rolling baritone.
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