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Momaday, N. Scott 1934-

Overview
Works: 297 works in 643 publications in 14 languages and 34,304 library holdings
Genres: Western stories  Historical fiction  Biographical fiction  American poetry 
Roles: Speaker, Author of screenplay, Narrator, Interviewee, Host, Author of introduction, Lyricist, Illustrator
Classifications: ps3563.o47, 813.54
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80 editions published between and 2010 in 7 languages and held by 3,321 libraries worldwide
House Made of Dawn, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1969, tells the story of a young American Indian named Abel, home from a foreign war and caught between two worlds: one his father's, wedding him to the rhythm of the seasons and the harsh beauty of the land; the other of industrial America, a goading him into a compulsive cycle of dissipation and disgust.
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60 editions published between and 2007 in 5 languages and held by 2,766 libraries worldwide
Author presents the experience of journeying with him into his explorations of himself, his people and his heritage.
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22 editions published between and 2007 in 4 languages and held by 1,934 libraries worldwide
Returning to the land of his ancestors for his grandmother's funeral, Set is drawn to the fabled bear-boy whose story absorbs him. Then he meets a young medicine woman, and his world is turned upside down.
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31 editions published between and 1999 in English and held by 1,621 libraries worldwide
Reflections of Momaday's youth and family.
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8 editions published between and 1998 in English and held by 1,206 libraries worldwide
Exploring such themes as land, language, and identity, Momaday recalls the moving stories of his Kiowa grandfather and Kiowa ancestors, recollects a boyhood spent partly at Jemez Pueblo in New Mexico, and ponders the circumstances of history and Indian-White relations as we inherit them today. Collecting thirty-two essays and articles, The Man Made of Words attempts to fashion a definition of American literature as we have not interpreted it before and explores a greater understanding of the relationship between humankind and the physical world we inhabit.
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8 editions published between and 2009 in English and held by 1,165 libraries worldwide
In the Presence of the sun is a celebration of extraordinary works of extraordinary range. It is informed with wonder and delight, sorrow and joy, the evanescence of seasons and the persistence of the human spirit. It is a concentration of riches, a distillation of thirty years in which the creative impulse is defined, refined, and sustained. Here are the best expressions of a man who is intensely alive to the world and whose vision reaches to the horizon and beyond. Scott Momaday inhabits the element of language easily. He is at home there. He is a man made of words. A glorious testament to our Native American past, this book features over seventy poems, sixteen new stories about the great tribal shields that delve into the deeper meaning of legend, love and loss, as well as an entire section devoted to Billy the Kid. The words, poems, and stories are enhanced by Momaday's complementary images. His drawings are in turn fine, bold, provocative, and moving. Momaday's eye is penetrating, truly interpretive. His vision is original. He enables us to see in a way we have not seen before. Scott Momaday calls upon his Kiowa background to give us echoes of ancient oral tradition. His use of traditional English poetic forms is both fluent and exact. His voice is ancestral and contemporary, profoundly American and genuinely universal. Here, at his best, is one of the truly distinguished poets, storytellers, and artists of our time.
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4 editions published in in English and held by 827 libraries worldwide
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9 editions published between and 1997 in English and held by 825 libraries worldwide
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2 editions published in in English and held by 814 libraries worldwide
Readings of excerpts from and critical analysis of Leo Tolstoy's The death of Ivan Ilyich, a novel about Christian faith and the nature of life and death.
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6 editions published in in English and held by 765 libraries worldwide
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5 editions published between and 2010 in English and held by 668 libraries worldwide
N. Scott Momaday's unique connection to the beauty and spirituality of the natural world surfaces in all of his works, from his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel House Made of Dawn to his more recent collection In the Presence of the Sun. Yet In the Bear's House is Momaday's intensely personal quest to understand the spirit of the wilderness embodied in the animal image of Bear. Intimately linked to Bear since his childhood, Momaday searches for this elusive yet omnipresent spirit who is both the keeper and the manifestation of the wild mountains, rivers, and plains. Exploring themes of anguish, forgiveness, and belief, Momaday journeys from the bitter Siberian taiga to the blackening night sky to deep within his own timeless essence, and reveals Bear to be both a radiant presence and spiritual restorative.
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9 editions published between and 2001 in English and held by 548 libraries worldwide
A mute Indian child has an extraordinary experience one Christmas when, following a figure who seems to be his beloved dead grandfather, he becomes part of a circle in which he, animals, nature, and all the world join in a moment of peace and good will.
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7 editions published in in English and held by 454 libraries worldwide
The interviews in this volume span the period from 1970 to 1993. Momaday responds candidly to questions relating to his multicultural background, his views on the place of the Indian in American literature and society, his concern for conservation and an American land ethic, his theory of language and the imagination, the influences on his artistic and academic development, and his comments on specific works he has written. The reader who joins these conversations will meet in N. Scott Momaday a careful listener and an engaging, often humorous speaker whose commentaries provide a deeper vision for those interested in his life and work.
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4 editions published in in English and held by 407 libraries worldwide
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6 editions published in in English and held by 355 libraries worldwide
Published here for the first time, these plays display the author's signature talent for interweaving oral and literary traditions. The Indolent Boys recounts the 1891 tragedy of runaways from the Kiowa Boarding School who froze to death while trying to return to their families. The play explores the consequences, for Indian students and their white teachers, of the federal program to "kill the Indian and save the Man." A joyous counterpoint to this tragedy, Children of the Sun is a short children's play that explains the people's relationship to the sun. The Moon in Two Windows, a screenplay set in the early 1900s, centers on the children of defeated Indian tribes, who are forced into assimilation at Carlisle, Pennsylvania, where the U.S. government established the first off reservation boarding school. These plays are works that preserve the mythic and cultural tradition of unique tribal communities in the face of an increasingly homogeneous society.
 
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House made of dawn
Alternative Names
Mammedaty, Navarro Scotte, 1934-
Mammedaty, Novarro Scott, 1934-
Momaday, N. Scott 1934-
Momaday, Navarre S. 1934-
Momaday, Navarre Scott.
Momaday, Navarre Scott, 1934-
Momadeī, N. S. 1934-
Momadei, N. Scott 1934-
Momadėĭ, N. Skott, 1934-
Navarre Scott Momaday lived1934
Red Bluff, 1934-
Rock-Tree Boy, 1934-
russ. Namensform Momadej, Navarr Skott 1934-
Scott Momaday, N.
Scott Momaday, Navarre 1934-
Tsoai-talee, 1934-
Tsotohah, 1934-
Languages
English (651)
French (23)
German (16)
Undetermined (7)
Russian (4)
Chinese (3)
Japanese (3)
Italian (2)
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Danish (1)
Swedish (1)
Polish (1)
Dutch (1)
Czech (1)
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