New Mexico Authors

Laguna Pueblo. Represented New Mexico in the US Congress 2019-2021; fifty-fourth US Secretary of the Interior. Contributor to First & Wildest : The Gila Wilderness at 100.

Senior partner In Artemesia Publishing Company. Co-author of several works including the Constable Inspector Lunaria series and the Saul Imbierowicz paranormal mystery series.

Santa Fe. Academy Award-winning actor. Co-author, with Daniel Lenihan, of several historical novels including Wake of the Perdido Star and Escape from Andersonville; author of Payback at Morning Peak : a novel of the American West.

Carlsbad, Las Cruces. Newspaper reporter, medical writer. Has won many state and several national awards for news, feature, and column writing. Co-author, with mother Doris Holmes, of Sting of the Scorpion and the mystery novel Night of Shadows, both set in New Mexico. Author of the science fiction novel Ten Crescent Moons, and the Salt Flat Murders mystery series about New Mexico newspaper reporter Jessica Flynn.

Writer, teacher, and feminist. Has worked with Los Alamos National Laboratory and the School for Advanced Research. Co-author, with Nancy Owen Lewis, of A Peculiar Alchemy : a centennial history of the School of American Research, 1907-2007; author of Vow: the Way of the Milagro.

(1905-1997) Journalist, author, feminist, adventurer. In 1920 drove across America dressed as a man; her brother-in-law forwarded her letters about the New Mexico leg of the trip to The New Yorker which began her longtime association with that periodical. Wrote on many subjects including biographies of D.H. Lawrence and Mabel Dodge Luhan.

Writer, teacher, and editor. MFA in fiction from New Mexico State University. Short fiction published in numerous periodicals. Contributor to Buffalo Cactus & other new stories from the Southwest.

Native of Lincoln County. Co-author of Corralled in Old Lincoln County, New Mexico: The Lin Branum Family of Coyote Canyon and the I Bar X and author of Gold-mining boomtown : people of White Oaks, Lincoln County, New Mexico Territory which won a 2012 New Mexico Book Award for History.

Hillsboro. Photographer, writer. Co-author, with Max Evans, of Max Evans' Hi Lo Country : under the one-eyed sky; author of Free flow : the Gila River in New Mexico.

(1901-1995) Texan who in his lifetime managed several ranches in New Mexico. Historian of the American West, who created / endowed several history centers documenting Western heritage. Author / editor of numerous histories including Charles Goodnight : cowman & plainsman and The XIT Ranch of Texas and the early days of the Llano Estacado.

Zen Buddhist teacher, anthropologist, ecologist, civil rights activist. Founder of the Upaya Zen Center in Santa Fe, for which she acts as abbot. Author of several books including Being with Dying: cultivating compassion and fearlessness in the presence of death.

Albuquerque. Performing artist, henna artist. Has served as choreographer / stage manager / office manager for numerous theaters including Musical Theatre Southwest and Ballet Repertory Theatre of NM. Publisher at Raven's Perch Press. Author of Exposing the Demon: the true nature of an eating disorder and what you can do to defeat it and The Thinnest Girl Alive: diary of a young dancer and Slave of God: a devadasi's tale.

Photographer; recipient of the Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts. Author of numerous works recording the Southwest, including In New Mexico light and New Mexico : voices in an ancient landscape.

AKA: Em Hall. Professor emeritus in the School of Law at UNM; previous experience in the Office of the State Engineer. Author of Four Leagues of Pecos: A Legal History of the Pecos Grant, 1800-1933 and High and Dry: The Texas-New Mexico Struggle for the Pecos River . Co-author of Reining in the Rio Grande: People, Land, and Water.

Albuquerque. Article writer; author of the books Underground Buildings : more than meets the eye and Out of This World : New Mexico's contributions to space travel.

Former resident of Santa Fe and Taos. Artist, journalist. Author of Poesia: A Memoir of Painting in Venetian Gardens with Giorgione.

Las Cruces, Albuquerque. Writer of articles and fiction for numerous periodicals including Southwest Heritage and New Mexico Magazine. Poetry included in several anthologies. Author of A Place of Her Own: The Story of Elizabeth Garrett about the noted musician who composed the state song, "O Fair New Mexico".

Fort Sumner. Degree from Eastern New Mexico University. Author of the children's book Hannah Hummingbird.

Served for many years as head of the Weather Bureau in Roswell. Artist, local historian. Author of several books on New Mexico history including The Journey of Fray Marcos De Niza and Alvar Nunez Cabeza De Vaca : The Journey And Route Of The First European To Cross The Continent Of North America 1534-1536 and Spanish Missions of the Old Southwest.

Corrales. Former English professor, and Willa Cather scholar. Author of On the Rocks and Death Comes in the Willa Cather and Edith Lewis mystery series.

Santa Fe. Sculptor, teacher of photography and fine arts. Photographs in numerous collections. Author of the book Fishing the Desert.

Author of the book, published after her death by her husband David A. Froebel, Everybody Loved Anna: a German family's story of confronting social normalcy.

