Leslie Marmon Silko

Leslie Marmon Silko was born in 1948 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, to a photographer father and a teacher mother, and grew up at the edge of the Laguna Pueblo reservation. Her family was of mixed Laguna, Mexican and white American descent. She has said that the core theme of her writing is the attempt to understand what it means to be neither white nor fully traditional. She studied English at the University of New Mexico and began law school before turning to writing and teaching. Her first novel, Ceremony (1977), tells of Tayo, a Laguna veteran of the Second World War who returns home troubled by his experiences and finds healing through traditional ceremony and story. It is regarded as a key work of the Native American Renaissance, a period of new writing by Native American authors. She later published Storyteller, a mix of poems, stories and photographs, and the novels Almanac of the Dead and Gardens in the Dunes. In 1981 she was among the first recipients of a MacArthur Fellowship. She lives in Tucson, Arizona.

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