Ask the Chatbot Games & Quizzes History & Society Science & Tech Biographies Animals & Nature Geography & Travel Arts & Culture ProCon Money Videos

Leslie Marmon Silko: Quick Facts

Written and fact-checked by
The Information Architects of Encyclopaedia Britannica

The Information Architects maintain a master list of the topics included in the corpus of  Encyclopædia Britannica, and create and manage the relationships between them.
The Information Architects of Encyclopaedia Britannica

Facts

Born March 5, 1948 (age 78) • Albuquerque • New Mexico
Notable Works “Almanac of the Dead” • “Ceremony” • “Gardens in the Dunes” • “Laguna Woman” • “Oceanstory” • “Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit”
N. Scott Momaday
N. Scott Momaday
American author
default image
Linda Hogan
Native American poet and novelist
Paula Gunn Allen
Paula Gunn Allen
American author and scholar
default image
Janet Campbell Hale
Native American poet and novelist
Alice Walker smiling and wearing glasses, a beaded necklace, and a burgundy velvet top at the opening of The Color Purple in New York City.
Alice Walker
American writer
Joyce Carol Oates, 2012
Joyce Carol Oates
American author
Ha Jin
Ha Jin
Chinese American writer
default image
Chaim Grade
Yiddish author
default image
Larry Woiwode
American author
Mary Gordon
Mary Gordon
American author
default image
Reynolds Price
American writer
Jesmyn Ward
Jesmyn Ward
American author
Maggie Nelson
Maggie Nelson
American writer
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Ta-Nehisi Coates
American author
George Saunders
George Saunders
American author
Joy Harjo
Joy Harjo
American author, academic, musician and artist
Zitkala-Sa
Zitkala-Sa
American writer
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German author
Margaret Atwood smiling at the camera, wearing a red scarf with butterfly patterns and a black top, in front of an orange background with inspirational words.
Margaret Atwood
Canadian author
Graham Greene, 1982
Graham Greene
British author

Related Quizzes

Illustration of "The Lamb" from "Songs of Innocence" by William Blake, 1879. poem; poetry
A Study of Poetry
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) only confirmed photograph of Emily Dickinson. 1978 scan of a Daguerreotype. ca. 1847; in the Amherst College Archives. American poet. See Notes:
Poetry: First Lines
4:043 Dickinson, Emily: A Life of Letters, This is my letter to the world/That never wrote to me; I'll tell you how the Sun Rose/A Ribbon at a time; Hope is the thing with feathers/That perches in the soul
Famous Poets and Poetic Form