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’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 ...

Zahn McClarnon as Joe Leaphorn and Jessica Matten as Sgt. Bernadette Manuelito. Dark Winds, Season 2, Episode 2 Before he died in 2008, author Tony Hillerman wrote 37 books — 18 of which tell the ...

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 ...

When Zahn McClarnon started as an actor in the 1990s, the idea of a Native American protagonist—especially one in a series populated largely by other Indigenous characters—seemed a distant dream.

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Tony Hillerman, the 83-year-old mystery novelist who used the Southwest ...

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 ...

Jun. 10—Six years ago, it started with a meeting. Chris Eyre, Robert Redford and George R.R. Martin met at the Four Seasons Resort Rancho Encantado Santa Fe. The topic that day — Tony Hillerman. "It ...

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 ...