This document outlines some of the key figures and works in the Native American literary renaissance that began in the late 19th/early 20th century. It includes biographical information on writers like Sarah Winnemucca, Zitkala-Sa, Charles Eastman, Black Elk, N. Scott Momaday, and more modern authors like Gerald Vizenor, Leslie Marmon Silko, Simon J. Ortiz, Louise Erdrich, Joy Harjo, and Sherman Alexie. The House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday, published in 1968, won the Pulitzer Prize and marked the birth of Native American literature.