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Hillerman, Tony

Country/Region:
USA
Born:
May 27, 1925
Dead:
October 26, 2008
Genres:
Miscellaneous prose, Crime literature, Children's literature
Portrait of Tony Hillerman Photo: Ulf Andersen/Getty Images (1991)
American author of German descent born as Anthony Grove Hillerman in Sacred Heart, Oklahoma. Tony Hillerman grew up on a farm; his father ran the village shop and his mother was a nurse. He attended a boarding school with mainly Native American children from the Potawatomie tribe between 1930 and 1938. He graduated from Konowa High School in 1942, in 1948 he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Oklahoma, and much later he attended the University of New Mexico from which he graduated with a Master of Arts in 1966.

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