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Dance Hall of the Dead by Tony Hillerman

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Author Biography

Name: Tony Hillerman
Birth Date: May 27, 1925
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: Novelist, Educator

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Biography of Tony Hillerman
6243 words, approx. 20.8 pages
“I tend to have two sorts of fans,” Tony Hillerman observed in a 1986 interview with Sue Bernell and Michaela Karni: “One kind are the mystery readers, who care more about plot. The other kind I call 'desert rats.'” Since then, howeve...
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Biography of Tony Hillerman
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Tony Hillerman grew up during the Depression in the small, farming community of Sacred Heart, in Potawatomie, Oklahoma. His father's farm came without indoor plumbing, tractor, or electricity. The nearest library was thirty-five miles away and the once-a...
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Biography of Tony Hillerman
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Tony Hillerman "created the American Indian policier," according to critic Herbert Mitgang in the New York Times. Hillerman also "breaks out of the detective genre," as Daniel K. Muhlestein noted in the Dictionary of Literary Biography. "He is a writer o...


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Dance Hall of the Dead Information
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Dance Hall Of The Dead, released in 1973, is the second novel by Tony Hillerman featuring the character Joe Leaphorn. Like many of Hillerman's books, Dance Hall Of The Dead is set in the American Southwest. Themes of the book include the Zuni religion...


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The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
Dance Hall
03/08/2004: 825 words, approx. 3 pages
J.P. PELZMAN, STAFF WRITER The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 03-08-2004 DANCE HALL -- NCAA bid looks good after Pirates slap Knights By J.P. PELZMAN, STAFF WRITER Date: 03-08-2004, Monday Section: SPORTS Edtion: All Editions.=.Two Star B. Two Star P. One Star B...
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The Independent - London
Dance of the dead
08/08/1994: 917 words, approx. 3 pages
Once I believed that if I lived in London and drank in the right bars I would have a good time. I was wrong. Fashionable London is no fun, no fun at all. Last week I went with a friend to one of the...
 


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Critical Essay by Brewster E. Fitz
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In the following essay, Fitz examines the anthropological and ethnocentric themes in Dance Hall of the Dead.
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Critical Essay by Leonard Engel
4,762 words, approx. 16 pages
In the following essay, Engel examines Hillerman's use of landscape and place in Dance Hall of the Dead and Listening Woman, noting the importance of each to Leaphorn's search for a Navajo identity.


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