Yellow Woman | Author Biography
Born in 1948 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Leslie Marmon Silko grew up on Laguna Pueblo, a Native American reservation fifty miles west of Albuquerque. The Laguna Pueblo is central to her sense of herself as a person and a writer. In The Man to Send Rain Clouds, she explains: ‘‘I grew up at Laguna Pueblo. I am of mixed-breed ancestry, but what I know is Laguna. This place I am from is everything I am as a writer and human being.’’
One of three sisters, Silko describes her childhood as ‘‘sheltered.’’ Her parents valued education, and encouraged their daughters...
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