Leslie Marmon Silko

Leslie Marmon Silko ( born March 5, 1948 in Albuquerque, New Mexico) is an Indian- American writer.

Life

Leslie Marmon Silko is the daughter of a Mexican- Anglo -American- Indian family and grew up in the Laguna Reservation, where they country some years the local Indian School visited. Later she went to a Catholic school in Albuquerque. After high school, she studied law at the University of New Mexico and taught at universities in Alaska, New Mexico and Arizona.

She published in 1969 her first two stories Tony 's Story (PDF, 1.1 MB) and The Man to Send Rain Clouds (PDF, 1.1 MB). In 1974 she published her first book Women Laguna Poems.

Her novels draw on many subjects from the narrative tradition of the Pueblo Indians. You even stated to have grown up with the stories of her grandmother and other reserve residents older age.

She lives in Tucson, Arizona.

In 1981, she was MacArthur Fellow.

Works

• Preface to Circle of Nations - German: Keepers of Wisdom, Frederking & Thaler 1993
• Garden in the Dunes (1999) - German: Gardens in the desert, Frankfurt am Main ( 2000), ISBN 3-8077-0217-2
• Love poem and Slim Man Canyon ( 1996)
• Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit: Essays on Native American Life Today (1996 )
• Sacred Water: Narratives and Pictures (1993 )
• Yellow Woman ( 1993)
• Almanac of the Dead ( 1991) - German: Almanac of the Dead, Frankfurt am Main ( 1995), ISBN 3-453-12530-4
• Delicacy And Strength of Lace Letters ( 1986)
• Storyteller (1981 )
• Western Stories ( 1980)
• Ceremony ( 1977) - German: Stolen land will eat their hearts (1981 ), ISBN 3-293-20082-6
• Laguna Women: Poems (1974 )