N. Scott Momaday - Wikipedia N. Scott Momaday From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search American author and academic N. Scott Momaday Momaday receiving the National Medal of Arts from George W. Bush in 2007 Born Navarre Scott Momaday (1934-02-27) February 27, 1934 (age 86) Lawton, Oklahoma Occupation Writer Nationality Kiowa Alma mater University of New Mexico (B.A.) Stanford University (Ph.D.) Genre Fiction Literary movement Native American Renaissance Notable works House Made of Dawn (1968) Navarre Scott Momaday[1] (born February 27, 1934) is a Kiowa novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet. 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. His follow-up work The Way to Rainy Mountain blended folklore with memoir. Momaday received the National Medal of Arts in 2007 for his work's celebration and preservation of indigenous oral and art tradition. He holds twenty honorary degrees from colleges and universities, and is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Contents 1 Background 2 Literary career 3 Academic career 4 Bibliography 5 Awards 6 Recent activities 7 Quotes 8 See also 9 Notes 10 External links Background[edit] Navarre Scott Momaday was born on February 27, 1934 in Lawton, Oklahoma.[2] He was delivered in the Kiowa and Comanche Indian Hospital, registered as having seven-eighths Indian blood.[3] N. Scott Momaday's mother was Mayme 'Natachee' Scott Momaday (1913–1996), who claimed to be of partial Cherokee descent,[4][5] born in Fairview, Kentucky,[6] while his father was Alfred Morris Momaday, who was a full-blooded Kiowa.[7] His mother was a writer and his father a painter.[2] In 1935, when N. 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] Literary career[edit] Momaday's first book, The Complete Poems of Frederick Goddard Tuckerman based on his dissertation, was published in 1965. His novel House Made of Dawn led to the breakthrough of Native American literature into the American mainstream after the novel was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1969. House Made of Dawn was the first novel of the Native American Renaissance, a term coined by literary critic Kenneth Lincoln in the Native American Renaissance. The work remains a classic of Native American literature. As other indigenous American writers began to gain notoriety, Momaday turned to poetry, releasing a small collection called Angle of Geese. 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. Most of Momaday's subsequent work has blended poetry and prose. In 2007, Momaday returned to live in Oklahoma for the first time since his childhood. Though initially for his wife's cancer treatment, Momaday's relocation coincided with the state's centennial, and Governor Brad Henry appointed him as the sixteenth Oklahoma Poet Laureate, succeeding Nimrod International Journal editor Francine Leffler Ringold. Momaday held the position for two years.[9] Academic career[edit] Momaday is tenured at Stanford University, the University of Arizona, the University of California-Berkeley, and the University of California-Santa Barbara.[10] Momaday has been a visiting professor at places such as Columbia and Princeton, while also being the first professor to teach American Literature in Moscow, Russia at Moscow State University.[10] In 1963, Momaday began teaching at the University of California-Santa Barbara as an assistant professor of English. From 1966-1967, he focused primarily on literary research, leading him to pursue the Guggenheim Fellowship at Harvard University.[11] Two years later, in 1969, Momaday was named Professor of English at the University of California-Berkeley. Momaday taught creative writing, and produced a new curriculum based on American Indian literature and mythology.[11] During the 35-plus years of Momaday’s academic career, he built up a reputation specializing in American Indian oral traditions and sacred concepts of the culture itself.