Originally of New Mexico, then of Virginia. Writer, photographer, cinematographer. Contributor to Buffalo Cactus & other new stories from the Southwest.

(1916-2006) Longtime resident of Santa Fe; dual US / Swedish citizenship. Lived on a boat after his time in New Mexico, then moved to Sweden. Outdoorsman and hunter, writer of articles on the subject for magazines. Author of many suspense, spy, and western short stories and novels; two of his westerns, The Big Country and The Violent Men, were made into movies. Best known for the series of books about Matt Helm, an international secret agent and assassin. Matt Helm was initially based out of Santa Fe, and many of the early books feature New Mexico settings. Several of the Matt Helm books were the basis for movies starring Dean Martin (though the film character bore little resemblance to the character in the books) and Tony Franciosa portrayed Matt Helm in a TV series.

High Rolls native. Author of many books for young people, including Tyger Tyger: a Goblin Wars book and Firefighters to the Rescue and The Butterfly Book: a kid's guide to attracting, raising, and keeping butterflies.

Journalist. Doctorate in education administration. Writer of articles for periodicals including New Mexico magazine. Author / editor of biographies including Ross Calvin: Interpreter of the American Southwest and The Bursums of New Mexico: Four Generations of Leadership and Service.

Albuquerque. Civil rights lawyer; in 1998, named the ACLU-New Mexico's Attorney of the Year. Public school teacher, named Teacher of the Year by the New Mexico Association for the Gifted. Author of numerous books for young people including Meg Goes To America.

Santa Fe. Master's degrees in journalism and humanities/history. Journalist; publisher of DESIGNER/builder magazine. Author of books on New Mexican furniture including Crafting New Mexican Furniture and Classic New Mexican Furniture, and Santa Fe : A Walk Through Time.

(1896-1993) Honorary degree of Doctor of Laws from UNM. History professor who specialized in the Spanish colonial period. Editor with The Quivira Society. Author / co-author / co-editor (often with Agapito Rey) of numerous works on NM history, including Coronado's Seven Cities and The Story of New Mexico, its history and government.

Wine columnist for the Albuquerque Journal. Author of Wines of Enchantment (2008) and Wines of Enchantment II : a guide to finding and enjoying the wines of New Mexico (2012).

Formerly of New Mexico, now of Northern California. Travels frequently to Egypt. Author of a mystery series set in the time of Queen Hatshepsut, the Lieutenant Bak series.

Santa Fe; served with Planning Direction for the city. Contributor to New Mexico Historical Review. Co-author with Linda Tigges of The Santa Fe 1912 City Plan: A "City Beautiful" and City Planning Document.

Albuquerque. Writes literary criticism on German works and short stories.

(1884-1966) Seventh governor of New Mexico, serving 1924-26. Previously practiced law in Gallup, then served as mayor. A former highway commissioner; best remembered for "Hannett's Joke", a re-routing of Route 66 through Albuquerque in the last days of his holding office, the new route bypassing his political opponents in Santa Fe. Author of his autobiography, Sagebrush Lawyer.

Pen name of Albuquerque author Daniel Abraham, who also writes as James S.A. Corey. Noted for the Black Sun's Daughter series.

Served as Otero County Sheriff. Author of his memoirs (as edited and published by Clarence S. and Joan N. Adams), Harrowing Adventures of an Old-time Cowboy and Sheriff.

Santa Fe resident, scientist at Los Alamos Labs. Author of the Four Corners mystery books Classical Villainy and The Dean's Murders.

Santa Fe. Poet. Author of Tripping the Bardo with Timothy Leary: My Psychedelic Love Story.

(1954- ) Southwestern New Mexico, Gila region. Artst, musician, historian, lecturer. Co-founder and co-director of the Animá Lifeways & Herbal School. Author of numerous magazine articles and several books, including Old Guns and Whispering Ghosts : tales and twists of the old West.

Herbalist, artist, cocreator of Plant Healer Magazine. Co-author, with partner Jesse Wolf Hardin, of The Healing Terrain : coming home to nature's medicine.

Former professor of creative writing at UNM. Native American poet and musician of the Muskogee (Creek) Nation, winner of many awards for her writing. Works include Secrets from the Center of the World and The Woman Who Fell from the Sky: Poems.

Physicist formerly employed with Los Alamos National Laboratory, painter with works in many international and national collections. Author/co-author of many books on Native American pottery including Historic Pottery of the Pueblo Indians, 1600-1880 and Adventures in Physics and Pueblo Pottery: Memoirs of a Los Alamos Scientist.

Northern New Mexico. Author of several works on spiritual connections with landscape especially as involves Native Americans, including What I've Always Known : living in full awareness of the earth and Going Native and A Walk Around the Horizon : discovering New Mexico's mountains of the four directions.

Albuquerque. Co-author (with her husband Les Crowder) of Top-bar Beekeeping : organic practices for honeybee health.

