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Nobody understood better than Mr. Lincoln the obvious truth that in politics it does not suffice merely to nominate candidates. Something must also be done to elect them.
Leslie Marmon Silko

Born: March 5, 1948 (age 77)
Bio: Leslie Marmon Silko is a Laguna Pueblo writer and one of the key figures in the First Wave of what literary critic Kenneth Lincoln has called the Native American Renaissance.
Known for:
- Ceremony (1977)
- Almanac of the Dead (1991)
- GARDENS IN THE DUNES (1999)
- Storyteller (1981)
- The Delicacy and Strength of Lace