[10] The many years of schooling and teaching are evidence of Momaday’s academic success, resulting in 12 honorary degrees from several American universities.[10] He was a Visiting Professor at the University of New Mexico during the 2014-15 academic year to teach in the Creative Writing and American Literary Studies Programs in the Department of English. Specializing in poetry and the Native oral tradition, he taught The Native American Oral Tradition. Bibliography[edit] The Journey of Tai-me (1967), folklore House Made of Dawn (1968), novel The Way to Rainy Mountain (1969) (illustrated by his father, Alfred Momaday), folklore Angle of Geese (1974), poetry chapbook The Gourd Dancer (1976), poetry The Names: A Memoir (1976), memoir The Ancient Child (1989), novel In the Presence of the Sun (1992), stories and poetry The Native Americans: Indian County (1993) The Indolent Boys (Play) Premiered on the Syracuse Stage during the 1993-94 season.[12] Circle of Wonder: A Native American Christmas Story (1994), children's book The Man Made of Words: Essays, Stories, Passages (1997), stories and essays In the Bear's House (1999), mixed media Four Arrows & Magpie: A Kiowa Story (2006), children's book Three Plays: The Indolent Boys, Children of the Sun, and The Moon in Two Windows (2007), plays Again the Far Morning: New and Selected Poems (2011), poetry The Death of Sitting Bear (2020), poetry Earth Keeper: Reflections on the American Land (2020), poetry Awards[edit] In 1969, Momaday won the Pulitzer Prize for his novel "House Made of Dawn" (Pulitzer.org). Momaday was featured in the Ken Burns and Stephen Ives documentary, The West (1996), for his masterful retelling of Kiowa history and legend. He was also featured in PBS documentaries concerning boarding schools, Billy the Kid, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn. Momaday was honored as the Oklahoma Centennial Poet Laureate[13] In 1992, Momaday received the first Lifetime Achievement Award from the Native Writers' Circle of the Americas.[14] In 1993, Momaday received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement.[15][16][17][18] In 2000, Momaday received the St. Louis Literary Award from the Saint Louis University Library Associates.[19][20] Awarded a National Medal of Arts in 2007 by President George W. Bush.[21] Momaday received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from the University of Illinois at Chicago on May 9, 2010. In 2018, Momaday won a Lifetime Achievement Award[22] from the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards,[23] the only juried prize to honor the best books addressing racism and questions of equity and diversity. The same year, Momaday became one of the inductees in the first induction ceremony held by the National Native American Hall of Fame.[24] In 2019, Momaday was awarded the Ken Burns American Heritage Prize.[25] In 2019 Momaday received the Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize.[26] Recent activities[edit] Momaday is the founder of the Rainy Mountain Foundation[27] and Buffalo Trust, a nonprofit organization working to preserve Native American cultures.[28] Momaday, a known watercolor painter, designed and illustrated the book, In the Bear's House. Quotes[edit] "I sometimes think the contemporary white American is more culturally deprived than the Indian."[29] "I simply kept my goal in mind and persisted. Perseverance is a large part of writing."[29] "Anything is bearable if you can make a story out of it."[30] "A word has power in it of itself. It comes from nothing into sound and meaning; it gives origin to all things."[30] "The highest human purpose is always to reinvent and celebrate the sacred."[30] "For the storyteller, for the arrowmaker, language does indeed represent the only chance for survival."[30] "Indians are marvelous story tellers. In some ways, that oral tradition is stronger than the written tradition."