Santa Fe-based writer. Developed "Storytellers and the Southwest," a literary walking tour of historic places in Santa Fe, which she has been conducting since 1996. Previously a docent at the Smithsonian. Articles in a variety of periodicals including the Santa Fe New Mexican. Author of Walks in literary Santa Fe : a guide to landmarks, legends, and lore.

Also writes as Connie Harrington. Albuquerque. Former lawyer, with a background in cultural and linguistic anthropology. Pushcart Prize nominee and finalist in many local award contests. Short stories in numerous publications. Author of the novel Follow the River Home.

Albuquerque, worked as a teacher for the Indian School Service. Author / co-author of several works, particularly for juveniles, including Told In The Twilight: A Collection of Pueblo and Navajo Stories and Navajo Mother Goose Rhymes (1938) and Komoki of the Cliffs (1934).

(1884-1961) John Peabody Harrington. Linguist, ethnologist for the Smithsonian Institution. Editor/translator on many works in Native American tongues; author of works including A Brief Description of the Tewa Language.

Librarian. Author of numerous books for young people including the Pawn Quest series.

Photographer. Images in many works, including (with William DeBuys) River of Traps : a village life; author of Red White Blue and God bless You : a portrait of Northern New Mexico.

Corrales. Professor of Political Science at UNM. Former State Senator from Oklahoma. Pushed legislation to return lands to Taos Pueblo including Blue Lake. Author of several books on political subjects, memoirs, and novels including Easy Pickin's and Coyote Revenge. Editor of New Mexico 2050.

Edgewood. Co-author, with mother Inge Harris, of A Celebration of Gluten-Free Baking.

Edgewood. Co-author, with daughter Gillian Harris, of A Celebration of Gluten-Free Baking.

Retired teacher, writer, photographer. Director of the Lea County Museum. Contributor to Max Evans & a few friends : the 90th birthday book.

Las Cruces. Writes on water resources, architecture, libraries, and history; titles include One Book at a Time : the history of the library in New Mexico and Ghost Towns Alive: trips to New Mexico's past and Las Cruces: an illustrated history.

Born and raised in Albuquerque. Actor, singer, writer, producer. Author of the Magic Misfits series for young people. Author of Neil Patrick Harris: Choose Your Own Autobiography.

Santa Fe. Past president of PEN New Mexico; served as president of the New Mexico Book Association. Author, co-author, or contributor to numerous travel guides. Author of Hidden New Mexico and Santa Fe/Taos/Albuquerque access.

Ph.D from Stanford, Professor Emeritus at the University of New Mexico. Teacher in world literature, British Romanticism, and literary theory. Writer of many articles on the literature and culture of the early nineteenth century. Co-editor of The Bedford Anthology of World Literature and Western Literature in a World Context.

Albuquerque. Author of the mystery series following Santa Fe detective Pascal Ruiz.

Santa Fe. Director, Jewish Learning Channel/Santa Fe Distinguished Lecture Series. Author of Crypto-Jews: The Long Journey.

Santa Fe. Author of several collections of poetry including The Night Marsh and Buried in the Sky.

(1893-1991) Clayton New Mexico. Author of a history of Union County, Not So Wild, the Old West : a collection of facts, fables and fun.

Storyteller; author of books about Native America, animals, mythology, and West Indian culture, including Coyote walks on two legs : a book of Navajo myths and legends and How Chipmunk got tiny feet : Native American animal origin stories.

Sidney Hausman. Tesuque. Attended New Mexico Highlands University. Song writer, entertainer, artist. Author and illustrator of the children's books One Bullfrog and Cactus Critter Bash; illustrator on two books written by Gerald Hausman, Ghost walk : native American tales of the spirit and Turtle dream : collected stories from the Hopi, Navajo, Pueblo, and Havasupai people.

Rio Rancho. Poet; author of Night life of the yucca : the story of a flower and a moth and What's for dinner? : quirky, squirmy poems from the animal world, which won the 2011 New Mexico Book Award.

(1945-) Lives near Datil with his wife Kathleen, a writer and artist. A dedicated high school teacher of high school biology and English by day, Havill earned both his B.A. and M.A. from the University of New Mexico. Best known for the Undersheriff (later Sheriff) Bill Gastner series, set in "La Posada County, New Mexico".

New Mexico native and Rio Rancho resident; former teacher; attended New Mexico Highlands University and UNM. Author of White Feather and Teresita, a historical adventure story involving a Pueblo boy and a Spanish girl. Contributor to Voices of New Mexico, Too

Albuquerque. Co-author, with Chris Shaw, of Mountain Bike Guide to the Jemez Mountains and The New Mexico Mountain Bike Guide.

Longtime storyteller, noted for his bilingual (Spanish/English) stories and for covering Hispanic, Native American, and Anglo cultures. Has visited well over 3000 schools in pursuit of his craft. Numerous honors and awards, including the New Mexico Governor’s Award for Excellence and Achievement in the Arts and being named a New Mexico Eminent Scholar by the New Mexico Commission on Higher Learning. Many popular titles, most of them for children, including The Day It Snowed Tortillas = El día que nevó tortillas and La Llorona = The Weeping Woman and The checker playing hound dog.

