1960's The Arts | House Made of Dawn

Novel

By: N. Scott Momaday

Date: 1968

Source: Momaday, N. Scott. House Made of Dawn. New York: Harper & Row, 1968, 5–9.

About the Author: N. Scott Momaday (1934–) was born in Lawton, Oklahoma. He is a Kiowa Indian but grew up with the Navaho and Jemez Pueblo traditions as well. He studied at the University of New Mexico and later earned a master's degree and a Ph.D. from Stanford University. Momaday's fiction and poetry are rich in Native American oral traditions.

Introduction

N. Scott Momaday's 1969 Pulitzer Prize for House Made of Dawn was a landmark for Native American literature and writers. The Pulitzer Prize jury explained their choice as follows: "In the words of one of the members of the jury, 'eloquence and intensity of feeling, its freshness of vision and subject, its immediacy of theme,' and because an award to its author might be...