[30] "In the beginning was the word, and it was spoken."[30] See also[edit] Novels portal Poetry portal Poets Laureate of Oklahoma List of writers from peoples indigenous to the Americas Native American Renaissance Native American Studies Notes[edit] ^ Accent on first syllable of Momaday. ^ a b c d "N. Scott Momaday Biography and Interview". achievement.org. American Academy of Achievement. ^ a b c d "N. Scott Momaday Biography - eNotes.com". eNotes. Retrieved 2016-11-18. ^ "In terms of blood quantum, a standard (albeit a problematic one, but the one used by the United States government and many tribal governments), records list Momaday's [...] mother as 7/8 white and 1/8 Cherokee. While only 1/8 Cherokee "by degree," Momaday's mother considered herself an American Indian." Jim Charles, Reading, Learning, Teaching N. Scott Momaday (Peter Lang, 2007), p. 29. ^ See Kay Bonetti, "N. Scott Momaday: An Interview," in Conversations with N. Scott Momaday, edited by Matthias Schubnell (University Press of Mississippi, 1997), p. 133. ^ Nagin, Emily (Winter 2016). "Irredeemable Stories? Native American Children's Literature and the Radical Potential of Commercial Literary Forms". Studies in American Indian Literatures. 28 (4): 1–24. doi:10.5250/studamerindilite.28.4.0001. JSTOR 10.5250/studamerindilite.28.4.0001. Momaday's mother was born in 1913 in Fairview, Kentucky, and her given name was Mayme Natachee Scott ... ^ "Momaday, N. Scott - Voices of Oklahoma". Voices of Oklahoma. Retrieved 2016-11-18. ^ Finlay, John (July 1975). "N. Scott Momaday's Angle of Geese". The Southern Review. 11 (3): 658. ProQuest 1291572481. ^ Holliday, Shawn (2015). The Oklahoma Poets Laureate (1st ed.). Norman, OK: Mongrel Empire Press. p. 251. ISBN 978-0-9903204-3-2. ^ a b c d "PBS - THE WEST - N. Scott Momaday". pbs.org. Retrieved 2016-11-19. ^ a b "404 | Encyclopedia.com". encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 2016-11-19. ^ Syracuse Stage 1993-94 ^ Van Deventer, M. J. "Bush adding to poet's honors." Daily Oklahoman. 15 Nov 2007 (retrieved 14 Dec 2009) ^ List of NWCA Lifetime Achievement Awards, accessed 6 Aug 2010. ^ "Golden Plate Awardees of the American Academy of Achievement". www.achievement.org. American Academy of Achievement. ^ Warren, Ellen (June 14, 2004). "A meeting of the minds, Hollywood A-listers, Nobel Prize winners, Mayor Daley and myriad other geniuses rub elbows at International Achievement Summit" (PDF). Chicago Tribune. ^ "2005 Summit Highlights Photo". 2005. Academy members: Pulitzer Prize-winning author N. Scott Momaday and Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Prize recipient. ^ "Suzan-Lori Parks Biography Photo". 2007. Suzan-Lori Parks receives the American Academy of Achievement’s Golden Plate Award from the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and novelist N. Scott Momaday at the 2007 International Achievement Summit in Washington, D.C. ^ "Website of St. Louis Literary Award". Archived from the original on 2016-08-23. Retrieved 2016-07-25. ^ Saint Louis University Library Associates. "Recipients of the St. Louis Literary Award". Archived from the original on July 31, 2016. Retrieved July 25, 2016. ^ President Bush Announces 2007 National Medal of Arts and National Humanities Medal Recipients ^ "House Made of Dawn". ^ "Home". ^ "National Native American Hall of Fame names first twelve historic inductees". Indian Country Today. Newsmaven.io. Retrieved 2018-10-22. ^ "Ken Burns American Heritage Prize to be awarded to Dr. N. Scott Momaday". Digital Journal. 