AKA: Dharmacārī Dayāmati. Professor emeritus of Buddhist Philosophy at UNM, noted scholar in the field of Buddhist Sanskrit. Co-author of Teaching Buddhism in the West: From the Wheel to the Web; author of Land of No Buddha: Reflections of a Sceptical Buddhist.

Associate Professor of English and the Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning at UNM. Winner of numerous teaching awards; writer of articles on teaching for scholarly publications. Co-editor on Exploring Signature Pedagogies: Approaches to Teaching Disciplinary Habits of Mind and Exploring More Signature Pedagogies and Beyond Sensation: Mary Elizabeth Braddon in Context.

Santa Fe. Performing musician and composer. Author of the novel Incarnation.

Mountainair. Author of No Pretty Picture : Maud Hawk Wright and Villa's raid on Columbus : a novel based on historical facts.

Poet, photographer, and painter. Winner of numerous awards. Author of several works about New Mexico, including Enchanting New Mexico and A Short History of Santa Fe.

Silver City. Worked as reporter for Silver City newspapers. Several awards, including from the National Press Club. Writer of articles on aviation for numerous publications. Commercial helicopter pilot and flight instructor; spent four years as the editor-in-chief of the helicopter industry magazine Vertical.

Author of Public Administration: A Comparative Perspective and State Constitutions : the structure of administration and One Time Around, memoirs of experiences with the School of Public Administration at UNM.

Albuquerque. Retired computer scientist. Author of the science fantasy thriller The Embudo Virus, set in Albuquerque.

(1928-2011) Mary Lou McCallum Heaphy. Albuquerque. Graduate of UNM. Author of A Cliffie experience : tales of New Mexico 1902-1940 about life with her adopted mother.

Alexander S. Heard. Santa Fe. Editorial director of Outside magazine; has worked on several other publications including The New York Times Magazine, Wired, and The New Republic. Author of the books The Eyes of Willie McGee : a tragedy of race, sex, and secrets in the Jim Crow South and Apocalypse Pretty Soon : travels in end-time America.

Santa Fe. Author of Lizard Diary, a memoir of an experience with shamanism, and the novel The Inheritance.

Silver City. Cultural anthropologist, retired from University of Arizona and Arizona State Museum. Author of several works including Navajo Weaving in the Late Twentieth Century: Kin, Community, and Collector and Beyond the loom : keys to understanding early Southwestern weaving.

United States Senator for New Mexico. Sportsman and conservationist, working to support New Mexico's public lands. Contributor to First & Wildest : The Gila Wilderness at 100.

(1915-2016) Served as a high school teacher in Albuquerque, to which city she returned later in life. Author of Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch about her experiences living on a ranch near Carrizozo in the 1940s through the 1960s.

Retired CIA clandestine operations officer. Served as Chief of Counterintelligence at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque. Author of A spy's guide to Santa Fe and Albuquerque, a history of espionage in New Mexico especially as involving atomic weapons.

Author of Aloft! at the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta, a coffee table book about the event.

Santa Fe author of children's stories set in New Mexico, including Just You and Me, Grandpa and Paloma and the Dust Devil at the Balloon Fiesta and Loco Dog and the Dust Devil in the Railyard.

William H. Hemp. Taos. Author and pen-and-ink illustrator of Taos: Landmarks and Legends.

(1881-1949) Santa Fe poet and author. Best known for Brothers of Light : the Penitentes of the Southwest. Co-founder (with Haniel Long, Peggy Pond Church, and Raymond Otis) of Writers' Editions, a cooperative "to publish good books that otherwise might not see the light of day", these books published through Rydal Press of Santa Fe.

(1890-1986) AKA: Eva May Bass "Penny" Pendleton. Las Cruces, operated a ranch with her husband near Hobbs. A member of the Chisum ranching family. Wrote articles for New Mexico magazine. Author of Wild Horses in My Blood: An 1890s Girlhood in New Mexico.

Author of several novels including Isabel's Daughter and The Laws of Harmony, set in New Mexico.

Ph.D from UNM. Staffer in the Archives and Special Collections Department at New Mexico State University as a New Mexico State Records administrator. Served as New Mexico State Historian; past president of the Historical Society of New Mexico; former editor of the Southern New Mexico Historical Review. Translator/co-editor on the Journals of Diego de Vargas. Other works include New Mexico in 1801 : the priest's report and The Witches of Abiquiu : the governor, the priest, the Genizaro Indians, and the Devil.

Dixon. Author of the novel Stygo which won several awards, and the novel Remember Me which is set in "Queduro, New Mexico".

MFA in Photography from the University of New Mexico. Exhibits in galleries worldwide. Author of The Light at the End of History: Reacting to Nuclear Impact.

Author of Mountainair, N.M., Centennial History, 1903-2003.

Professor emeritus at the Department of Civil Engineering at New Mexico State University. Worked as staffer with the Office of the State Engineer. Works in water resources management and water quality. Contributor to One Hundred Years of Water Wars in New Mexico, 1912-2012.

