Writer N. Scott Momaday, who is widely credited with spearheading the breakthrough of Native American literature into the mainstream, will receive the Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award, organizers of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize announced this week. A Kiowa Indian, Momaday is the author of Pulitzer Prize-winning novel House Made of Dawn (1968) and The Way to Rainy Mountain (1969).
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