Navarre Scotte Momaday, also written Novarro Scotte Mammedaty. was born on February 27, 1934, in Lawton, Oklahoma. H…

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's doctoral dissertation was on …

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 Columbia and Princeton, while als…

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, Momaday received the Golden P…

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 state's centennial, and Governor …

He died on January 24, 2024, at the age of 89 at his home in Santa Fe, New Mexico.