Attorney and CPA; executive director of the Southwest Women's Law Center. Contributor to New Mexico 2050.

Bosque School student who gave up social media for a year and instead wrote poetry, resulting in the book Bleed.

Born in Houston TX; studied at University of Houston and the University of New Mexico. Associate Professor of Spanish at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces. Author of Sagrado: a photopoetics across the Chicano homeland.

Former daily newspaper reporter and weekly newspaper publisher. Author of several fictional works including Pueblo Mysteries, and the biogrpaphy Esteban : the African slave who explored America.

Las Cruces. Author of the mystery series about college student David Elliott, set in southern New Mexico of the 1950s. Co-author, with Bryce Herrington, of one of the David Elliott books and What the Barber Knew.

Las Cruces. Co-author, with Bailey Herrington, of Dead to Rights in the David Elliott mystery series and What the Barber Knew.

Taos. Author of Isabelle's Dream and Partita: a psychological mystery.

Resident of Albuquerque since 1975. Official Scorer for the Albuquerque Dukes baseball team. Sports reporter for Albuquerque-area periodicals. Author of Duke City Diamonds: Baseball in Albuquerque which received a 2011 New Mexico Book Award, and Rio Rancho for the Images of Modern America series.

(1927-2020) Professor emeritus in Mathematics at the University of New Mexico. Advocate of a "humanist" philosophy of mathematics. Author of numerous technical articles for publications including Scientific American. Co-author of the popular work The Mathematical Experience, which won a National Book Award in Science and, with Vera John-Steiner, Loving and Hating Mathematics. Author of Experiencing Mathematics: What Do We Do, When We Do Mathematics?

Albuquerque. Author of the Young Adult Crystal Odyssey series and several other fantasy novels for young people.

AKA: El Toro. (1865-1946) Educator, archaeologist, anthropologist, conservationist. First director of the Museum of New Mexico; first director of the School of American Archaeology. Formed archaeology and anthropology departments at UNM, and founded there the Museum of Anthropology. Had a key role in the formation of Bandelier National Monument and Chaco Culture National Historical Park. Editor with The Quivira Society. Author/editor of numerous works on anthropology & archaeology, including The Pueblo Indian World.

Los Ranchos. Journalist, science writer, publisher. Author of The Star Wars enigma : behind the scenes of the Cold War race for missile defense and Wonderment : a love affair with adventure, travel, writing, philosophy, and family life : an autobiography.

Longtime resident of northern New Mexico. Author of Divine Rainbow : nature as spiritual teacher about the spiritual lessons of living a one-year cycle of nature in the mountains east of Pecos, which book won a 2007 New Mexico Book Award.

Born in Santa Fe. Sportswriter, associated with Newsday, Sports Illustrated, and CBS.

Grew up in New Mexico. Screenwriter, producer. Produced The Wrestler and some of the Harry Potter films; wrote (adaptation) Black Swan; co-wrote The Skeleton Twins.

Santa Fe. Owner of a team leadership coaching company. Author of The Abundance Tree, "a compilation of the work she has done with groups and individuals to enhance personal success and abundance."

(1910-2002) Archaeologist, professor at UNM. Focus on the American Southwest; served as director of the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology. Noted for popular articles about Southwest archaeology, and his involvement in controversy (and possible fraud) involving the Sandia Man Cave site. Author of several works including Kiva Art of the Anasazi at Pottery Mound and The Lost Americans and books on hunting American big game.

Divides her time between Italy and Santa Fe. Teacher, caterer, and writer. Author of the cookbook Gnocchi, Solo Gnocchi.

Co-author, with Betty J. Creighton, of How to Talk about Wines You Haven't Yet Tasted: A Wine Anti-Snobbery Guide and A Writer's Reference: Light Your Writing on Fire. Also writes as BJ Creighton.

Albuquerque. Poet, works in numerous journals including Ecopoetics. Co-founder, with John Tritica, of the Albuquerque poetry circle L)Edge. Author of Cliff Tides, locus Tides, and red tables.

Attended Eastern New Mexico University in Portales; graduated from Western New Mexico University in Silver City. Author of several murder mysteries including The Cotton Rope Strangler.

Author of mysteries and romantic suspense novels including It's Marple, Dear and Paradise Park.

Editor and writing coach. Served for many years as the Literature Coordinator for the NM State Arts Division. Santa Fe restaurant critic for the Albuquerque Journal for nine years. Author of the internationally acclaimed poem, "Wage Peace". Poems included in numerous anthologies. Author of numerous collections poetry including Presence of Angels and Dazzling Wobble.

Physical chemist by training and a Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff at Sandia National Laboratories. Author of Guide to the Hiking Areas of New Mexico and Hikers and Climbers Guide to the Sandias.

