Tony Hillerman
Tony Hillerman
Tony Hillerman was an award-winning American author of detective novels and non-fiction works best known for his Navajo Tribal Police mystery novels. Several of his works have been adapted as big-screen and television movies...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth27 May 1925
CitySacred Heart, OK
CountryUnited States of America
rain somewhere-else order
From where we stand the rain seems random. If we could stand somewhere else, we would see the order in it.
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A writer is like a bag lady going through life with a sack and a pointed stick collecting stuff.
mind trying stories
I always try to make the setting fit the story I have in mind.
attitude two mind
I always have one or two, sometimes more, Navajo or other tribes' cultural elements in mind when I start a plot. In Thief of Time, I wanted to make readers aware of Navajo attitude toward the dead, respect for burial sites.
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Although I wasnt able to get a visa for Vietnam, I was able to talk with swift boat veterans to get a feel for the time and place, and I visited a tropical prison in the Philippines to get a sense of what a Vietnamese prison might have been like.
graduation art winning
The essays in The Great Taos Bank Robbery were my project to win a Master of Arts degree in English when I quit being a newspaper editor and went back to college.
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Although I wasn't able to get a visa for Vietnam, I was able to talk with swift boat veterans to get a feel for the time and place, and I visited a tropical prison in the Philippines to get a sense of what a Vietnamese prison might have been like.