House Made of Dawn

novel by Momaday

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American literature

  • John Smith: Map of Virginia
    In American literature: Multicultural writing

    Scott Momaday’s House Made of Dawn, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1969, James Welch’s Winter in the Blood (1974) and Fools Crow (1986), Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony (1977), and Louise Erdrich’s Love Medicine (1984), The Beet Queen (1986), and The Antelope Wife (1998) were powerful and

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discussed in biography

  • N. Scott Momaday
    In N. Scott Momaday: Fiction and Pulitzer Prize

    …publication of Momaday’s first novel, House Made of Dawn, came about after he was asked by an editor at Harper publishing house to submit a manuscript of poetry. Instead, Momaday submitted a manuscript for the company’s novel contest, and, although he was too late for the contest, his work was…

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