It's a real pleasure to welcome Scott Momaday here tonight.
He is a Regents Professor of English, as most of you
know, here at the University of Arizona.
I won't recite his many awards, and his many publications,
but I would like to mention two recent publications that he's
been telling us about today, because I think
they're very, very special.
Some of you know, Scott Momaday started off by writing poetry,
then turned his attention to fiction.
Subsequently published-- what would you
call the genre of The Way to Rainy Mountain,
tribal autobiography, perhaps?
Then began to paint, and most recently
has been writing plays, and I had the pleasure of attending
the reading of his play, The Indolent Boys at Harvard
University, recently this winter,
a play about the Indian boarding school experience in Oklahoma.
I also want to mention, secondly, a recent publication
of his, In The Presence of the Sun
which is a book of writing and art that he has accomplished.
A trade edition of that will be published by St Martin's Press
sometime this year.
So please join with me in welcoming Scott Momaday.
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