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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Tony Hillerman
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About Tony Hillerman
Anthony Grove Hillerman was an American author of detective novels and nonfiction works, best known for his mystery novels featuring the fictional Navajo Nation Police officers Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee. Several of his works have been adapted for film and television, including the AMC series Dark Winds.
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by Tony HillermanI 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, r…