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The case of Tony Hillerman: an interview.(Interview)

Journal of the Southwest

| December 22, 2008 | Materassi, Mario | COPYRIGHT 2008 University of Arizona. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

This interview with Tony Hillerman took place in December 1990, in our old home in Albuquerque. It was the first rime we met. After that I often visited him in his beautiful new home in North Valley. We became friends. I taught his work at the University of Florence, supervised graduation theses on his novels and their critical reception, reviewed his translations into Italian, and wrote and lectured on his role in the development of American mystery writing. We often talked of having him and his wife, Marie, come visit us in Florence--a plan that regretfully never materialized. The last rime I saw him, on November 30, 2007, we discussed the possibility of my translating ...

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