LESLIE MARMON SILKO
1969 -- first story "Tony's Story" published
1969 -- graduated University of New Mexico with a B.A. in English
1974 -- first book Laguna Woman's Poems published.
2000 -- thirteen books, several short stories and essays published.
copyright: 1999
OTHER BOOKS:
1974 - Laguna Woman's Poems,
1974 - Leslie Silko, Crossing Press
1977 - Ceremony, Penguin Books
1981 - Storyteller, Seaver Books
1984 - After a Summer Rain in the Upper Sonoran, Black Mesa Press
1986 - The Delicacy and Strength of Lace. Letters between Leslie Marmon Silko and James Wright, Graywolf Press
1992 - Almanac of the Dead, Penguin Books
1993 - Sacred Water, Narratives and Pictures, Flood Plain Press
1993 - Yellow Woman, Rutgers Univ. Press
1994 - Laguna Woman, Flood Plain Press
1996 - Yellow Woman and A Beauty of the Spirit, Simon and Shuster
1996 - Love Poem and Slim Man Canyon,
Leslie Marmon Silko was born on March 5, 1948. She grew up on the Laguna Pueblo reservation. Through 5th grade, she attended the BIA "Indian" School on the reservation, and then transfered to a Catholic school in Albuquerque. After graduating college, she was planning to attend law school to help others with legal problems, but chose to teach instead.
She writes and teaches English. She is also actively involved in protesting illegal business practices and abuse of Native Americans.
-an essay by T. M. Lennon
Fan Page by Theresa M. Lennon:
OddyseyT@hotmail.com
http://www.oocities.org/wgoldberg_2000
"An interview with Leslie Marmon Silko" www.altx.com/interviews/silko.html
Official Fan Website www.litrerati.net/Silko
