![]() She currently resides in Tucson, Arizona. Silko was a debut recipient of the MacArthur Foundation Grant, now known as the "Genius Grant", in 1981 and the Native Writers' Circle of the Americas Lifetime Achievement Award in 1994. from the University of New Mexicograduating magna cum laude in 1969and after three semesters of law school decided instead to become a teacher and a writer. ![]() ![]() Leslie Marmon Silko (born Leslie Marmon born March 5, 1948) is a Native American writer of the Laguna Pueblo tribe, and 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, now known as the "Genius Grant", in 1981 and the Native Writers' Circle of the Americas Lifetime Achievement Award in 1994. Leslie Marmon Silko, (born March 5, 1948, Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S. ![]()
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