Leslie Marmon Silko is the author of ten books of fiction,
poetry, and memoir, including Ceremony, Storyteller, Almanac of the
Dead, and The Turquoise Ledge. She received a “Genius Grant” from
the MacArthur Foundation in 1981 and the Native Writers’ Circle of
the Americas Lifetime Achievement Award in 1994. The singular
achievement of Ceremony, published in 1977, secured her a place
among the first rank of Native American novelists. She was recently
awarded the 2020 lifetime achievement award from the Academy of
Arts and Letters and the 2020 Robert Kirsch Award for lifetime
achievement.
Tommy Orange is the author of the New York Times bestselling
novel There There, and the forthcoming novel Wandering Stars
(2024). Orange graduated from the MFA program at the Institute of
American Indian Arts, and was a 2014 MacDowell Fellow and a 2016
Writing by Writers Fellow. He won the 2019 PEN/Hemingway prize and
was a 2019 Pulitzer Prize
Finalist in Fiction. He is an enrolled member of the
Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma. He was born and raised in
Oakland, California.
Praise for Ceremony:
"An exceptional novel—a cause for celebration." —The Washington
Post Book World
"Her assurance, her gravity, her flexibility are all wonderful
gifts." —The New York Review of Books
"The novel is very deliberately a ceremony in itself—demanding but
confident and beautifully written." —The Boston Globe
"Ceremony is the greatest novel in Native American literature. It
is one of the greatest novels of any time and place. I have read
this book so many times that I probably have it memorized. I teach
it and I learn from it and I am continually in awe of its power,
beauty, rage, vision, and violence." —Sherman Alexie
"Without question Leslie Marmon Silko is the most accomplished
Native American writer of her generation." —The New York Times Book
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