N. Scott Momaday, whose portrayal of a disaffected World War II veteran’s journey to spiritual renewal in his novel “House Made of Dawn” won a Pulitzer Prize, the first for a Native American author, died at the age of 89.

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N. Scott Momaday, whose portrayal of a disaffected World War II veteran’s journey to spiritual renewal in his novel “House Made of Dawn” won a Pulitzer Prize, the first for a Native American author, died at the age of 89. The death was announced in a statement by his publisher, HarperCollins. Mr. Momaday also wrote critically acclaimed poetry, memoirs and essays. Navarre Scotte Momaday was an American and Kiowa novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet from Oklahoma and New Mexico.


      His novel House Made of Dawn was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1969, and is considered the first major work of the Native American Renaissance.

     

     

 

     


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