Tony Hillerman(1925-2008)

He earned a master's degree at the University of New Mexico, where he later taught journalism and became chairman of the journalism department.

[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.