Leslie Marmon Silko ( born Leslie Marmon-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.

As a result, Silko has always identified most strongly with her Laguna ancestry, stating in an interview with Alan Velie, " I am of mixed-breed ancestry, but what I know is Laguna ".

A longtime commentator on Native American affairs, Silko has published many non-fictional articles on Native American affairs and literature.

Leslie Marmon Silko was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico to Leland Howard Marmon, a noted photographer, and Mary Virginia Leslie.

Silko grew up on the edge of pueblo society both literally – her family ’ s house was at the edge of the Laguna Pueblo reservation – and figuratively, as she was not permitted to participate in various tribal rituals or join any of the pueblo's religious societies.

Silko learned much of the traditional stories of the Laguna people from her grandmother, whom she called A ' mooh, her aunt Susie, and her grandfather Hank during her early years.

During the years 1968 to 1974, Silko wrote and published more short stories and many poems, most of which were later featured in her book Laguna Woman.

Fellow Pueblo poet Paula Gunn Allen criticized the book on this account, saying that Silko was divulging tribal secrets she did not have the right to reveal.

In " An Old-Fashioned Indian Attack in Two Parts ", first published in Geary Hobson ’ s collection The Remembered Earth ( 1978 ), Silko accused Gary Snyder of profiting from Native American culture, particularly in his collection Turtle Island, the name and theme of which was taken from Pueblo mythology.

Spurred by the success of N. Scott Momaday's Pulitzer Prize winning House Made of Dawn, Native American literature showed explosive growth during this period, known as the Native American Renaissance, through such novelists as Leslie Marmon Silko ( e. g., Ceremony ), Gerald Vizenor ( e. g., Bearheart: The Heirship Chronicles and numerous essays on Native American literature ), Louise Erdrich ( Love Medicine and several other novels that use a recurring set of characters and locations in the manner of William Faulkner ), James Welch ( e. g., Winter in the Blood ), Sherman Alexie ( e. g., The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven ), and poets Simon Ortiz and Joy Harjo.

* Storyteller ( book ), a 1981 collection of poetry and stories by Leslie Marmon Silko

The work was also heavily critiqued for its attitude towards homosexuality as Silko pens many of the major villains in the novel as gay, and for an improper interpretation and incorporation of the Popol Vuh.

However, the city is criticized in the novel Ceremony, authored by the Native American writer Leslie Marmon Silko, for the city's slums.

It was largely on the strength of this work that critic Alan Velie named Silko one of his Four Native American Literary Masters, along with N. Scott Momaday, Gerald Vizenor and James Welch.

Silko claimed Erdrich had abandoned writing about the Native American struggle for sovereignty in exchange for writing " self-referential ," postmodern fiction.

Many major American Indian novelists ( e. g. Leslie Marmon Silko, Gerald Vizenor, James Welch, Sherman Alexie and Louise Erdrich ) have cited the novel as a major inspiration for their own work.

* Velie, Alan R. " House Made of Dawn: Nobody's Protest Novel ," Four American Indian Literary Masters: N. Scott Momaday, James Welch, Leslie Marmon Silko, and Gerald Vizenor, ( University of Oklahoma Press: 1982 ) pp. 52 – 64.

Lovecraft to Leslie Marmon Silko edited by Amy H. Sturgis and David D. Oberhelman ( Mythopoeic Press, 2009: ISBN 978-1-887726-12-2 ).

Silko was an original 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.

Silko was educated at a Catholic school in Albuquerque, and went on to receive a BA from the University of New Mexico in 1969.

In 1971, she and John Silko were married.

They had a son, Kazimir Silko.

Silko garnered early literary acclaim for the short story " The Man to Send Rain Clouds ," which was awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Discovery Grant.

In 1981, Silko released Storyteller, a collection of poems and short stories, incorporating creative writing, mythology, and autobiography, which garnered favorable reception as it followed in much the same poetic form as the novel Ceremony.

The book is a collected volume of correspondence between Silko and her friend James Wright whom she met following the publication of Ceremony.

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