The Man Made of Words (Magill’s Literary Annual 1998)
At a glance:
- Author: N. Scott Momaday
- First Published: 1997
- Type of Work: Essays and miscellaneous prose
- Genres: Nonfiction, Essays
- Subjects: Language or languages, Traveling or travelers, Autobiography, Native Americans or American Indians, Storytelling, Legends, Oral history
N. Scott Momaday, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel House Made of Dawn (1968) and other works reflecting his Native American background, indicates in a preface to The Man Made of Words that “the essays, stories, and passages in this volume . . . were written over a considerable span of time, something over thirty years” and “by different writers” (himself at different stages). Readers may consider the book a collection of “random” prose pieces, but Momaday himself sees a “unified design” in the collection, as well as “something of growth and...
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