Al momaday biography

1968 novel by N. Scott Momaday

House Made of Dawn is a 1968 novel by N. Scott Momaday, widely credited as leading the way for the breakthrough of Native American literature into the mainstream.

It was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1969, and has also been noted for its significance in Native American anthropology.^[2]

Background

With 198 pages, House Made of Dawn was conceived first as a series of poems, and then replanned as stories, and finally shaped into a novel.

It is based largely on Momaday's firsthand knowledge of life at Jemez Pueblo.

Al momaday biography

Like the novel's protagonist, Abel, Momaday lived both inside and outside of mainstream society, growing up on reservations and later attending school and teaching at major universities. In the novel Momaday combines his personal experiences with his imagination—something his father, Al Momaday, and his mother taught him to do, according to his memoirThe Names.

Details in the novel corre