N. Scott Momaday
Conversations with a Storyteller

7:30 p.m. | Tuesday, November 2, 2010
Meinders School of Business
N.W. 27th Street and McKinley Avenue

N. Scott Momaday is a man of several worlds; the Kiowas of his birth and blood, theNavajos and Pueblos of his youth, the classical writers and contemporary scholars of his university days. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1969 for his novel House Made of Dawn. He holds poetry above all literary forms, even though his work spans additional genres: plays, folk tales, memoirs, and essays. He views the wide and varied forms of his artistry as a personal expression of his Native American roots. Momaday's 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.

Momaday holds a Ph.D. in English and American literature from Stanford University. He taught at the University of California at Santa Barbara, University of California at Berkeley, Stanford University, and the University of Arizona. He was a visiting professor at Columbia University and Princeton University, and he was the first professor to teach American literature at the University of Moscow in Russia. He won a Guggenhiem Fellowship and recieved UNESCO's Artist for Peace Award. He 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. Most important, he is a storyteller who carries the torch of the oral tradition.

Momaday will sign books after the lecture. Full Circle Bookstore will have books available for purchase at the event.