Leslie Marmon Silko - Being alive was all right then: he had not br

Being alive was all right then: he had not breathed like that for a long time.

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Silko, Leslie Marmon. Ceremony. Viking Press, 1977.

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About the Author

Leslie Marmon Silko

Born: March 5, 1948
Nationality: American
Profession: Writer, Educator, Film Maker

Biography

Leslie Marmon Silko is an American writer. A Laguna Pueblo Indian woman, she is one of the key figures in the First Wave of what literary critic Kenneth Lincoln has called the Native American Renaissance.

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