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Leslie Marmon Silko
American writer
Leslie Marmon Silko (born Leslie Marmon; born March 5, ) 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 the Native Writers' Circle of the Americas Lifetime Achievement Award in [1] and the Robert Kirsch Award in [2] She currently resides in Tucson, Arizona.
Early life
[edit]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 knew" which tribe she was descended from, and that her grandmother's father was "half German" with an "Indian" mother. She also wrote that her maternal grandmother was part Cherokee "through her Grandfather Wood" who was from Kentucky.[4]
Silko grew up on the edge of Laguna Pueblo society both literal
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Leslie Marmon Silko (born March 5, ) is a Native American poet and novelist of the Laguna Pueblo tribe, a key figure in the 2nd wave of what Kenneth Lincoln has called the Native American Renaissance.
Life[]
Silko was born Leslie Marmon in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She is 1/4&#;Laguna Pueblo Native American (a Keres speaking tribe), the rest of her ancestry being European American and Mexican American. Her father is Lee Marmon, a notable photographer. She grew up on the edge of pueblo society both literally – her family’s house was at the edge of the reservation – and figuratively, not being allowed to participate in various rituals or join many of the pueblo societies. However, she was educated by her grandmother and aunts in the traditional storie of the Laguna people, and as a result always identified most strongly with the native part of her ancestry, saying in an interview with Alan Velie that "I am of mixed-breed ancestry, but what I know is Laguna".
She was educated at Catholic school in Albuquerque, and went on to receive a B.A. from the University of New Mexico in
In , she married Richard C. Chapman, and together, they had a son, Robert Chapman. However the marriage was unsuccessful and they divorced in A subsequent marriage to John Silko in also ended i