Related Topics: Ceremony

BIOGRAPHY:

Born 1948 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, of mixed ancestry - by her own description Laguna, Pueblo, Mexican and white - Leslie Marmon Silko grew up on the Laguna Pueblo Reservation where members of her family had lived for generations and where she learned traditional stories and legends from female relatives. Silko's first published book is the collection of poems Laguna Woman (1974) which draws richly upon her tribal ancestry. Silko has lived and taught in New Mexico and Alaska as well as Arizona, where she currently resides in Tucson. Her much acclaimed novel Ceremony, the story of a Native American of mixed ancestry who returns as a veteran of World War II to his Laguna reservation, was published in 1977; her miscellany Storyteller, drawing upon Native American myths and combining poetry, fiction, family history and photographs was published in 1981. Silko's correspondence with the poet James Wright was edited after Wright's death by his widow, Anne Wright under the title The Delicacy and Strength of Lace (1986). Her most recent novel, is Almanac of the Dead (1991).

WEB SITE ADDRESSES:

Additional Resources on Leslie Marmon Silko and Ceremony

Biography, resources, and student commentary on Ceremony from Southwestern Literature course at New Mexico State University.

http://web.nmsu.edu/~tomlynch/swlit.silko.html

Fiction: Leslie Marmon Silko

Series of linkes about Silko
http://www.smpcollege.com/litlinks/fiction/silko.htm

Ceremony - American Literary Traditions

Links to Resources and Starting Places for Ceremony
http://www.georgetown.edu/bassr/silko.htm

Distinguished Women of Past and Present: Leslie Marmon Silko

Biography of the author, links to Ceremony and other women writers. http://www.DistinguishedWomen.com/biographies/silko-lm.html

A Comprehensive WWW Index: Leslie Marmon Silk

This work in progress attempts to provide links to all relevant information regarding Leslie Marmon Silko available on the WWW. http://serviette.unm.edu/people/ketchelx/silko/silko-home.html