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Tony Hillerman, 1925-2008
Beloved mystery author Tony Hillerman passed away yesterday in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The 83-year-old writer had been in declining health for the last few years but said in 2002, “I’m getting old, but I still like to write.” After two heart attacks and surgeries for prostate and bladder cancer, he kept tapping at his keyboard even as his eyes began to dim, as his hearing faded, as rheumatoid arthritis turned his hands into claws, the Associated Press reported.
Hillerman left a rich literary legacy in the form of his two most famous characters, Lt. Joe Leaphorn and Officer Jim Chee. Both Leaphorn and Chee were Navajo police officers involved in labyrinthine criminal investigations, all the while trying to marry the ideals and traditions of their Indian customs with contemporary American culture. Hillerman’s first book, The Blessing Way, was a Leaphorn mystery published in 1970.
As a young man, Hillerman fought in World War II and was wounded and decorated. He eventually ended up in New Mexico, where he taught journalism from 1966-1987 at the University of New Mexico.
His books have won a number of awards. Dance Hall of the Dead (1973) received an an Edgar Award for Best Novel from the Mystery Writers of America, and 1990’s Coyote Waits won a Nero Award. Hillerman also received the MWA’s Grand Master Award in 1991and the Navajo Tribe’s Special Friends of the Diné Award.
Tony Hillerman is survived by his wife, Marie, and six children.
Though a wildly successful and bestselling author, with five of his books made into films, Hillerman remained “a country boy…that’s always who he was,” said daughter Anne. ”I think that’s one reason why he really enjoyed and found so much inspiration in writing about the Navajo people.”
Story Source AP, AFP, Wikipedia | Image Source Laurie Roberts
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