N. Scott Momaday on The Remembered Earth

“I want to do what I can to preserve the Earth because the Earth is in danger. I think my writing contributes to that task, and I’m proud of that and I want to continue it.”

N. Scott Momaday’s books of poetry include In the Bear's House (St. Martin's Press, 1999), In the Presence of the Sun: Stories and Poems, 1961-1991 (1992), and The Gourd Dancer (1976). His first novel, House Made of Dawn (1969) won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. He is author of several other novels, prose collections, the children's book Circle of Wonder (1994), and the play The Indolent Boys. In addition to the Pulitzer Prize, Momaday has been awarded numerous honors, including a National Medal of Arts, an Academy of American Poets Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and 12 honorary degrees.