Leslie Silko

Author details

Aliases:
Leslie M. Silko, Leslie Silko, レスリー・マーモン シルコウ, and 2 others Leslie Marmon Silko, レスリー・M シルコウ
Born:
Jan. 24, 1948

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Leslie Marmon Silko (born Leslie Marmon; born March 5, 1948) is an American writer. A Laguna Pueblo Indian woman, 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. the Native Writers' Circle of the Americas Lifetime Achievement Award in 1994 and the Robert Kirsch Award in 2020. She currently resides in Tucson, Arizona.

Books by Leslie Silko

Leslie Silko: Ceremony (2006, Penguin Books) 4 stars

Ceremony

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Leslie Silko: Almanac of the Dead (1992, Penguin Books) 5 stars

Almanac of the Dead

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Vine Deloria Jr., Leslie Silko, George E. Tinker: God is Red (Paperback, 2003, Fulcrum Pub.) 3 stars

God is Red

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Leslie Silko: Yellow woman and a beauty of the spirit (1997, Simon & Schuster)

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Yellow woman and a beauty of the spirit

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Louisa May Alcott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Thomas Jefferson, Esther Forbes, Sinclair Lewis, Dorothy Parker, Denise Levertov, Mark Twain, Washington Irving, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Tom Wolfe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Abraham Lincoln, Kurt Vonnegut, N. Scott Momaday, Ray Bradbury, William Carlos Williams, Maxine Kumin, Elizabeth Bishop, Robert E. Lee, Emily Dickinson, Jacques Barzun, Adrienne Rich, James Baldwin, Robinson Jeffers, John Steinbeck, Walt Whitman, E. E. Cummings, Galway Kinnell, Willa Cather, Flannery O'Connor, Eugenia Collier, Henry David Thoreau, Walter Blair, Henry James, Sherwood Anderson, Katherine Anne Porter, Irwin Shaw, Bret Harte, Leslie Silko, Lewis Thomas, Ezra Pound, Frederick Douglass, George Santayana, Ambrose Bierce, Edgar Allan Poe, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Stephen Crane, Tennessee Williams, O. Henry, Lawson Fusao Inada, Langston Hughes, Cotton Mather, Herman Melville, Morris Bishop, Robert Penn Warren, Annie Dillard, E.B. White, Ralph Ellison, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Kate Chopin, Marianne Moore, Amiri Baraka, Margaret Walker, Lorraine Hansberry, James E. Miller, Isaac Asimov, William Faulkner, Carlotta Cardenas de Dwyer, Robert Hayden, Russell J. Hogan, Kerry M. Wood Miller, James E. Miller Jr., Carlota Cárdenas de Dwyer, Kerry M. Wood, John Smith, William Bradford, Sarah Kemble Knight, William Byrd II, Jonathan Edwards, Anne Bradstreet, Taylor, Edward, Phillis Wheatley, Ernest Hemingway, Philip Morin Freneau, J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur, John Updike, Bernard Malamud, James Fenimore Cooper, William Cullen Bryant, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes, John Greenleaf Whittier, James Russell Lowell, James W. C. Pennington, Francis Wright, Edward Rowe Snow, Seattle Chief, Margaret Fuller, Harriet Jane Hanson Robinson, Mollie Dorsey Sanford, Sidney Lanier, Satanta, T. S. Eliot, Richard Wright, Chief Joseph, Paul Farmer, Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Eugene O'Neill, Eudora Welty, Amy Lowell, Archibald MacLeish, Robert Frost, Countee Cullen, Elinor Wylie, Sara Teasdale, James Weldon Johnson, John Crowe Ransom, Wallace Stevens, Phyllis McGinley, Arna Wendell Bontemps, Claude McKay, Louise Bogan, Lillian Hellman, Sabine R. Ulibarrí, Mona Van Duyn, Richard Wilbur, David Wagoner, Theodore Roethke, Karl Jay Shapiro, Richard Eberhart, May Swenson, Mari Evans, W. E. B. Du Bois, Edith Wharton, Howard Nemerov, William Stafford, Randall Jarrell, John N. Morris, Vern Rutsala, Jim Wayne Miller, James Masao Mitsui, Gary Soto, Teresa Palomo Acosta, Jean Toomer, Benjamin Franklin, Theodore Hornberger, Margaret Wasson, Bernard Augustine De Voto, Conrad Aiken, Byrd, William, Captain John Smith, George Washington, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Paul Hamilton Hayne, Henry Timrod, Abram Joseph Ryan, Sarah Orne Jewett, William Saroyan, Stephen Vincent Benét, Paul Engle, Vachel Lindsay, Leonie Adams, James Wright, Ogden Nash, David McCord, Sylvia Plath, Richard Willard Armour, Don Marquis, E. J. Kahn, Paul Horgan, White, W. L., John Davenport, Cleveland Amory, Norman Cousins, Frank C. Laubach, Jesse Stuart, Douglas S. Freeman, Catherine Drinker Bowen, Philip Hamburger, Robert C. Pooley, Day, Clarence, Theresa Helburn, Brad Schulberg, Conrad Richter, Carson McCullers, Vannevar Bush, Richard Rodriguez, Robert Lowell, Robert Anderson, Patrick F. McManus, James Thurber, Thomas Paine, Carl Sandburg, Pearl S. Buck, W. H. Auden, Edgar Lee Masters, William Least Heat Moon, Gwendolyn Brooks, Thornton Wilder: The United States in Literature (Hardcover, 1979, Scott, Foresman and Company) 3 stars

