After a long career as a non-fiction writer, Anne Hillerman published her first mystery, "Spider Woman's Daughter" in 2013. The story and the series that followed, continued the adventures of Navajo law enforcement characters created by her father, Tony Hillerman, and added many new twists. Her 10th mystery, and the 29th in the series, "Shadow of the Solstice," was released in 2025. She is also an executive producer of the popular, Dark Winds, television series based on the characters she and her father made famous.
Awards: Will Rogers Medallion, Spur Award for Best First Novel; New Mexico/Arizona Book Awards for Best Book of the Year, and Best Mystery and Crime Fiction; Rounders Award Presented by the NM Secretary of Agriculture, New Mexico Representative at the National Festival of the Book , Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., Frank Waters Award for contributions to Southwestern Literature,Spur Award, Western Writers of America; Oklahoma Native Daughter Award, Mountains and Plains Independent Booksellers Award;Southwest Book Design and Production Award, First Place author for Best of Santa Fe and Best of Albuquerqu awards.
Communities: Arizona Author, Tucsonan, Long-time New Mexican with a home in Santa Fe
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