Hillerman, Tony (1925—)
Since 1970, writer Tony Hillerman has developed the detective fiction genre with his highly regarded series of detective novels set on Navajo customs and culture. His tw...
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Tony Hillerman "created the American Indian policier," according to critic Herbert Mitgang in the New York Times. Hillerman also "breaks out of the detective genre," as Daniel K. Muhlestein noted in t...
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I tend to have two sorts of fans, Tony Hillerman observed in a 1986 interview with Sue Bernell and Michaela Karni: One kind are the mystery readers, who care more about plot. The oth...
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Tony Hillerman grew up during the Depression in the small, farming community of Sacred Heart, in Potawatomie, Oklahoma. His father's farm came without indoor plumbing, tractor, or electricity. The nea...
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