Navarre Scotte Momaday was born on February 27, 1934, in Lawton, Oklahoma. He was delivered in the Kiowa … See more

After receiving his Ph.D. in 1963 from Stanford University, Momaday's first book publication was The Complete Poems of Frederick Goddard Tuckerman, which he edited and wrote the "Introduction". Momaday'… See more

Momaday was tenured at Stanford University, the University of Arizona, the University of California-Berkeley, and the University of California-Santa Barbara. Momaday was a visiting professor at places such as … See more

In 1969, Momaday won the Pulitzer Prize for his novel House Made of Dawn.
In 1992, Momaday received the first Lifetime Achievement Award from the Native Writers' Circle of the Americas.
In 1993, Mo… See more

In 2007, Momaday returned to live in Oklahoma for the first time since his childhood. Though initially he moved back to Oklahoma for his wife's cancer treatment, Momaday's relocation coincided with the sta… See more