Internationally known author, teacher, artist, and Oklahoma native N. Scott Momaday was born to Kiowa artist Alfred M. and writer Natchee Scott and received his academic degrees, including a Ph.D., from the University of New Mexico and Stanford University.  He taught English at the University of California, Santa Barbara (1963-1969) and at Berkley (1969-1972).  Following a brief period as Visiting Distinguished Professor at New Mexico State University, he became professor of English at the University of Arizona.  He received such honors as the Guggenheim Fellowship (1966), Geographic Society of Chicago Publication Award (1973), the Western Heritage Award (1973), and the Zimmerman Award (1975).  He also served as a Visiting Professor at such schools as the University of Moscow in Russia, Columbia University, and Princeton.  Momaday was an accomplished artist and illustrator and was named by Oklahoma Today Magazine as one of the 50 most influential Oklahomans of the 20th Century.