Leslie Marmon Silko Whitney Smith Andrew McNeal Max Cytulski Mario Thompson Miriam Barton

She was born on March 5, 1948 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She is ¼ Laguna Pueblo Native American and the rest of her ancestry is European American and Mexican American.

She was educated at a Catholic school. She got her BA from the University of New Mexico.

She was divorced twice and has two sons. She received the MacArthur Foundation "Genius" Grant in She was one of the key figures to the Native American Renaissance.

Literary Works While attending the University of New Mexico, she published her first story, “Tony’s Story,” a provocative tale of witchery and renewal. She studied for three semesters at the university’s American Indian Law Program, with the intention of filing native land claims. In 1971, a National Endowment for the Arts Discovery Grant changed her mind about law school and she fully devoted herself to her writing.

Yellow Woman Published in 1974 in the collection, The Man to Send Rain Clouds: Contemporary Stories by American Indians. It is an English short-story inspired by Native American narratives. In traditional Laguna lore, Yellow Woman is either the heroine or a minor character in a wide range of tales.