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

Wednesday, October 24, 2007

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

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

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 that celebrate Kiowa history and culture.

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

The Oklahoma Writers Hall of Fame was established to honor Oklahoma writers who have made major 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 the Tulsa World’s nationally recognized arts and entertainment journalists for their reporting and support of 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 award banquet is sponsored by the Tulsa World, The George Kaiser Family Foundation, Oklahoma Humanities Council, the Hille Foundation and OSU-Tulsa. For more information, visit www.poetsandwriters.okstate.edu .