- Won a 1969 Pulitzer Prize (Fiction), for his novel *House Made of Dawn.*
- Biography/bibliography in: "Contemporary Authors". New Revision Series, vol. 134, pages 338-344. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, 2005.
- Children (all daughters): first marriage: Cael, Jill, Brit; second marriage: Lore.
- Father of actress Jill Scott Momaday.
- He was awarded the 2007 National Medal of the Arts for his services to literature in Washington D.C.
- Oklahoma City, Oklahoma (November 2007)
- He grew up on Navajo, Apache and Pueblo reservations in Arizona and New Mexico. His father, of Kiowa heritage, was a painter, and his mother, whose background was English, French and Cherokee, was a writer.
- A member of the Kiowa tribe, he was the first Native American to win a Pulitzer Prize.
- He earned a bachelor's degree in political science from the University of New Mexico. At Stanford, he received a master's degree and a PhD, both in English literature.
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