Tony Hillerman died. Now, I will admit I haven’t many of his books, but he was a beloved writer, a wonderful teller of tales and could weave a story like no other writer writing about the Southwest and Native Americans. I admire him becuase he was a journalist who became a novelist, a feat I’d like to do yet. He was a professor at UNM but not in the days while I was there as a student. I can only imagine what it would have been like to have been one of his students.
May he rest in peace.