N. Scott Momaday

Of Kiowa, Scottish, French, and Cherokee descent, N. Scott Momaday at the age of six months was given the name “Rock Tree Boy” by a Kiowa elder. Momaday published in 1968 his first novel, House Made of Dawn—it earned him a Pulitzer Prize—and in 1974 his first poetry collection, Angle of Geese and Other Poems. “When I was twelve years old,” he said in an interview, “I was, like Alexander, given a horse. There the comparison ends, but that horse meant everything to me. It was one of my great glories.”