7 Jan 2019. Retrieved 8 January 2019. ^ Sewell, Dan (July 22, 2019). "Native American author honored with peace prize". WCPO. Associated Press. ^ "Santa Fe NM 87505 - Tax Exempt Organizations." Tax Exempt World. (retrieved 14 Dec 2009) ^ Staff, January 2009, "N. Scott Momaday", Smithsonian Q&A, Vol. 39, Issue 10, 25 pgs., retrieved 04-25-2009 ^ a b "N. Scott Momaday Biography and Interview". achievement.org. American Academy of Achievement. ^ a b c d e f "TOP 25 QUOTES BY N. SCOTT MOMADAY | A-Z Quotes". A-Z Quotes. Retrieved 2016-11-19. External links[edit] Works by or about N. Scott Momaday in libraries (WorldCat catalog) N. Scott Momaday: Words from a Bear, 2019 PBS documentary Western American Literature Journal: N. Scott Momaday N. Scott Momaday from the Modern American Poetry site The Buffalo Trust - Momaday's non-profit charitable foundation Perspectives in American Literature - Momaday Bibliography Interview with Momaday at modernamericanpoetry.org Article about Momaday's selection as Poet Laureate of Oklahoma "N. Scott Momaday" by Martha Scott Trimble in the Western Writers Series Digital Editions Voices of Oklahoma interview with N. Scott Momaday. First person interview conducted on December 21, 2010, with N. Scott Momaday. Native paths: American Indian art from the collection of Charles and Valerie Diker, an exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (fully available online as PDF), which contains an essay by N. Scott Momaday (see table of contents) N. Scott Momaday Papers .Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. Awards for N. Scott Momaday v t e Recipients of the Mondello Prize Single Prize for Literature: Bartolo Cattafi (1975) • Achille Campanile (1976) • Günter Grass (1977) Special Jury Prize: Denise McSmith (1975) • Stefano D'Arrigo (1977) • Jurij Trifonov (1978) • Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz (1979) • Pietro Consagra (1980) • Ignazio Buttitta, Angelo Maria e Ela Ripellino (1983) • Leonardo Sciascia (1985) • Wang Meng (1987) • Mikhail Gorbaciov (1988) • Peter Carey, José Donoso, Northrop Frye, Jorge Semprún, Wole Soyinka, Lu Tongliu (1990) • Fernanda Pivano (1992) • Associazione Scrittori Cinesi (1993) • Dong Baoucum, Fan Boaci, Wang Huanbao, Shi Peide, Chen Yuanbin (1995) • Xu Huainzhong, Xiao Xue, Yu Yougqnan, Qin Weinjung (1996) • Khushwant Singh (1997) • Javier Marías (1998) • Francesco Burdin (2001) • Luciano Erba (2002) • Isabella Quarantotti De Filippo (2003) • Marina Rullo (2006) • Andrea Ceccherini (2007) • Enrique Vila-Matas (2009) • Francesco Forgione (2010) First narrative work: Carmelo Samonà (1978) • Fausta Garavini (1979) First poetic work: Giovanni Giuga (1978) • Gilberto Sacerdoti (1979) Prize for foreign literature: Milan Kundera (1978) • N. Scott Momaday (1979) • Juan Carlos Onetti (1980) • Tadeusz Konwicki (1981) Prize for foreign poetry: Jannis Ritsos (1978) • Joseph Brodsky (1979) • Juan Gelman (1980) • Gyula Illyés (1981) First work: Valerio Magrelli (1980) • Ferruccio Benzoni, Stefano Simoncelli, Walter Valeri, Laura Mancinelli (1981) • Jolanda Insana (1982) • Daniele Del Giudice (1983) • Aldo Busi (1984) • Elisabetta Rasy, Dario Villa (1985) • Marco Lodoli, Angelo Mainardi (1986) • Marco Ceriani, Giovanni Giudice (1987) • Edoardo Albinati, Silvana La Spina (1988) • Andrea Canobbio, Romana Petri (1990) • Anna Cascella (1991) • Marco Caporali, Nelida Milani (1992) • Silvana Grasso, Giulio Mozzi (1993) • Ernesto Franco (1994) • Roberto Deidier (1995) • Giuseppe Quatriglio, Tiziano Scarpa (1996) • Fabrizio Rondolino (1997) • Alba Donati (1998) • Paolo Febbraro (1999) • Evelina Santangelo (2000) • Giuseppe Lupo (2001) • Giovanni Bergamini, Simona Corso (2003) • Adriano Lo Monaco (2004) • Piercarlo Rizzi (2005) • Francesco Fontana (2006) • Paolo Fallai (2007) • Luca Giachi (2008) • Carlo Carabba (2009) • Gabriele Pedullà (2010) Foreign author: Alain Robbe-Grillet (1982) • Thomas Bernhard (1983) • Adolfo Bioy Casares (1984) • Bernard Malamud (1985) • Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1986) • Doris Lessing (1987) • V. S. Naipaul (1988) • Octavio Paz (1989) • Christa Wolf (1990) • Kurt Vonnegut (1991) • Bohumil Hrabal (1992) • Seamus Heaney (1993) • J. M. Coetzee (1994) • Vladimir