Leslie Marmon Silko (born 1948) is a Laguna Pueblo writer of mixed Laguna, Mexican and Anglo-American ancestry who grew up at Laguna Pueblo in New Mexico. Ceremony (1977), her first novel, made her a central figure of the Native American Renaissance. Her other works include Storyteller (1981), Almanac of the Dead (1991) and Gardens in the Dunes (1999); she received a MacArthur Fellowship in 1981.
Ceremony follows Tayo, a young man of mixed Laguna and white ancestry, who returns to the Laguna Pueblo reservation in New Mexico after the Second World War deeply ill in body and mind. In the Philippines he fought alongside his cousin Rocky, the family's favoured son, and endured the Bataan Death March; Rocky died of his wounds during the march, and Tayo could not save him.
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