American · 1934–2024
N. Scott Momaday won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1969 for "House Made of Dawn," a novel about a Native American veteran returning from World War II to his New Mexico pueblo. The Kiowa author is also a poet, painter, and playwright. Momaday brought Native American experience into American literary consciousness; his work treats oral tradition and written literature as continuous. He died in 2024 at ninety.