Vojnovič (1995) • David Grossman (1996) • Philippe Jaccottet (1998) • Don DeLillo (1999) • Aleksandar Tišma (2000) • Nuruddin Farah (2001) • Per Olov Enquist (2002) • Adunis (2003) • Les Murray (2004) • Magda Szabó (2005) • Uwe Timm (2006) • Bapsi Sidhwa (2007) • Viktor Erofeev (2009) • Edmund White (2010) • Javier Cercas (2011) • Elizabeth Strout (2012) • Péter Esterházy (2013) • Joe R. Lansdale (2014) • Emmanuel Carrère (2015) • Marilynne Robinson (2016) • Cees Nooteboom (2017) Italian Author: Alberto Moravia (1982) • Vittorio Sereni alla memoria (1983) • Italo Calvino (1984) • Mario Luzi (1985) • Paolo Volponi (1986) • Luigi Malerba (1987) • Oreste del Buono (1988) • Giovanni Macchia (1989) • Gianni Celati, Emilio Villa (1990) • Andrea Zanzotto (1991) • Ottiero Ottieri (1992) • Attilio Bertolucci (1993) • Luigi Meneghello (1994) • Fernando Bandini, Michele Perriera (1995) • Nico Orengo (1996) • Giuseppe Bonaviri, Giovanni Raboni (1997) • Carlo Ginzburg (1998) • Alessandro Parronchi (1999) • Elio Bartolini (2000) • Roberto Alajmo (2001) • Andrea Camilleri (2002) • Andrea Carraro, Antonio Franchini, Giorgio Pressburger (2003) • Maurizio Bettini, Giorgio Montefoschi, Nelo Risi (2004) • pr. Raffaele Nigro, sec. Maurizio Cucchi, ter. Giuseppe Conte (2005) • pr. Paolo Di Stefano, sec. Giulio Angioni (2006) • pr. Mario Fortunato, sec. Toni Maraini, ter. Andrea Di Consoli (2007) • pr. Andrea Bajani, sec. Antonio Scurati, ter. Flavio Soriga (2008) • pr. Mario Desiati, sec. Osvaldo Guerrieri, ter. Gregorio Scalise (2009) • pr. Lorenzo Pavolini, sec. Roberto Cazzola, ter. (2010) • pr. Eugenio Baroncelli, sec. Milo De Angelis, ter. Igiaba Scego (2011) • pr. Edoardo Albinati, sec. Paolo Di Paolo, ter. Davide Orecchio (2012) • pr. Andrea Canobbio, sec. Valerio Magrelli, ter. Walter Siti (2013) • pr. Irene Chias, sec. Giorgio Falco, ter. Francesco Pecoraro (2014) • pr. Nicola Lagioia, sec. Letizia Muratori, ter. Marco Missiroli (2015) • pr. Marcello Fois, sec. Emanuele Tonon, ter. Romana Petri (2016) • pr. Stefano Massini, sec. Alessandro Zaccuri, ter. Alessandra Sarchi (2017) "Five Continents" Award: Kōbō Abe, Tahar Ben Jelloun, Germaine Greer, Wilson Harris, José Saramago (1992) • Kenzaburō Ōe (1993) • Stephen Spender (1994) • Thomas Keneally, Alberto Arbasino (1996) • Margaret Atwood, André Brink, David Malouf, Romesh Gunesekera, Christoph Ransmayr (1997) "Palermo bridge for Europe" Award: Dacia Maraini (1999), Premio Palermo ponte per il Mediterraneo Alberto Arbasino (2000) "Ignazio Buttitta" Award: Nino De Vita (2003) • Attilio Lolini (2005) • Roberto Rossi Precerotti (2006) • Silvia Bre (2007) Supermondello Tiziano Scarpa (2009) • Michela Murgia (2010) • Eugenio Baroncelli (2011) • Davide Orecchio (2012) • Valerio Magrelli (2013) • Giorgio Falco (2014) • Marco Missiroli (2015) • Romana Petri (2016) • Stefano Massini (2017) Special award of the President: Ibrahim al-Koni (2009) • Emmanuele Maria Emanuele (2010) • Antonio Calabrò (2011) Poetry prize: Antonio Riccardi (2010) Translation Award: Evgenij Solonovic (2010) Identity and dialectal literatures award: Gialuigi Beccaria e Marco Paolini (2010) Essays Prize: Marzio Barbagli (2010) Mondello for Multiculturality Award: Kim Thúy (2011) Mondello Youths Award: Claudia Durastanti (2011) • Edoardo Albinati (2012) • Alessandro Zaccuri (2017) "Targa Archimede", Premio all'Intelligenza d'Impresa: Enzo Sellerio (2011) Prize for Literary Criticism: Salvatore Silvano Nigro (2012) • Maurizio Bettini (2013) • Enrico Testa (2014) • Ermanno Cavazzoni (2015) • Serena Vitale (2016) • Antonio Prete (2017) Award for best motivation: Simona Gioè (2012) Special award for travel literature: Marina Valensise (2013) Special Award 40 Years of Mondello: Gipi (2014) v t e National Medal of Arts recipients (2000s) 2000 Maya Angelou Eddy Arnold Mikhail Baryshnikov Benny Carter Chuck Close Horton Foote Lewis Manilow National Public