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Leslie Marmon Silko
American writer
Leslie Marmon Silko (born Leslie Marmon; born March 5, 1948) is an American writer.
A woman of Laguna Pueblo descent, she is one of the key figures in the First Wave of what literary critic Kenneth Lincoln has called the Native American Renaissance.
Silko was a debut recipient of the MacArthur Foundation Grant in 1981.
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the Native Writers' Circle of the Americas Lifetime Achievement Award in 1994[1] and the Robert Kirsch Award in 2020.[2] She currently resides in Tucson, Arizona.
Early life
Leslie Marmon Silko was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico to Leland Howard Marmon, a noted photographer, and Mary Virginia Leslie, a teacher, and grew up on the Laguna Pueblo reservation.[3] Her mixed-race family was of white American, Native American, and Mexican descent.
She wrote that her paternal grandmother, who was born in Montana, had a father whose family was "part Plains Indian" but that her grandmother "never