Silko, Leslie Marmon
Silko, Leslie Marmon( 1948– ),reared with her Plains Indian family in New Mexico, the place she wrote about in her first book, Laguna Woman (1974), a collection of poems. She then wrote her first novel, Ceremony (1977), dealing with a Native American who seeks to recover heritage and old lore. Storyteller (1981) collects her versions of folktales and legends, as well as her poems and photographs; her novel Almanac of the Dead (1991) again celebrates Native American values, especially reverence for ancestral land. It presents the contemporary Western United States as an ecological as well as spiritual disaster area. Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit (1996) collects essays on modern Native American life. Gardens in the Dunes (1999) is her most recent novel.
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