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 ...

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 ...

Tony Hillerman, 83, a New Mexico writer who brought the police procedural into new territory with compelling novels set on the Navajo Reservation, died Oct. 26 at Presbyterian Hospital in Albuquerque ...

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 ...

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. -- On the Navajo Nation where tribal members sometimes hesitate to open up to outsiders, they embraced Tony Hillerman as an honest and genuine man who wanted to learn about their ...

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 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 ...

How Robert Redford and George R.R. Martin helped push to properly adapt Tony Hillerman’s detective novels. By James Hibberd Writer-at-Large In 1979, Thrones author George R.R. Martin moved to New ...

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, 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 ...