It's the birthday of detective novelist Tony Hillerman, born in Sacred Heart, Oklahoma (1925). His parents were farmers and owned a general store. He grew up around Pottawatomie Indians, and he and some of the other farm boys went to St. Mary's Academy, a boarding school for Indian girls.
He wrote his first novel, The Blessing Way (1970), featuring Navajo detective Joe Leaphorn. Hillerman went on to write 17 more books featuring Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn, and they were all best-sellers.
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I've read and re-read all his interesting books, telling a lot about the Navaho reservations and their way of life.
Now his daughter is writing more books with some of the same characters carrying on his tradition. I read each of hers as they come out!
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