Santa Fe. Journalist, editorial page editor for the Albuquerque Journal North and the Santa Fe New Mexican, restaurant reviewer for the Albuquerque Journal. Works as a writing coach on fiction and non-fiction projects. Co-founder/director of Wordharvest Writers' Workshops. Daughter of Tony Hillerman. Author of several books about New Mexico, including Tony Hillerman's landscape : on the road with an American Legend and Gardens of Santa Fe and Ride the Wind, USA to Africa. Her Leaphorn, Chee, and Manuelito series continues her father's characters.

(1925-2008) Anthony Grove Hillerman. Author and educator at UNM, noted for his deep love of New Mexico. Best known for his "Navajo mysteries" about Navajo police officers Jim Chee and Joe Leaphorn, which attracted worldwide attention. Named a Friend of the Navajo Nation. Father of author Anne Hillerman. In Albuquerque, the Tony Hillerman Middle School and the Tony Hillerman Library of the ABCLS are named in his honor.

Resident of Tucson. Worked in the cattle business for 25 years as a ranch hand and then as part-owner and operator of ranches in New Mexico and Colorado. Part-time instructor at the University of Albuquerque. Author of A Hundred Years of Horse Tracks : the story of the Gray Ranch and Adios Hachita : stories of a New Mexico town.

(1887-1979) Born San Antonio New Mexico. Attended St. Michael's College and New Mexico Tech. Served as a representative in the first New Mexico Legislature. Honorary degree from the University of Albuquerque. Worked in his father's small hotel in San Antonio; developed a chain of hotels in Texas then built the Hotel Andaluz in Albuquerque. His company grew into the Hilton Hotel empire. Author of Be My Guest, a copy of which was in each of the hotel rooms and free to customers.

Ervin Hinds. Anesthesiologist. Author of several works, including Healing the Pain of Heartache: a physician explores broken heart syndrome.

(1917-2004) Albuquerque. Author of several biographies of noted Albuquerque women including one about Rosalie Doolittle, and a history of the prominent Huning family, The life and times of the Huning family in New Mexico : A narrative history.

Albuquerque. Author of several novels including Pie Town and Welcome Back to Pie Town, set in New Mexico.

(1937-2010) AKA: The Writer in the Window, Gentle Wind. Santa Fe, Albuquerque. Astrologer, actress, journalist, author; worked in radio. Nicknamed "The Writer in the Window" for her practice of sitting in the window of a shop on the Santa Fe Plaza writing and posting answers to questions on the glass for passersby to read; this experience resulted in her autobiographical one-woman stage show, Dear Writer in the Window. Author of The Hate Factory about the 1980 New Mexico state penitentiary riot.

Santa Fe. Artist, art teacher. Author of The Turquoise Lady

Degrees from College of Santa Fe and Eastern New Mexico University; now of Colorado Springs. Conducted biological baseline surveys in southern New Mexico for the Department of Energy. Author of short stories and Western novels, including the Riverboat series, Colorado Gold, and The Ordeal of Andy Dean.

Graduate of UNM. Founder and publisher of Casa Urraca Press, publishing poetry and creative nonfiction with an emphasis on Southwestern and New Mexico authors. Author of the poetry book Wild Expectations.

Born in Las Vegas New Mexico, resident of Albuquerque for many years before moving to the Midwest. Author of Mountain View Ranch, 1915-1945 about the dude ranch run by George A. and Matie R. Viles.

Placitas. Proponent of alternative science and conspiracy theories, including the idea that NASA is conspiring to conceal evidence of alien presence on the Moon and Mars. Head of the Enterprise Mission website. Author of The Monuments of Mars : a city on the edge of forever; co-author of Dark mission : the secret history of NASA.

(1932-2014) Resident of Los Alamos since 1963. Chemical technician at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Artist, illustrator. Wrote and illustrated A Guide to Bandelier National Monument; author of A Hiker's Guide to Bandelier National Monument and Los Alamos Outdoors. Illustrator of Flowering Plants of the Southwestern Woodlands.

(1939-2018) Santa Fe, Galisteo. Noted potter who created an original art form she called Murals. Author of Living Clay.

Enrolled citizen of the Cherokee Nation Tribe of Oklahoma. Assistant professor of creative writing at New Mexico State University; teaches in the MFA program at the Institute of American Indian Arts. Works in numerous publications and anthologies. National Book Award finalist for the novel Where the Dead Sit Talking; author of the novel The Removed which draws upon Cherokee folklore and history.

Grew up in northern New Mexico, with strong ties to the Jicarilla reservation and Santa Fe. Historian, historical archaeologist, ethnographer; author and speaker. Author of several works including Terror on the Santa Fe Trail : Kit Carson and the Jicarilla Apache.

Santa Fe. Director of the Santa Fe Library. Author of The Complete Santa Fe Bucket List, which won 2016 New Mexico Book Awards.

(1858-1934) Charles Elkanah Hodgin, sometimes as C.E. Hodgin. Taught in various schools around Albuquerque, member of the first class graduating from UNM. One of the organizers of the Educational Association of New Mexico Territory. Served as principal of the Albuquerque Academy, and Superintendent of Albuquerque Schools from 1891 onward. The first building at UNM, Hodgin Hall, was named for him. Author of Rhymes from New Mexico.