Radio, cultural programming division Claes Oldenburg Itzhak Perlman Harold Prince Barbra Streisand 2001 Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation Rudolfo Anaya Johnny Cash Kirk Douglas Helen Frankenthaler Judith Jamison Yo-Yo Ma Mike Nichols 2002 Florence Knoll Bassett Trisha Brown Philippe de Montebello Uta Hagen Lawrence Halprin Al Hirschfeld George Jones Ming Cho Lee William "Smokey" Robinson 2003 Austin City Limits Beverly Cleary Rafe Esquith Suzanne Farrell Buddy Guy Ron Howard Mormon Tabernacle Choir Leonard Slatkin George Strait Tommy Tune 2004 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Ray Bradbury Carlisle Floyd Frederick Hart Anthony Hecht John Ruthven Vincent Scully Twyla Tharp 2005 Louis Auchincloss James DePreist Paquito D'Rivera Robert Duvall Leonard Garment Ollie Johnston Wynton Marsalis Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Tina Ramirez Dolly Parton 2006 William Bolcom Cyd Charisse Roy DeCarava Wilhelmina Holladay Interlochen Center for the Arts Erich Kunzel Preservation Hall Jazz Band Gregory Rabassa Viktor Schreckengost Ralph Stanley 2007 Morten Lauridsen N. Scott Momaday Craig Noel Roy Neuberger Les Paul Henry Z. Steinway George Tooker Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival (University of Idaho) Andrew Wyeth 2008 Stan Lee Richard M. Sherman Robert B. Sherman Olivia de Havilland Hank Jones Jesús Moroles Ford's Theatre Society Fisk Jubilee Singers, (Fisk University) José Limón Dance Foundation The Presser Foundation 2009 Bob Dylan Clint Eastwood Milton Glaser Maya Lin Rita Moreno Jessye Norman Joseph P. Riley Jr. Frank Stella Michael Tilson Thomas John Williams Oberlin Conservatory of Music School of American Ballet Complete list 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s v t e Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 1918–1925 His Family by Ernest Poole (1918) The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington (1919) The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (1921) Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington (1922) One of Ours by Willa Cather (1923) The Able McLaughlins by Margaret Wilson (1924) So Big by Edna Ferber (1925) 1926–1950 Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis (declined) (1926) Early Autumn by Louis Bromfield (1927) The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder (1928) Scarlet Sister Mary by Julia Peterkin (1929) Laughing Boy by Oliver La Farge (1930) Years of Grace by Margaret Ayer Barnes (1931) The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck (1932) The Store by Thomas Sigismund Stribling (1933) Lamb in His Bosom by Caroline Pafford Miller (1934) Now in November by Josephine Winslow Johnson (1935) Honey in the Horn by Harold L. Davis (1936) Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (1937) The Late George Apley by John Phillips Marquand (1938) The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1939) The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (1940) In This Our Life by Ellen Glasgow (1942) Dragon's Teeth by Upton Sinclair (1943) Journey in the Dark by Martin Flavin (1944) A Bell for Adano by John Hersey (1945) All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren (1947) Tales of the South Pacific by James A. Michener (1948) Guard of Honor by James Gould Cozzens (1949) The Way West by A. B. Guthrie Jr. (1950) 1951–1975 The Town by Conrad Richter (1951) The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk (1952) The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway (1953) A Fable by William Faulkner (1955) Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor (1956) A Death in the Family by James Agee (1958) The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters by Robert Lewis Taylor (1959) Advise and Consent by Allen Drury (1960) To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (1961) The Edge of Sadness by Edwin