N. Scott Momaday(1934) 1. Life and career x a novelist and a poet Momaday is a Kiow Indian, brought up on Navajo and Jemes Pueblo reservations. He was educated in the University of New Mexico and Stanford University. Following his prize-winning first novel, House Made of Dawn, he published, among other works, his memoir, The Names(1976), and his next novel, The Ancient Child(1989). Momaday likes to think of himself primarily as a poet. His is volumes of poetry include Angle of Geese (1974), The Gourd Dancer(1976), and In the Presence of the Sun: Stories and Poems(1992).N. Scott Momaday (1934-) 1.Life and career ＊a novelist and a poet. Momaday is a Kiowa Indian, brought up on Navajo and Jemes Pueblo reservations. He was educated in the University of New Mexico and Stanford University. Following his prize-winning first novel, House Made of Dawn, he published, among other works, his memoir, The Names (1976), and his next novel, The Ancient Child (1989). Momaday likes to think of himself primarily as a poet. His volumes of poetry include Angle of Geese (1974), The Gourd Dancer (1976), and In the Presence of the Sun: Stories and Poems (1992)