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About the Author
    Tony Hillerman is past president of Mystery Writers of America and has received their Edgar and Grand Master awards. His other honors include the Center for the American Indian's Ambassador Award, the Silver Spur Award for the best novel set in the West, the Navaho Tribe's Special Friend Award, the National Media Award from the American Anthropological Association, the Public Service Award from the U.S. Department of the Interior, the Nero Wolfe Award, the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Oklahoma Center for the Book, Honorary Life Membership in the Western Literature Association, and the Grand Prix de Litterature Policiere. In addition to his election to Phi Beta Kappa, Tony Hillerman has been named Doctor of Humane Letters at Arizona State University and at Portland University. He lives with his wife, Marie, in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
    books by tony hillerman
    Fiction
    Hunting Badger
    The First Eagle
    The Fallen Man
    Finding Moon
    Sacred Clowns
    Coyote Waits
    Talking God
    A Thief of Time
    Skinwalkers
    The Ghostway
    The Dark Wind
    People of Darkness
    Listening Woman
    Dance Hall of the Dead
    The Fly on the Wall
    The Blessing Way
    The Boy Who Made Dragonfly (for children)
    Nonfiction
    Seldom Disappointed
    Hillerman Country
    N ew Mexico, Rio Grande and Other Essays
    The Spell of New Mexico
     
     
    About "The Great Taos Bank Robbery"
     
    "Hillerman is surely one of the finest and
    most original craftsmen at work. .. today."
    - Boston Globe Book Review
    "This collection is the
    essence of Hillerman, which is always instructive fun."
    - New Mexican
    "What newcomers sometimes find irritating in the
    general incompetency and charm of this capital of manana,
    Hillerman portrays with simple accuracy: it is hilarious."
    - Taos News
    "Deserves a wide readership . .. some of Hillerman's pieces
    are classics . . . the kind of great writing that uses regional
    commentary to explain what may be innate behaviors
    in all Western humans."
    - Albuquerque Journal
     
    "Tony Hillerman is a wonderful storyteller."
    - New York Times Book Review