N. Scott Momaday
In 1969 his first novel, House Made of Dawn, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. He receved the National Medal of Arts in November 2007. In 2019 he was given the Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award from the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. That award said, "Momaday speaks for the Earth, [seeing] the natural world as a sacred space and [telling] us that humans are a part of, not apart from that world."