The United States in Literature

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Leslie Silko: Storyteller (1981, Arcarde Pub., Little, Brown & Co.) No rating

Storyteller

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Leslie Silko: GARDENS IN THE DUNES (Paperback, 2000, Simon & Schuster) No rating

GARDENS IN THE DUNES

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Leslie Silko: Conversations with Leslie Marmon Silko (2000, University Press of Mississippi) No rating

Conversations with Leslie Marmon Silko

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Leslie Silko: The turquoise ledge (2010, Viking) No rating

The turquoise ledge

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Leslie Silko: Ceremony 4 stars

Ceremony

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Leslie Silko: Conversations with Leslie Marmon Silko

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Conversations with Leslie Marmon Silko

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Grace L. Dillon, Gerald Robert Vizenor, Diane Glancy, Stephen Graham Jones, Sherman Alexie, Celu Amberston, Gerry William, Simon J. Ortiz, Nalo Hopkinson, Andrea Hairston, Archie Weller, William Sanders, Zainab Amadahy, Misha, Eden Robinson, Leslie Silko, Sullivan, Robert: Walking the Clouds (Paperback, University of Arizona Press) 4 stars

Walking the Clouds

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Leslie Silko: Storyteller (2012) No rating

Storyteller

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William Shakespeare, Charles Dickens, Shel Silverstein, Robert D. Ballard, Virginia Hamilton, Kevin Feldman, Jack London, , Cynthia Rylant, James Berry, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jack Prelutsky, Ray Bradbury, Paul Zindel, Aesop, Lewis Carroll, Emily Dickinson, Maya Angelou, John Phillip Santos, Walt Whitman, E. E. Cummings, Julia Alvarez, Octavio Paz, Richard Peck, Lloyd Alexander, Laurence Yep, Fredrick McKissack, Jr., Bailey White, George Eliot, Leslie Silko, Christopher Paul Curtis, Chinua Achebe, Edgar Allan Poe, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Helen Keller, Rachel Field, Olivia E. Coolidge, Eve Merriam, Julius Lester, Langston Hughes, Pam Muñoz Ryan, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Colleen, Ph. D. Shea-stump, Joyce Armstrong Carroll, Walter Dean Myers, Edward E. Wilson, Charlotte Pomerantz, Carl Zebrowski, Geoffrey C. Ward, Arnold Adoff, Nikki Giovanni, Jerry Spinelli, Leo Tolstoy, Rosemary Benét, John Gardner, Myron Levoy, Amanda Borden, William Harwood, Kerry Cochrane, Lillian Morrison, Bashö, l. G. Edmonds, Ricardo E. Alegria, Tran, My-Van., Sandra Cisneros, George Laycock, Martin Waddell, Arthur Miller, Rudyard Kipling, Susy Clemens, Isaac Asimov, Jean Craighead George, Joseph Bruchac, Diana Chang, Russell Baker, Robert Frost, Francisco Jiménez, Sara Teasdale, Arthur C. Clarke, Gary Soto, Ken Burns, Judith Viorst, Stephen Vincent Benét, Ogden Nash, Jesse Stuart, Pat McKissack, Jane Yolen, Joan Aiken, Garrison Keillor, Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve, Susan Nanus, James Thurber, Kate Kinsella, Lensey Namioka, Gwendolyn Brooks, Russell Freedman: Prentice Hall Literature (Hardcover, 2002, Prentice Hall) No rating

Prentice Hall Literature

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Anne McCaffrey, William Shakespeare, O. Henry, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Richard Wright, Derek Walcott, Rudolfo A. Anaya, Homer, John G. Neihardt, Wisława Szymborska, Bruce Chatwin, Tomás Rivera, Paule Marshall, Sumner Braunstein, Sui Wai Anderson, Basho, Marchette Gaylord Chute, Richard Connell, Walter De La Mere, Grant Moss Jr., Marge Piercy, James C. Rettie, Christina Rosetti, Saki, Frank R. Stockton, Kōnstantinos Petrou Kabaphēs, Chiyojo, Toni Cade Bambara, Leslie Silko, Amy Tan, Mark Twain, Chief Dan George, William Wordsworth, James Hurst, Guy de Maupassant, Edgar Allan Poe, Gabriela Mistral, Robert Browning, Sally Ride, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Simon J. Ortiz, John Updike, Ernest Lawrence Thayer, James Thurber, Gordon Parks, Thor Heyerdahl, Paul Laurence Dunbar, James Joyce, T. S. Eliot, John McPhee, Robert Frost, Gibson, William, Donald Justice, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Lewis Carroll, James Weldon Johnson, Arthur C. Clarke, John Masefield, Carl Sandburg, Sara Teasdale, Langston Hughes, Theodore Roethke, Morley Callaghan, Edgar Lee Masters, Yoshiko Uchida, E. E. Cummings, Isabel Allende, William Least Heat Moon, Margaret Atwood, Ellen Harkins Wheat, Gary Soto, Margaret Walker, Gabriel García Márquez, Martin Luther King Jr.: Prentice Hall: Literature (Hardcover, 1994, Prentice Hall) No rating

Prentice Hall: Literature

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