About the Author Tony Hillerman is past president of Mystery Writers of America and has received their Edgar and Grand Master awards. His other honors include the Center for the American Indian's Ambassador Award, the Silver Spur Award for the best novel set in the West, the Navaho Tribe's Special Friend Award, the National Media Award from the American Anthropological Association, the Public Service Award from the U.S. Department of the Interior, the Nero Wolfe Award, the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Oklahoma Center for the Book, Honorary Life Membership in the Western Literature Association, and the Grand Prix de Litterature Policiere. In addition to his election to Phi Beta Kappa, Tony Hillerman has been named Doctor of Humane Letters at Arizona State University and at Portland University. He lives with his wife, Marie, in Albuquerque, New Mexico. books by tony hillerman Fiction Hunting Badger The First Eagle The Fallen Man Finding Moon Sacred Clowns Coyote Waits Talking God A Thief of Time Skinwalkers The Ghostway The Dark Wind People of Darkness Listening Woman Dance Hall of the Dead The Fly on the Wall The Blessing Way The Boy Who Made Dragonfly (for children) Nonfiction Seldom Disappointed Hillerman Country N ew Mexico, Rio Grande and Other Essays The Spell of New Mexico
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"Hillerman is surely one of the finest and most original craftsmen at work. .. today." - Boston Globe Book Review "This collection is the essence of Hillerman, which is always instructive fun." - New Mexican "What newcomers sometimes find irritating in the general incompetency and charm of this capital of manana, Hillerman portrays with simple accuracy: it is hilarious." - Taos News "Deserves a wide readership . .. some of Hillerman's pieces are classics . . . the kind of great writing that uses regional commentary to explain what may be innate behaviors in all Western humans." - Albuquerque Journal
"Tony Hillerman is a wonderful storyteller." - New York Times Book Review