Oklahoma Centennial Poet Laureate N. Scott Momaday to be inducted into Oklahoma Writers Hall of Fame

Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist N. Scott Momaday will be honored at Tuesday's 13th Oklahoma Writers Hall of Fame Award Banquet at the Philbrook Museum of Art.

The event, presented by the Oklahoma Center for Poets and Writers at Oklahoma State University-Tulsa, begins at 7 p.m.

Momaday is the author of “The Way to Rainy Mountain,” “The Ancient Child,” In the Presence of the Sun: Stories and Poems,” as well as his Pulitzer-winning novel “House Made of Dawn.” His latest work is “Three Plays,” a series of three dramatic, theatrical works celebrating Kiowa history and culture.

Momaday received his Ph.D. from Stanford University and has taught at Stanford, the University of California-Berkeley and the University of Arizona. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and in 2007, he was appointed to serve as Oklahoma’s Centennial Poet Laureate by Gov. Brad Henry.

The Oklahoma Writers Hall of Fame was established to honor Oklahoma writers who have made significant contributions to American literature while living and writing in Oklahoma. Writers are nominated by the general public and selected by a jury of writers who have already been inducted.

The event will also honor Tulsa World’s nationally recognized arts and entertainment journalists who have reported and supported Oklahoma’s arts and cultural initiatives. The Tulsa World regularly provides timely coverage of the state’s theater, ballet, opera, symphony, film and literature.

The Tulsa World, the George Kaiser Family Foundation, the Oklahoma Humanities Council, the Hille Foundation and OSU-Tulsa sponsor the award banquet.