Tony Hillerman's 18 Leaphorn & Chee mystery novels, set in the Navajo Nation and the greater New Mexico/Four Corners landscape, were largely written during his decades as a faculty member at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque; the UNM Center for Southwest Research holds his papers and the Tony Hillerman Portal documents the real locations behind his fiction. Hillerman received the Edgar Award, the Navajo Nation's Special Friend Award, and is considered the foundational author of Southwest crime fiction.
Quick facts
- ·UNM Albuquerque is the anchor institution.
- ·Hillerman lived in Albuquerque from the 1950s until his death in 2008.
- ·His daughter Anne Hillerman continues the series.
- ·This is a legitimate literary destination entry — the UNM portal and his Albuquerque home territory are visitable contexts.
- ·Not duplicating any existing catalog entry.
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