“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...

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...

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...

AN ALMOST complete skeleton of an early human ancestor found in a cave in South Africa promises to shed light on one of the most enigmatic periods in the history of Man. Scientists estimate the age of the skeleton to be between 3.22...

* BRUCHAC, Joseph. Skeleton Man. 128p. HarperCollins. Sept. 2001. Tr $14.95. ISBN 0-06-029075-7; PLB $14.89. ISBN 0-06-029076-5. LC number unavailable. Gr 4-7--Bruchac weaves an incredibly scary story of a girl whose warm, contented family is suddenly torn apart. Molly's knowledge of and...