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Wealth

"Hillerman, a consistently-bestselling author, was ranked as New Mexico's 25th wealthiest man in 1996." Source: Crosswinds (Albuquerque weekly newspaper) survey, 1996. http://members.aol.com/wmpb/CrossRich/index.html Pete Tillman 19:40, 22 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Center for the American Indian's Ambassador Award?

This appears on Hillerman's website however a quick (but not thorough) Google search turns up nothing about this center or the award that's not Hillerman-related. --A. B. 13:42, 11 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Too much about Upfield

The article seems to have been hijacked by an Upfield enthusiast. Hillerman's work was highly original, and he was mainly inspired by the people of his native Southwest. There is too much about Upfield in this article. Obituaries of Hillerman make greater mention of his contact with Navajo veterans during and after World War II as an inspiration. (Ron (talk) 12:25, 30 October 2008 (UTC))[reply]

The amount of material in the article that relates to Upfield at present consists of two short paragraphs. The points made in those paragraphs are amply supported, including direct support from Hillerman himself. I don't think they are excessive at all. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.40.123.200 (talk) 01:17, 24 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Ethnicity

There is nothing in the article about ethnicity.

I thought I read somewhere he was part Native American?

Who were his parents?

> Best O Fortuna (talk) 21:32, 4 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Skinning the Night DVD

Never heard of this. As far as I'm aware, there were three American Mystery episodes, Skinwalkers, Coyote Waits, and Thief of Time. [1] - Parsa (talk) 03:50, 18 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I also believe "Skinning the Night" doesn't exist. It doesn't turn up on IMBD or on any of the normal DVD vendors such as Netflix, Amazon, or CD Universe. However, there are four that do: Skinwalkers, Coyote Waits, Thief of Time and The Dark Wind. All four are available through Netflix and on Amazon. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.40.123.200 (talk) 01:13, 24 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Parris Award (named in honor of Parris Afton Bonds)?

I moved this anonymous contribution here -- it's uncited and was put in the wrong place:

"Hillerman was awarded the Parris Award (named in honor of Parris Afton Bonds) by the Southwest Writers Workshop for his outstanding service to other writers."

If someone would care to research this, we could create an award section -- oddly, there isn't one now. --Pete Tillman (talk) 17:55, 22 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

There is an Awards section now, with all the specific awards mentioned in it, including the unattributed sentence above.Yes, it does seem to be named for Parris Afton Bonds. Text about specific awards was removed from the Biography section, moved to Awards, and new sources found documenting the awards to novels, his memoir, or himself. --Prairieplant (talk) 21:47, 24 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Question for you Tillman, as Hillerman won military honors, and awards for his novels and his memoir, should the Awards section be titled Awards for writing, or something like that? --Prairieplant (talk) 22:12, 24 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

FWIW, I'm fine with including the military awards in with the writing stuff, on the Keep It Simple principle. Cheers, Pete Tillman (talk) 05:58, 25 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

new photo of author needed

The photo of Tony Hillerman was pulled from Wikipedia use, so a new one is needed. Does anyone know where to find one? --Prairieplant (talk) 21:49, 24 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Done. --Pete Tillman (talk) 00:12, 25 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, that was quick! --Prairieplant (talk) 01:21, 25 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

How hard is to make a nav box for Tony Hillerman and all he wrote?

In other series, there is a box at the bottom of the page with links to all the Wikipedia articles on the author and the books written. The main series by Hillerman, the Joe Leaphorn / Jim Chee series is done as 'Infobox novel series', which is different than the 'infobox book' that I have seen in a few other series. I find the nav boxes helpful when I am reading a series, to look at the article on one book or another, and to see the scope of the series at a glance. To have the nav box, would it be necessary to revise the book articles in Wikipedia to the infobox book format? I think I could do that for Hillerman's books. But the nav box itself has parameters I do not understand. --Prairieplant (talk) 09:45, 11 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I checked both citations and the links find the desired original source for the Malice awards. --Prairieplant (talk) 20:57, 5 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]