Leslie Marmon Silko
Leslie Marmon Silko is an American writer. A woman of Laguna Pueblo descent, she is one of the key figures in the First Wave of what literary critic Kenneth Lincoln has called the Native American Renaissance.
Background
- Born in
- Albuquerque
- Educated at
- University of New Mexico
- Awards
- 🏆 American Book Awards🏆 MacArthur Fellows Program🏆 Native Writers' Circle of the Americas🏆 PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award
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1948
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