Associate Professor of English at the University of New Mexico. Essays in several publications including American Literary Scholarship. Co-editor, with Gary Scharnhorst, of Oscar Wilde in America and Sinclair Lewis Remembered.

Santa Fe. Psychotherapist and counselor. Author of several works including The Joy of Creative Discovery: practices to reclaim your purpose and passion.

(1908-1998) Longtime resident of New Mexico; author of hundreds of articles and short stories for outdoor magazines and over 140 Western novels, including titles such as Legend of a Badman and the Doomsday books.

Rio Rancho. Author of science fiction and thrillers including The Deadliest Echo and Shrouded Loyalties.

AKA: Phyllis Hoge Thompson. Albuquerque. Author of The painted clock : memoirs of a New Mexico ghost town bride and Hello, house : poems (with illustrations by Maxine Hong Kingston).

Santa Fe. Doctor of veterinary medicine who has provided consultancy on horses to a variety of institutions including the Pentagon and the Walt Disney Company. Author of Nobody's Horses : the dramatic rescue of the wild herd of White Sands.

MFA in Fiction; novelist and editor. Has taught at several universities including New Mexico State University. Has served as New Mexico State University Foundation’s Director of Corporate & Foundation Relations. Author of several novels including Four Corners of Night. Co-author, with C.W. "Buddy" Ritter, of Mesilla Comes Alive: a History of Mesilla and its Valley.

Co-author (with Phil T. Archuletta) of Traveling New Mexico : a guide to the historical and state park markers.

Grew up in southern New Mexico. Works in several anthologies; author of Rosary Without Beads about Billy the Kid and the Lincoln County War, which won a New Mexico - Arizona Book Award.

Chimayo. Teacher and poet. Author of a collection of poetry, Chaos Theory; work included in The Sound a Raven Makes.

(1925-2011) Carlsbad. Co-author, with daughter Marilyn Haddrill, of Sting of the Scorpion and the mystery novel Night of Shadows, both set in New Mexico.

Central New Mexico. Speech-Language Pathologist. Instructor at several universities including New Mexico Tech. Poems in numerous publications including Blue Mesa. Author of the books of poetry Wayward Shadows and Vanishing Act.

Santa Fe. Author of Be Still An Instant: A Spiritual Journal.

David Van Holtby. Retired as the Associate Director and Editor in Chief of University of New Mexico Press. Author of Forty-Seventh Star: New Mexico's Struggle for Statehood and Lest We Forget: World War I and New Mexico.

Albuquerque. Computer science instructor. Writes science fiction and fantasy. Short fiction in several periodicals including Amazing Stories. Author of the novel Crew of Exiles.

Santa Fe. Former Peace Corps volunteer, military veteran, teacher. Poet, essayist. Author of Men as Trees Walking and The Rock Cycle.

Lived in New Mexico for 20 years, serving in numerous positions including director of the New Mexico Folklore Society, as a university board of regents member, and a member of the New Mexico State Public Welfare Board. Writer of features and folklore articles for area periodicals including the New Mexico Sentinel. Author of several novels including Tequila which is set in New Mexico.

(1922-2015) Served as University Architect for UNM 1963-1987. Received numerous awards and commendations for his architectural designs, as did his wife Marjorie Mead Hooker. Author of Only in New Mexico : an architectural history of the University of New Mexico : the first century, 1889-1989.

Sandra Hoover. Member of the Corrales Writing Group. Featured in the Corrales Writing Group Anthologies.

(1936-2010) Longtime resident of Taos. Noted actor with many film credits including projects in New Mexico and appearances in many TV series, especially Westerns. Filmmaker and director; winner of numerous awards including the Emmy and Golden Globe Awards and a National Society of Film Critics Special Award. Noted art collector. Artist and photographer with exhibitions in numerous institutions; author of many books of photography including Dennis Hopper : Out of the Sixties.

Former librarian at UNM; scholar in the history of adobe, as well as the architecture of hotels, inns, and opera houses in New Mexico. Author/editor of several works on genealogy and Adobe : a comprehensive bibliography.

Former New Mexico State Historian. Operates a historical consulting firm specializing in land and water rights cases. Adjunct research professor at the Latin American and Iberian Institute at the University of New Mexico. Author of many articles on Southwest history and crypto-Judaism. Author of To the End of the Earth : a history of the Crypto-Jews of New Mexico; editor / co-author of several other works including Historical Markers in New Mexico.

(1903-1991). Moved to Albuquerque in 1915. Author of fiction and non-fiction works; twice recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for History, first in 1955 for Great River: The Rio Grande in North American History and again in 1976 for Lamy of Santa Fe: His Life and Times. Attended New Mexico Military Institute, where he later served as librarian. Lifelong friend of artist Peter Hurd.

Served six years in the state House of Representatives, also serving as House Speaker. Served four years in the state Senate, and 12 years as a UNM regent, including six as president of the board of regents. Brother to Albuquerque businessman H.B. Horn. Author of several works including The University in Turmoil and Transition : crisis decades at the University of New Mexico and New Mexico's Troubled Years : The Story of the Territorial Governors which has a Foreword by President John F. Kennedy.

