Prior to the onset of WWII, Mourning Dove, John Milton Oskison, John Joseph Mathews, Zitkala-Sa, Charles Eastman and D'Arcy McNickle published literary works; however, these works were relatively few in number.
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In The Native American Renaissance,Lincoln explores the significant increase in production of literary works by Native Americans in the years following the publication of N. Scott Momaday's novel House Made of Dawn, which garnered critical acclaim, including the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1969.
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Simon J. Ortiz (born May 27, 1941) is a Native American writer of the Acoma Pueblo tribe, and one of the key figures in the second wave of what has been called the Native American Renaissance.