How Old Is N. Scott Momaday? N. Scott Momaday Birthday
N. Scott Momaday was born on February 27, 1934 and is 92 years old now.
Birthday: February 27, 1934
How Old - Age: 92
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N. Scott Momaday - Biography
N. Scott Momaday was born on February 27, 1934 in Lawton, Oklahoma, USA as Navarre Scott Mammedaty. He is known for his work on House Made of Dawn, More Than Bows & Arrows (1978) and Remembered Earth: New Mexico's High Desert (2005). He has been married to Regina Heitzer since July 21, 1979. They have one child. He was previously married to Gaye Mangold.
Momaday is tenured at Stanford University, the University of Arizona, the University of California-Berkeley, and the University of California-Santa Barbara. Momaday has been a visiting professor at places such as Columbia and Princeton, while also being the first professor to teach American Literature in Moscow, Russia at Moscow State University. In 1963, Momaday began teaching at the University of California-Santa Barbara as an assistant professor of English. From 1966-1967, he focused primarily on literary research, leading him to pursue the Guggenheim Fellowship at Harvard University. Two years later, in 1969, Momaday was named Professor of English at the University of California-Berkeley. Momaday taught creative writing, and produced a new curriculum based on American Indian literature and mythology.
During the 35-plus years of Momaday’s academic career, he built up a reputation specializing in American Indian oral traditions and sacred concepts of the culture itself. The many years of schooling and teaching are evidence of Momaday’s academic success, resulting in 12 honorary degrees from several American universities. He was a Visiting Professor at the University of New Mexico during the 2014-15 academic year to teach in the Creative Writing and American Literary Studies Programs in the Department of English. Specializing in poetry and the Native oral tradition, he taught The Native American Oral Tradition.
