N. Scott Momaday
(b. 1934)

N. Scott Momaday, a Kiowa Indian, was born in Lawton, Oklahoma. His parents were teachers. Momaday was educated on Indian reservations and in 1952 entered the University of New Mexico. In addition to writing books and poetry, he was professor of English at Stanford University, California as well as the University of Arizona in Tuscon. He is best known for The Way to Rainy Mountain (1969). In 1962, he was awarded the Academy of American Poets prize for his poem "The Bear" and in 1968 his novel House Made of Dawn was awarded the Pulitzer Prize.

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