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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.
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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
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 s