Leslie Marmon Silko

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March 05, 1948 in The United States

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Leslie Marmon Silko (born Leslie Marmon on March 5, 1948 in Albuquerque, New Mexico) is a Native American writer of the Laguna Pueblo tribe, and one of the key figures in the second wave of what Kenneth Lincoln has called the Native American Renaissance. She received the MacArthur Foundation "Genius" Grant in 1981.

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Average rating: 3.77 · 7799 ratings · 823 reviews · 15 distinct works

	Ceremony 368 avg rating — 5156 ratings — published 1977 — 16 editions	My rating:
	Almanac of the Dead 397 avg rating — 910 ratings — published 1991 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Storyteller 397 avg rating — 454 ratings — published 1980 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Gardens in the Dunes 383 avg rating — 392 ratings — published 1999 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit 391 avg rating — 227 ratings — published 1993 — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Turquoise Ledge: A Memoir 340 avg rating — 105 ratings — published 2010 — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Delicacy and Strength of Lace: Letters Between Leslie Marmon Silko and James Wright by Leslie Marmon Silko, James Wright 454 avg rating — 87 ratings — published 1985 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Laguna Woman 384 avg rating — 19 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:
	Oceanstory 373 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2011	My rating:
	Sacred Water 425 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1993 — 3 editions	My rating:

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“I will tell you something about stories . . . They aren't just entertainment. Don't be fooled. They are all we have, you see, all we have to fight off illness and death.”
― Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony

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“When someone dies, you don't get over it by forgetting; you get over it by remembering, and you are aware that no person is ever truly lost or gone once they have been in our life and loved us, as we have loved them.”
― Leslie Marmon Silko

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“But as long as you remember what you have seen, then nothing is gone. As long as you remember, it is part of this story we have together.”
― Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony

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