Anne Hillerman
{{Short description|American journalist and novelist (born 1949)}}
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| name = Anne Hillerman
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| caption = Hillerman in 2019
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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1949|10|2}}
| birth_place = Lawton, Oklahoma, U.S.
| occupation = Author
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| education = Journalism
| alma_mater = University of New Mexico
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| awards = Spur Award for Best First Novel, 2014
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| relatives = Tony Hillerman
Marie Unzner
| spouse = Don Strel
| website = {{URL|https://annehillerman.com|Anne Hillerman}}
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Anne Hillerman (born October 2, 1949) is an American journalist from New Mexico, and a New York Times best-selling author. The daughter of novelist Tony Hillerman, she has continued her father's series of Joe Leaphorn-Jim Chee novels following his death, adding officer Bernadette Manuelito as a full partner in solving the crimes.
Biography
She is the daughter of novelist Tony Hillerman and his wife Marie Unzner, and was married to photographer Don Strel, who died in 2020. Anne has served as arts editor and editorial page editor, as well as writer, for The Santa Fe New Mexican newspaper and the Albuquerque Journal.{{cite news|last1=Cowles|first1=Gregory|title=A Daughter Continues Her Father's Legacy, and His Series|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/21/books/review/a-daughter-continues-her-fathers-legacy-and-his-series.html|access-date=January 24, 2018|newspaper=The New York Times|date=April 21, 2017}} Her first books were primarily about travel, local New Mexico points of interest, and restaurants. She and Strel collaborated on Santa Fe Flavors: Best Restaurants and Recipes and Gardens of Santa Fe.{{cite news|title=Anne Hillerman and Don Strel Book Launch Celebration|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/208152376/?terms=Don+Strel+Gardens+of+Santa+Fe|access-date=January 24, 2018|work=The Santa Fe New Mexican{{Subscription required|via=Newspapers.com}}|date=April 2, 2010|page=Z013}}
Leaphorn and Chee novels
Tony Hillerman, who died in 2008, was best known for his Leaphorn and Chee mystery novels.{{cite web|title=Tony Hillerman's Landscape|url=https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7012361-tony-hillerman-s-landscape|website=www.goodreads.com|access-date=January 24, 2018}} Tony Hillerman's Landscapes: On the Road with Chee and Leaphorn was begun by Anne before his death, and includes his comments. With Anne gleaning locale details from her father's novels, and her husband taking the photographs, she intended it as a book to draw in readers of his novels, a guide for the reader to visualize the New Mexico and Arizona sites from the perspective of the two main protagonists Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee.{{cite news|last1=Brown|first1=Ann|title=In Her Own Write: Anne Hillerman Continues Stories of Dad's Characters|url=https://www.questia.com/read/1P2-37939062/in-her-own-write-anne-hillerman-continues-stories|work=AZ Daily Star|date=May 10, 2015|access-date=January 24, 2018|archive-date=January 25, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180125015408/https://www.questia.com/read/1P2-37939062/in-her-own-write-anne-hillerman-continues-stories|url-status=dead}}
After her father's death, Anne continued the Leaphorn and Chee series, but Leaphorn's involvement is curtailed in the first chapter of the first book, Spider Woman's Daughter. Leaphorn is the victim of an assassination attempt, spends half of the book in a coma, and later was severely limited in his ability to communicate. Chee and Bernadette Manuelito are the crime solvers from that book forward in the series, with Leaphorn mentioned sporadically in the background but never fully active in the investigations. Spider Woman's Daughter garnered the 2014 Spur Award for Best First Novel from the Western Writers of America, and landed on the New York Times Best Seller list.{{cite web|title=Spur Award Winners|work=Western Writers of America |date=12 May 2012 |url=http://westernwriters.org/winners/#a2014|access-date=January 24, 2018}}{{cite news|title=Faces and Places|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/218747358/?terms=Anne+Hillerman+spur+award|access-date=January 24, 2018|work=The Santa Fe New Mexican{{Subscription required|via=Newspapers.com}}|date=March 23, 2014|language=en}}{{cite web|title=Anne Hillerman guest speaker for Rudolfo & Patricia Anaya Lecture|url=http://news.unm.edu/news/anne-hillerman-guest-speaker-for-rudolfo-patricia-anaya-lecture|website=UNM Newsroom|access-date=January 24, 2018|language=en}}
She followed that with a change in the series, Rock With Wings,{{cite news|title=Anne Hillerman to speak at Sage Cafe|url=http://www.lcsun-news.com/story/news/local/2017/07/04/anne-hillerman-speak-sage-cafe/449945001/|access-date=January 24, 2018|work=Las Cruces Sun-News|language=en}} Song of the Lion{{cite web|title=The New York Times Best Seller list|url=http://www.hawes.com/2017/2017-04-30.pdf|access-date=January 24, 2018|date=April 30, 2017}}{{cite web|last1=Kinney|first1=Mike Raccoon Eyes|title=Anne Hillerman: Song Of The Lion- A Legacy Series|url=https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2017/05/03/18799151.php|website=Indybay|date=May 3, 2017|access-date=January 24, 2018|language=en}} and Cave of Bones, released April 2018, all of which have also been on the New York Times Best Seller list.{{cite news|last1=Widhalm|first1=Shelley|title=Loveland readers turn focus to 'Spider Woman's Daughter'|url=http://www.reporterherald.com/lifestyles/neighbors/ci_31266583/loveland-readers-turn-focus-spider-womans-daughter|access-date=January 24, 2018|date=September 2, 2017|work=Reporter-Herald}} Hillerman has continued to publish several more adventures in the series.
