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Owen Wister Award Winner: U.S June 2008 Volume xv, Number 5 Western Writers of America pg.S pg.12 pg.16 - Western Writers of America, Inc .• "Literature of the West for the World"e ROUNDUP MAGAZINE (ISSN 1081-2229), is published bi-monthly by Western Writers of America Inc., at MSC06 3770,1 University of MA G A z NE New Mexico,Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001. u.s.soe- scription rate: $30 per year. Periodicals Postage paid at June 2008 Vol. xv, No.5 Albuquerque, NM and additional mailing offices. POSTMASTER Send address changes to CONTENTS WWAIRoundup Magazine WWA Convention Program Schedule. 5 MSC06 3770 1 University of New Mexico WWA Convention Panels and Events.. 6 Albuquerque NM 87131-0001 Owen Wister Award Winner: U.S. SUBSCRIPTION RATE Tony Hillerman...... By Johnny D. Boggs 12 $30 per year (six issues); back issues: $5 each and subject to availability Ferde Grofe: Capturing the Grand Canyon Suite . 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Roundup, Spur, Literature of the West for the World, and Western Writers of America in combination with the stylized WWA are trade- marks registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office by Western Writers of America, Inc. Owen Wister Award Winner: Tony Hillerman By Johnny D. Boggs someone to help him haul equipment There's no mystery surrounding to a wildcat oil well he had drilled on a Tony Hillerrnan's success. New Mexico reservation. "I didn't have a driver's license, never He could have remained a journalist, I had so many jobs, and I was in bad had one, had a patch over my left eye, but he didn't. He could have stuck to shape in another course. Had an A but her dad drove the big truck and writing nonfiction, but he didn't. He in English, of course, although the I followed in a smaller one with his could have given up on his dreams, teacher had me come in [to] teach red-haired daughter sitting beside me," but he didn't. And he could have me how to spell. So thank God the Hillerrnan says. "Along about Crown- listened to his literary agent, the one Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. New who told him that if he wanted to get possibilities opened." point, we pulled off the main highway his first novel published, he had to "get Serving in the 103rd Infantry on a dirt road, and coming our of the rid of all that Indian stuff." Division, he came away with a Purple hills was a whole column of Navajos. He didn't do that either. Heart, the Bronze Star, and the Silver I was used to Indians, but these guys No, Hillerman kept the faith, stayed Star. In France, near rhe German bor- were really dressed up, allan horses, true to his vision and the people he der, he was seriously wounded while men and women, and we stopped to wanted to write about, and through on a reconnaissance mission. let them go. When we got to the ranch, good luck, persistence, and a strong "I got blown up in a barnyard," he I asked the rancher about those Nava- work ethic - not to mention out- remembers. jos. He said some of the boys had just standing storytelling skills - he has Most people wouldn't think of two got back from the Marine Corps and become an international success story, broken legs, almost permanent blind- they're having an Enemy Way cer- an award-winning novelist, and this ness, and having his left foot rebuilt emony, a curing ceremony. I said, 'Boy, year's recipient of Western Writers of ("I still have to buy shoes two different I'd like to see that.' He said if you stay America's Owen Wister Award for life- sizes.") as a blessing, but Hillerman sober and mind yourself, it would be all time contributions to literature about says it was while he was recovering right. the American West. from those severe injuries in a French "They weren't curing bullet wounds Born on May 27, 1925, Hillerman hospital that he began toying with the or broken bones. The whole point was grew up in the small town of Sacred idea of writing. to teach them to get rid of their bad Heart, Oklahoma. His father tried to "I knew I didn't want to farm. I memories, their anger, hatred, indigna- farm and ran a small grocery store. started thinking that maybe I'd like tion for way they'd been treated, been His mother was a former nurse. "We to write, and I started writing a short shot at, just to get them back in what were poor," he recalls while sitting in story in my mind. It wasn't very good. they call Hozjo, harmony with the his home office in Albuquerque, New In fact, it's pretty bad, but I finally put world. I thought, 'Boy, that's wonder- Mexico. "Of course, nobody knew it on paper, got it published, and that ful. That's the way it ought to be.''' they were poor. Everybody was poor." encouraged me." In 1948 - the same year he married He thought he wanted to be a Also encouraged by a reporter at the Marie Unzner (not the redhead he had chemical engineer, and when his fam- Daily Oklahoman after he returned to traveled with to New Mexico) - Hill- ily raised enough money to send one the Stares and was discharged from errnan graduated from the University of their sons to college, Hillerman the Army. Hillerman re-entered the of Oklahoma and began his career as a went to the University of Oklahoma, University of Oklahoma and studied newspaper reporter. He started out on working several part-time jobs so he'd journalism. the police beat at the Borger News Her- have enough money to pay tuition for There was also another significant ald in the Texas Panhandle - he later the next semester - if he lasted that event, although he didn't know it at modeled the character of Joe Leaphorn long. the time, that would affect him. after a county sheriff _ then rook a "I got kicked out of algebra," he He met a girl at a USO dance, and a job at the Morning Press-Constitution says. "I kept going to sleep in class. 1 short while later he was on a road trip in Lawton, Oklahoma, and eventually fell out of the chair one day because with her and her father, who needed covered politics for United Press in 12 ROUNDUP MAGAZINE JUNE 2008 Oklahoma City. Next came a job man- undignified deeds." tion?' I said I wanted to write a novel. aging the United Press bureau in Santa Hillerrnan was also writing nonfiction She said, 'Well, the first thing you've Fe, New Mexico, followed by a stint as essays and articles for magazines, and he got to do is get rid of all that Indian editor at the Santa Fe New Mexican. began working on a novel, calling back stuff." Yet all the while, he wanted to write those experiences he remembered from Hillerman rejected that advice. fiction. his first encounter with the Navajo. Eventually, he sent the manuscript "Marie kept reminding me," Hiller- "It took forever to write," Hillerman to an editor at Harper and Row, and, man says. "It was a seven-days-a-week recalls. "I worked on ir for more than after a few revisions, The Blessing Way job, and she said if I really wanted to do a year, selling nonfiction to magazines was published in 1970, earning an Ed- this I needed to find anorher job where through my agent. You're not very gar Award nomination from Mystery I'd have time to write." important to agents unless you've sold Writers of America as Best First Novel. In 1963, Hillerman took a position a lot of books. Anyway, I sent her the Hillerman followed that with another at the University of New Mexico in book, didn't hear back from her, finally mystery, 1he Fly on the Wall (an Edgar Albuquerque. "I don't know exactly called her, and she said, 'Tony, I don't finalist), in which he relied heavily what you'd call the job," says Hillerman, think you're ever going to get that book on his days as a political reporter, but who taught journalism, worked on his published.' I said that I wanted to do something started eating him about master's degree, and served as univer- some rewriting, and she said, 'Why 1he Blessing Way.
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