The public is warmly invited to this lecture and the reception to follow. Books will be sold and signed after the lecture. For more information contact: Professor Scott Lyons at lyonssr@umich.edu

Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, Native American scholar, and poet N. Scott Momaday has been hailed as “the dean of American Indian writers” by the New York Times. He crafts — in language and imagery — majestic landscapes of a sacred culture.

Named a UNESCO Artist for Peace and Oklahoma’s poet laureate, he was also a recipient of the 2007 National Medal of Arts, presented by President George W. Bush. Momaday was the first Native American to be awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his novel, House Made of Dawn, widely considered to be the start of the Native American Renaissance. His most recent volume, Again the Far Morning: New and Selected Poems, was released in 2011.

His other awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship and the “Mondello,” Italy’s highest literary honor. His works include The Way to Rainy Mountain, The Names: A Memoir, The Ancient Child, and a new collection, Three Plays, which celebrates Kiowa history and culture. He was featured in the Ken Burns documentary, The West, that showcased his masterful retelling of Kiowa history and mythology.

Sponsored by:

Dan and Carmen Brenner Family of Seattle, Washington
U-M College of Literature, Sciences, and the Arts
Native American Studies Program
Native American and Indigenous Studies Interdisciplinary Group
Helen Zell Visiting Writers Program
Department of English
Department of American Culture
Department of History
Institute for the Humanities
UMOR
School of Social Work
Department of Anthropology

Bus transportation from Detroit provided by the Department of Comparative Literature

Special thanks to American Indian Health and Family Services of Detroit and South Eastern Michigan Indians, Inc. for their assistance and support.