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Navarre Scott Momaday (born February 27, 1934) — known as N. Scott Momaday — is a Native American author of Kiowa descent. His work ''House Made of Dawn'' was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1969. Momaday received the National Medal of Arts in 2007 for his work that celebrated and preserved Native American oral and art tradition. He holds 20 honorary degrees from colleges and universities, and is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Momaday is considered the founding author in what critic Kenneth Lincoln has termed the Native American Renaissance. ''House Made of Dawn'' is considered a classic in Native American Literature. ==Background== N. Scott Momaday is the son of writer Natachee Scott Momaday and painter Al Momaday. Momaday was born on 27 February 1934 at the Kiowa-Comanche Indian Hospital in Lawton, Oklahoma, South Central United States. He is enrolled in the Kiowa Tribe of Oklahoma and also has Cherokee ancestry from his mother. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「N. Scott Momaday」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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