![]() ![]() She was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2001 and to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2021. She returned to settle in the Laguna Pueblo reserve. Other publications follow: novels, collections of poetry, or association of poems, short stories and autobiographical accounts like Storyteller, published in 1981. She returned to live in Tucson, Arizona, in 1978, and taught there at the university. It mixes mythical stories and realistic stories, and also evokes the atomic bomb tests on the Alamogordo firing range, the Trinity Site. In 1977, her best known and most commented work, Ceremony, was published. She was also a teacher at the Navajo Community College in Tsaile, Arizona, then she settled in Alaska from 1973. In 1974 she published her first book, Laguna Women Poems. She published her first two stories, Tony's Story and The Man to Send Rain Clouds, in 1969. Her first published work was a collection of poetry, Laguna Women, which appeared in 1974. She began to devote herself to writing in the 1970s. She is of Laguna ancestry, a Native American tribe based in New Mexico, and thus her literary works are heavily inspired by her culture. ![]() She is best known for her novel Ceremony, published in 1977. Leslie Marmon Silko is a writer and novelist born on Main Albuquerque, New Mexico. Leslie Marmon Silko is the daughter of a Mexican-Anglo-American-Native American family and grew up on the Laguna Reservation, where she attended the local Native American school for a number of years. About Leslie Marmon Silko Leslie Marmon Silko (born Main Albuquerque, New Mexico) is a Native American writer of Pueblo Laguna culture. ![]()
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