Artist
N. Scott Momaday
born Lawton, OK 1934
- Also known as
- Navarre Scott Momaday
- Born
- Lawton, Oklahoma, United States
- Biography
A Kiowa Indian, Momaday has explored Native American culture in his writings (fiction and non-fiction) and art. His first novel, House of Dawn won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1969. Subsequently, he has illustrated his own and others' books, and exhibited widely, including a 20-year retrospective at the Wheelright Museum in Santa Fe (1992–1993).
National Museum of American Art (CD-ROM) (New York and Washington D.C.: MacMillan Digital in cooperation with the National Museum of American Art, 1996)