By Susannah Waite, Staff Writer
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and storyteller N. Scott Momaday will give a presentation at 7 p.m. Tuesday, October 30 in the Kerr McGee Auditorium in the Meinders School of Business. The event is free to the public.
Momaday is known as one of the best storytellers in America.
He won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1969 for his novel, “House Made of Dawn.” His work spans many genres including plays, folk tales, memoirs and essays.
His other literary works include “The Way to Rainy Mountain,” “Angle of Geese,” “The Names: A Memoir,” “The Ancient Child,” “In the Presence of the Sun,” “In the Bear’s House” and “Three Plays.”
He has won a Guggenhiem Fellowship and received UNESCO’s Artist for Peace Award. Momaday was the Oklahoma Centennial State Poet Laureate in 2007.
He is the founder and chairman of The Buffalo Trust, a nonprofit foundation supporting the efforts of indigenous communities to preserve and perpetuate their cultural identity.
The Dulaney-Browne Library hosted a dedication ceremony Monday for the N. Scott Momaday Reading Room, located on the fifth floor. The area features a collection of Momaday’s books, artwork and poetry.
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