Hillerman, who died in Albuquerque in 2008 at the age of 83, is best known for his 18 mysteries featuring the exploits of Navajo tribal policemen Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee, books that earned him Edgar Allan Poe and Grandmaster awards from the Mystery Writers of America and Spur Awards and the Owen Wister Award for lifetime achievement from the Western Writers of America, among other honors.īut before he turned to fiction, Hillerman, a native of Sacred Heart, Okla., was a wire-service and newspaper reporter and a University of New Mexico journalism teacher, serving both as chairman of UNM’s journalism department and faculty adviser for the student-operated newspaper, the New Mexico Daily Lobo. He (revealed) who the Navajo people are and what their culture is all about, making them perhaps the best understood American tribe in the world.”
“He used the genre of mysteries to unravel the mysteries of the Navajo people for the world. “I think he is under appreciated,” Morris, 64, said during a recent phone interview from a vacation home in Colorado. James McGrath Morris, himself an award-winning author, is unflinching in his praise of late New Mexico mystery novelist and journalist Tony Hillerman. Santa Fe author James McGrath Morris, seen here at work in 2015 at the University of New Mexico’s Zimmerman Library, will give a talk about late New Mexico mystery writer and journalist Tony Hillerman during the Historical Society of New Mexico History Conference in Albuquerque this week.
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