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- Birth nameAnthony Grove Hillerman
- Tony Hillerman was born on May 27, 1925 in Sacred Heart, Oklahoma, USA. He was a writer, known for Dark Winds (2022), The Dark Wind (1991) and Skinwalkers: The Navajo Mysteries (2002). He was married to Marie Unzner. He died on October 26, 2008 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA.
- SpouseMarie Unzner(August 16, 1948 - October 26, 2008) (his death, 6 children)
- RelativesJohn Hillerman(Cousin)
- He earned a master's degree at the University of New Mexico, where he later taught journalism and became chairman of the journalism department.
- He enrolled at the University of Oklahoma, but left in 1943 to join the Army. He went ashore with the 103rd Infantry Division on D-Day, and was severely wounded in Alsace. He received a Silver Star with Oak-Leaf Cluster. After the war, he returned to college to complete his degree.
- Children: Anne, Janet, Anthony, Monica, Stephen, Daniel.
- A publisher who turned his manuscript down actually said to him, "Your stories would be a lot more interesting if you'd take out all this American Indian stuff."
- He worked as a farmer, truck driver, oil-field roughneck, and reporter and editor for newspapers in Texas, Oklahoma, and New Mexico, as well as United Press International in Oklahoma City.
- [1996, interview on PBS] I am 71, have now-and-then rheumatic arthritis but now very badly, have in-remission cancer, have had a minor heart attack, have one mediocre eye, one tricky ankle and two unreliable knees due to being blown up in WWII.
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