Shonto Begay

Shonto Begay is the fifth child of sixteen born to a Navajo medicine man. Shonto attended federal boarding schools on the Navajo Indian Reservation. He attended the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and received his Associate of Fine Arts degree. He later earned a degree from the California College of the Arts. He lives in Flagstaff, Arizona.

From the dust jacket of The Water Lady