Leslie Marmon Silko

Novelist, Author

1948 –

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Who is Leslie Marmon Silko?

Leslie Marmon Silko is a Native American writer of the Laguna Pueblo tribe, and one of the key figures in the First Wave of what literary critic Kenneth Lincoln has called the Native American Renaissance.

Silko was a debut recipient of the MacArthur Foundation Grant, now known as the "Genius Grant", in 1981 and the Native Writers' Circle of the Americas Lifetime Achievement Award in 1994. She currently resides in Tucson, Arizona.

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Born
Mar 5, 1948
Albuquerque
Also known as
  • Leslie Marmon
Ethnicity
  • Mexican American
Nationality
  • United States of America
Profession
Education
  • University of New Mexico
Lived in
  • Albuquerque
  • New Mexico

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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