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The Dark Wind 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
4416 words, approx. 14.7 pages
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
3214 words, approx. 10.7 pages
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...


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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The Dark Wind Information
88 words, approx. 0 pages
The Dark Wind is the second Tony Hillerman novel to feature Officer Jim Chee. The plot involves the (real life) land dispute between the Navajo and the Hopi, a plane crash, stolen cocaine, and windmill vandalism. It was adapted into a feature film in...


News and Journals
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Albuquerque Journal
High Winds Leave Isotopes in the Dark
04/16/2003: 362 words, approx. 1 pages
Light Standard Is Damaged at Park No runs, no hits, no errors, no nothing. The first postponement of a baseball game in Albuquerque Isotopes history Tuesday night had a uniquely New Mexican flavor. Winds exceeding 40 mph are believed to have...
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The Boston Herald
Powerful winds leave 4,000-plus in the dark.
11/28/1997: 424 words, approx. 1 pages
Wind gusts up to 46 mph ripped through Greater Boston yesterday and Wednesday night, knocking down tree limbs and wires and causing power outages for more than 4,000 electric customers across the Bay State. "I was cooking the Thanksgiving turkey when the power...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Review by Ralph B. Sipper
520 words, approx. 2 pages
In the following review, Sipper lauds Hillerman's prose in The Dark Wind, calling the novel “a compact story that engages.”


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The Dark Wind by Tony Hillerman

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