Tony Hillerman News and Scholarship

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  • Night Skies of Hillerman Country

    by Sophie Ell, Hillerman Digital Fellow
    Originally published on Celebrating New Mexico Statehood, 08/19/2016

    “Hillerman Country” has long been a familiar term among the digital portal’s fellows, New Mexico residents, and…

    --DISC Staff ( )

  • Doubtful Dirt Roads

    Originally published on Celebrating New Mexico Statehood, 8/19/2016

    As summer advances toward the solstice in late June, we on the Hillerman team are mentally projecting our bodies out into the terrain that our imaginations…

    --DISC Staff ( )

  • LISTENING WOMAN (1978) and THE DARK WIND (1982)

    by Diana Filar
    Originally published on Celebrating New Mexico Statehood, 6/10/2016

    Last summer, I had the pleasure of working on Hillerman’s third novel in his Navajo detective series,LISTENING WOMAN, and this semester, I…

    --DISC Staff ( )

  • Remembering Marie Hillerman

    Originally published on Celebrating New Mexico Statehood, 6/10/2016

    In his 2001 memoir, SELDOM DISAPPOINTED, Tony Hillerman (1925-2008) recalls the “life-changing miracle” that was meeting his future wife, Marie Elizabeth…

    --DISC Staff ( )

  • Cultural Appropriation, Collaboration, and Intervention in Tony Hillerman’s Novels

    by Emily Cammack, Senior Hillerman Digital Fellow
    Originally posted on Celebrating New Mexico Statehood, [date]

    The dust jacket of the first edition of Hillerman’s 1989 novel TALKING GOD positions a depiction of a Navajo…

    --DISC Staff ( )

  • Text Analysis Provides New Insights into the Writings of Tony Hillerman

    UNM Libraries Digital Initiatives and Information Technologies departments are collaborating on a project that lets students and researchers perform computational analysis on the manuscripts of Rudolfo Anaya and Tony Hillerman. This type of…

    --Kevin Comerford ( )

  • The Birth of the Mesa

    Our Summer Tony Hillerman post was written by Daejin Kim, the 2017-2018 Tony Hillerman Fellow. He has been working on scanning a posting a variety of Tony's magazine artcles this year, and did an excellent review of a work Hillerman published…

    --Daejin Kim ( )

  • President Garnett S. Stokes Summer Reading List

    President Garnett Stokes just released her Summer Reading List



    "The summer is always spent with my nose in a good book. This year, I plan on immersing myself in all things New Mexico by traveling this great state and reading…

    --Kevin Comerford ( )

  • Song of the Lion—A Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito Novel by Bestselling Author Anne Hillerman

    When a car bomb kills a young man in the Shiprock High School parking lot, Officer Bernadette Manuelito discovers that the intended victim was a mediator for a multi-million-dollar development planned at the Grand Canyon.

    But what…

    --Kevin Comerford ( )

  • Anne Hillerman Bibliography Now Online

    Anne Hillerman, the daughter of writer Tony Hillerman, is an established writer in New Mexico and the Southwest, having published 8 non-fiction works since 1983. In 2013, Anne Hillerman picked up the threads of her father’s…

    --Kevin Comerford ( )