Leslie Marmon Silko (born Leslie Marmon; born March 5, 1948) 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.
Books in order of publication:
Novels
Ceremony. 1977.
Almanac of the Dead. 1991.
Gardens in the Dunes. Simon and Schuster. 2000
Poetry and short story collections
Laguna Women: Poems (1974)
Western Stories (1980)
Storyteller. Henry Holt & Company. 1981
Sacred Water: Narratives and Pictures. Flood Plain Press. 1994.
Rain (1996)
Love poem and Slim Canyon (1996)
Oceanstory (2011)
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