Tony Hillerman's Landscape: On the Road with
Chee and Leaphorn
With Author Anne Hillerman and Photographer Don Strel
Join us Friday, June 4 at 7pm
in the Library multipurpose room
Anne Hillerman is the author of Tony Hillerman's Landscape: On the Road with Chee and Leaphorn (Harper). The book features more than a hundred color photographs by Don Strel of the Indian Country in which the Chee/Leaphorn mysteries are set. Popular speakers on the topics of writing, the Southwest, and the work of Tony Hillerman, Hillerman and Strel have spoken at numerous schools, universities, festivals, conferences, religious and local organizations, and other benefits and events across the Southwest and the nation.
Tony Hillerman (1925-2008), was an Albuquerque, New Mexico, resident since 1963, and the author of 29 books, including the popular 17-mystery series featuring Navajo police officers Jim Chee and Joe Leaphorn, two non-series novels, two children's books, and nonfiction works. He had received every major honor for mystery fiction, and the Western Writers of America honored him with the Wister Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2008. He served as president of the prestigious Mystery Writers of America, and was honored with that group's Edgar Award and as one of mystery fiction's Grand Masters. In 2001, his memoir, Seldom Disappointed won both the Anthony and Agatha Awards for best nonfiction.
Tony Hillerman's Landscape is a stunning collection of original documentary photographs of the landscape that was integral to his writing. Alongside these breathtaking photos are brief synopses of Hillerman's novels, descriptive text from the novels to accompany the photos, Tony Hillerman's own comments about the sites, and narrative information on the locations pictured. Compiled with remembrances by his eldest daughter, Anne Hillerman, with original photos from Don Strel, it is a timely showcase of a hauntingly beautiful landscape that captured one man's imagination for a lifetime, as well as a daughter's tribute to her father. For long-time Hillerman fans, or those discovering his work for the first time, this book of photos lures readers in, transporting them to another time and place.
Authors’ photo, biography, and book description are courtesy of HarperCollins Publishers. For more information about Anne Hillerman and Don Strel, please visit the publisher's website.
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