The Man Made of Words

N. Scott Momaday's voice has been one of the most remarkable on the American literary landscape for over a generation. Whether describing the clap of thunder above or the chirp of a grasshopper below, he sings of lands now lost and destinies still unknown.
The Man Made of Words is a spiritual and wise work that celebrates the glorious truth that our sacred tree is no longer dead. When N. Scott Momaday won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1969, for his novel House Made of Dawn, Native storytelling had only just begun to break the color line of American literature. The Man Made of Words is, therefore, the embodiment of Momaday's pilgrimage, a book that shows through essays, allegorical stories, and autobiographical reminiscences how Momaday became at the first recognized Native voice of this centu