id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-5543 N. Scott Momaday - Wikipedia .html text/html 4543 685 74 His novel House Made of Dawn was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1969, and is considered the first major work of the Native American Renaissance. Scott Momaday was one year old, his family moved to Arizona, where both his father and mother became teachers on the reservation.[2] Growing up in Arizona allowed Momaday to experience not only his father's Kiowa traditions but also those of other southwest Native Americans including the Navajo, Apache, and Pueblo traditions.[2] In 1946, a twelve-year-old Momaday moved to Jemez Pueblo, New Mexico, living there with his parents until his senior year of high school.[3] After high school, Momaday attended the University of New Mexico, graduating in 1958 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English.[3] He continued his education at Stanford University where, in 1963, he was awarded a Ph.D. in English Literature.[3] Writing for The Southern Review, John Finlay described it as Momaday's best work, and that it should "earn him a permanent place in our literature."[8] The poems in Angle of Geese were later included in an expanded collection, The Gourd Dancer (1976), which also included passages excised from The Way to Rainy Mountain. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-5543.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-5543.txt