Leslie Marmon Silko  (b. 1948) LINKS An Interview with Leslie Marmon Silko http://www.altx.com/int2/silko.html This interview with the e-zine Alt-X begins with a short but informative biographical sketch of the author and covers much of her writing and many of her views on literature and Native Americans. Reader Discussion of Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko http://www.primenet.com/~boojum/ceremony.html Provided as part of an Internet book club, this site includes comments by other readers of Silko's novel Ceremony. Whereas this discussion isn't necessarily scholarly, you may want to check it out to see how other readers have reacted to the book. The site also includes a book review, an interview, and a link to an article by Silko. A Comprehensive WWW Index: Leslie Marmon Silko http://serviette.unm.edu/people/ketchelx/silko/silko-home.html Despite a warning that "this WWW site has been neither created nor endorsed by Ms. Silko," the Comprehensive WWW Index seems just that. It includes links to several categories of information, including online essays and poetry, interviews, and biographies, as well as links to online academic papers about Silko and conferences where papers were presented about Silko. Native American Authors: Biography & Online E-Texts http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/natauth.htm Housed at the Internet School Library Media Center at James Madison University, this site provides links to biographies, primary and secondary e-texts, and other interesting sites about Leslie Michael Dorris, M. Scott Momaday, Louise Erdrich, and Leslie Marmon Silko. BIOGRAPHY Leslie Marmon Silko (b. 1948), a poet and fiction writer, was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and grew up on the Laguna Pueblo reservation. She graduated from the University of New Mexico in 1969, the same year she published her first work, "Tony's Story." Her first book of poems, Laguna Women, appeared in 1974 and her first novel, Ceremony, in 1977. Silko's work reflects her belief in the importance of the preservation of Native American traditions and ways of life. In her second novel, Ceremony (1981), Silko uses Native American stories, in the form of prose and poetry, to retell her own family's story. Her most recent works include Yellow Woman and A Beauty of the Spirit: Essays on Native American Life Today (1996). Silko received an award from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1974 and a MacArthur Foundation grant in 1981. She currently teaches at the University of Arizona, Tucson.

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