News and Notices from the Writing Trenches #79…

Item: Who’s N. Scott Momaday? Some of my readers might have noted his quote running across the top of this website and wondered. More energetic ones might have googled him to find that he’s of Kiowa descent (my understanding: they roamed in the same general geographic area as the Lakota, or Sioux) and the winner of the 1969 Pulitzer of House Made of Dawn. Very observant ones who also receive the Smithsonian magazine will remember him as the author of the article “The Year that the Stars Fell”...