O'Connor (1962) The Reivers by William Faulkner (1963) The Keepers of the House by Shirley Ann Grau (1965) The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter by Katherine Anne Porter (1966) The Fixer by Bernard Malamud (1967) The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron (1968) House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday (1969) The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford by Jean Stafford (1970) Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner (1972) The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty (1973) No award given (1974) The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara (1975) 1976–2000 Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow (1976) No award given (1977) Elbow Room by James Alan McPherson (1978) The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever (1979) The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer (1980) A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole (1981) Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike (1982) The Color Purple by Alice Walker (1983) Ironweed by William Kennedy (1984) Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie (1985) Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry (1986) A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor (1987) Beloved by Toni Morrison (1988) Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler (1989) The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos (1990) Rabbit at Rest by John Updike (1991) A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley (1992) A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler (1993) The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx (1994) The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields (1995) Independence Day by Richard Ford (1996) Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser (1997) American Pastoral by Philip Roth (1998) The Hours by Michael Cunningham (1999) Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri (2000) 2001–present The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon (2001) Empire Falls by Richard Russo (2002) Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (2003) The Known World by Edward P. Jones (2004) Gilead by Marilynne Robinson (2005) March by Geraldine Brooks (2006) The Road by Cormac McCarthy (2007) The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz (2008) Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout (2009) Tinkers by Paul Harding (2010) A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan (2011) No award given (2012) The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson (2013) The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt (2014) All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr (2015) The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen (2016) The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead (2017) Less by Andrew Sean Greer (2018) The Overstory by Richard Powers (2019) The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead (2020) Authority control BIBSYS: 90090988 BNE: XX1035679 BNF: cb121180869 (data) GND: 118811681 ISNI: 0000 0001 2032 748X LCCN: n50003752 NDL: 00450312 NKC: xx0000088 NLA: 35358303 NLI: 000400597 NTA: 07467403X PLWABN: 9810544918605606 SELIBR: 318569 SNAC: w6t72hw9 SUDOC: 027559076 Trove: 924415 ULAN: 500127151 VIAF: 110439963 WorldCat Identities: lccn-n50003752 v t e Poets Laureate of Oklahoma Violet McDougal (1923–1931) Paul Kroeger (1931–1940) Jennie Harris Oliver (1940–1942) Della Ione Young (1943–1944) Anne Semple (1944–1945) Bess Truitt (1945–1946) Delbert Davis (1963–1965) Rudolph N. Hill (1966–1970) Leslie A. McRill (1970–1977) Maggie Culver Fry (1977–1995) Carol Hamilton (1995–1997) Betty Lou Shipley (1997–1998) Joe Kreger (1998–2001) Carl Sennhenn (2001–2003) Francine Ringold (2003–2007) N. 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