Leslie Marmon Silko is the author of ten books of fiction, poetry, and memoir, including Ceremony, Storyteller, Almanac of the Dead, and The Turquoise Ledge. She received a “Genius Grant” from the MacArthur Foundation in 1981 and the Native Writers’ Circle of the Americas Lifetime Achievement Award in 1994. The singular achievement of Ceremony, published in 1977, secured her a place among the first rank of Native American novelists. She was recently awarded the 2020 lifetime achievement award from the Academy of Arts and Letters and the 2020 Robert Kirsch Award for lifetime achievement.

Tommy Orange is the author of the New York Times bestselling novel There There, and the forthcoming novel Wandering Stars (2024). Orange graduated from the MFA program at the Institute of American Indian Arts, and was a 2014 MacDowell Fellow and a 2016 Writing by Writers Fellow. He won the 2019 PEN/Hemingway prize and was a 2019 Pulitzer Prize Finalist in Fiction. He is an enrolled member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma. He was born and raised in Oakland, California.

PENGUIN VITAE NEW HARDCOVER SERIES: Penguin Classics presents Penguin Vitae, a new deluxe hardcover series featuring a dynamic landscape of classic fiction and nonfiction that have shaped the course of our readers' lives. Penguin Vitae invites readers to find themselves in a diverse world of storytellers, with beautifully designed classic editions of personal inspiration, intellectual engagement and creative originality.

PENGUIN CLASSICS BOOK DESIGN: Penguin Vitae is a collectible series of vibrant foil stamped hardcovers with colored endpapers and high-quality paper. Penguin Vitae marks an exciting next chapter in our Classics hardcover series program, following the acclaimed series book designs of The Penguin Galaxy, Penguin Drop Caps, and Penguin Horror under Penguin Art Director Paul Buckley, and the Clothbound Classics designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith.

CALL FOR DIVERSE CLASSICS: From campaigns such as #WeNeedDiverseBooks to customer requests for beautiful hardcover editions of a wider representation of classic authors, Penguin Vitae aims to provide an exciting and inclusive, highly collectible series of beloved books ready for new discovery.

45TH ANNIVERSARY AND LAUDED AUTHOR: 2022 marks the 45th anniversary of Ceremony, and Silko was recently awarded a lifetime achievement award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Robert Kirsch Award for lifetime achievement.

FOREWORD BY NATALIE DIAZ: Natalie Diaz, an award-winning Mojave poet and author of Postcolonial Love Poem (2020) and When My Brother was an Aztec (2014), contributes a new foreword to the edition.

NATIVE AMERICAN CLASSICS: This new edition of Ceremony marks our second Native American classic in the Penguin Vitae series, joining James Welch's Winter in the Blood (foreword by Muscogee poet and current U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo).