James McGrath Morris is the author of "Tony Hillerman: A Life," the first comprehensive biography of the award-winning best-selling novelist. It is published by the University of Oklahoma Press.

Writer Tony Hillerman, best known for his mysteries set among the Navajo tribe in the Southwest, died Oct. 26. He was 83 years old. Hillerman's 18 novels were evocative of a place and culture that had ...

Tony Hillerman’s daughter had her own dreams for one of the stars of his novels. Now she carries on the family tradition, with a few twists. By Elisabeth Egan A six-episode adaptation of Tony ...

PHOENIX -- Tony Hillerman, author of the acclaimed Navajo Tribal Police mystery novels and creator of two of the unlikeliest of literary heroes — Navajo police officers Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee — ...

Tony Hillerman captured the flavor of the Southwest. I discovered Tony Hillerman’s books the same year I moved to Colorado, introduced to them by the late Alan Dumas, who’d taken classes from the ...

PHOENIX Tony Hillerman, author of the acclaimed Navajo Tribal Police mystery novels and creator of two of the unlikeliest of literary heroes Navajo police officers Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee died ...

“Tattered Cover Book Store,” by Mark A. Barnhouse (History Press) Denver’s Tattered Cover has sold millions of books in its 50 years of operation. It’s about time it got a book of its own. Urban ...

Tony Hillerman was a big guy - tall, with impressive girth. Even though I had seen pictures of him on the jackets of his mystery novels, his actual size surprised me when I saw him in person. Next to ...

PHOENIX — Tony Hillerman, author of the acclaimed Navajo Tribal Police mystery novels and creator of two of the unlikeliest of literary heroes — Navajo police officers Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee — died ...

Tony Hillerman, mystery author died yesterday. He was one of the better mystery authors of the 70s and 80s (he was writing up until his death, but the quality of his work over the past few years had ...