Bibliography
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- 1988: (with Mina Yamashita) {{cite book|title=Done in the Sun: Solar Projects for Children|date=1988|publisher=Sunstone Press|location=Santa Fe, N.M.|isbn=978-0-86534-018-3|edition= 1st}}
- 1995: {{cite book|title=Ride the Wind, USA to Africa|date=1995|publisher=Rio Grande Pub.|location=Santa Fe, N.M.|isbn=978-0-9642561-7-0}}
- 1998: (with Tamar Stieber) {{cite book|title=The Insider's Guide to Santa Fe|date=1998|publisher=Insiders' Publishing|location=Manteo, N.C.|isbn=978-1-57380-052-5|edition= 1st}}
- 2005: {{cite book|title=Children's Guide to Santa Fe|year=2005|publisher=Sunstone Press|location=Santa Fe, N.M.|isbn=978-0-86534-448-8|edition= New}}
- 2009: (with Don Strel) {{cite book|title=Santa Fe Flavors: Best Restaurants and Recipes|year=2009|location=Layton, Utah|publisher=Gibbs Smith|isbn=978-1-4619-5709-6|edition= First }}
- 2010: (with Don Strel) {{cite book|title=Gardens of Santa Fe|year=2010|publisher=Gibbs Smith|location=Layton, Utah|isbn=978-1-4236-0331-3|edition= 1st}}
;Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee
- 2009: (photos by Don Strel) {{cite book|title=Tony Hillerman's Landscapes: On the Road with Chee and Leaphorn|date=2009|publisher=HarperCollins|location=New York|isbn=978-0-06-137429-6}}
;Joe Leaphorn, Jim Chee and Bernadette Manuelito
- 2013: {{cite book|title=Spider Woman's Daughter|date=2013|publisher=HarperCollins|location=New York|isbn=978-0-06-227048-1}}
- 2015: {{cite book|title=Rock With Wings|publisher=HarperCollins|location=New York|date=2015|isbn=978-0-06-227051-1}}
- 2017: {{cite book|title=Song of the Lion|date=2017|publisher=HarperCollins|location=New York|isbn=978-0-06-239190-2}}
- 2018: {{cite book|title=Cave of Bones|date=2018|isbn=978-0-06-239192-6|publisher=HarperCollins|location=New York}}
- 2019: {{cite book|title=The Tale Teller|date=2019|isbn=978-0-06-239195-7|publisher=HarperCollins|location=New York}}
- 2021: {{cite book |title=Stargazer: A Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito Novel |date=2021 |publisher=HarperCollins|location=New York|isbn=978-0-06-290833-9}}
- 2022: {{cite book |title=The Sacred Bridge: A Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito Novel |date=2022 |publisher=HarperCollins|location=New York|isbn=978-0-06-290836-0}}
- 2023: {{cite book |title=The Way of the Bear: A Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito Novel |date=2023 |publisher=HarperCollins|location=New York|isbn=9780062908391}}
- 2024: {{cite book |title=Lost Birds: A Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito Novel|date=2024 |publisher=HarperCollins|location=New York|isbn=978-0063344785}}
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