Tijeras. Poet and essayist. Author of memoirs of life in southern Colorado and northern New Mexico including When Will Papa Get Home? and This Tumbleweed Landed, and Just Another Square Dance Caller: Authorized Biography of Marshall Flippo.

Founding Board member and vice-president of the Wild West History Association, past president of the Western Outlaw-Lawman Historical Society, and a member of the English Westerns Society. Has served as President/CEO of the New Mexico Mounted Police Historical Society. Writer of numerous articles on NM history. Noted expert on the New Mexico Mounted Police. Author of several books including New Mexico's Rangers: The Mounted Police for the Images of America series and Fullerton's Rangers: a history of the New Mexico Territorial Mounted Police and Cipriano Baca: Frontier Lawman of New Mexico.

Albuquerque psychologist and family systems expert. Co-author, with his wife Pam England, of Birthing from within : an extra-ordinary guide to childbirth preparation.

Albuquerque poet, screenwriter. Ph.D. in American Studies at UNM; teacher of English at UNM and CNM. Author of several historical and biographical novels, including Crazy Woman and Black Elk in Paris.

Ph.D. in anthropology from UNM, with a dissertation on the Santa Fe Fiesta as an expression of Hispano ethnonationalism. Contributor to Expressing New Mexico : Nuevomexicano creativity, ritual, and memory.

Taos. Former English teacher. Served as Poetry Coordinator for several area organizations. On the Board of Directors and served as President of SOMOS, Society Of the Muse Of the Southwest. Involved in PEN New Mexico. Author of several poetry collections including A Little Book of Lies and No Longer Time.

(1857-1923) Lived in White Oaks as a young man, practicing law and writing for the town newspaper. Author of numerous Western novels including Heart's Desire (1905) and works of historical fiction including The Story of the Outlaw which addressed Billy the Kid and Pat Garrett.

Native New Mexican. Author of several books including Hot Foot Teddy: the true story of Smokey Bear and La Conquistadora, The Story of the Oldest Statue of the Virgin Mary in the United States.

Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at UNM. Author of Victorian Women Writers, Radical Grandmothers, and the Gendering of God and From Dickens to Dracula: Gothic, Economics, and Victorian Fiction and Royalties: The Queen and Victorian Writers.

Educator with UNM and the Central New Mexico Community College. Author of Anarchy and community in the new American West : Madrid, New Mexico, 1970-2000.

Santa Fe. Photographer with works in many periodicals including New Mexico magazine.

Two master's degrees from UNM. Retired rugby coach and baseball umpire; has umpired for 17 years in the pueblo leagues. Co-author of New Mexico's Pueblo Baseball League.

Santa Fe. Founder of the Deep Coaching Institute. Author of Deep Coaching: Using the Enneagram as a Catalyst for Profound Change and Deep Living with the Enneagram: Recovering Your True Nature.

Rio Rancho. Jack Hudson; the "J.P." reflects the input of his wife Patricia. Author of thrillers/mysteries set in New Mexico, including Kidnapper's Moon and The Balloon Eye : murder on the high desert and A Senior's Moment: a balloon murder in New Mexico.

(? - 2004) Graduate of New Mexico Military Institute. Co-editor of Roundup on the Pecos; author of High Adventures Among the Magic Mountains: Philmont, the First Fifty Years.

Studied at UNM; associate Professor of History at the Northwest Arkansas Community College. Co-author / editor of / contributor to several works including Santa Rita del Cobre : a copper mining community in New Mexico and Forests Under Fire : a century of ecosystem mismanagement in the Southwest.

Albuquerque native, resident of Tucson. Author of Albuquerque in Our Time : 30 voices, 300 years.

(1904-1993) Santa Fe, Albuquerque. Journalist, studied at UNM. Wrote a history of UNM, Pueblo on the Mesa, the first fifty years at the University of New Mexico. Prolific author of mysteries, some of them set in New Mexico. Received the 1978 Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America. Three of her books were made into films, including Ride the Pink Horse which is set in "San Pablo, New Mexico" and was filmed in Santa Fe during the Zozobra festival. The novel was filmed again in 1964 as "The Hanged Man", this time in New Orleans during Mardi Gras.

Grew up in Ecuador, resident of New Mexico. Author of The Sisters of Alameda Street, a novel set in a small town in the Andes.

Provided text for New Mexico Wildflowers: a suite of fourteen linoleum block prints, compiler/editor/illustrator of Pueblo Indian Cookbook : recipes from the Pueblos of the American Southwest; illustrator of Roadside Plants of Northern New Mexico.

Santa Fe, attorney. Co-author, with Rick Hendricks and Malcolm Ebright, of Four Square Leagues: Pueblo Indian Land in New Mexico.

Teacher, former adjunct professor at UNM-Taos. Author of Shook: An Earthquake, a Legendary Mountain Guide, and Everest's Deadliest Day, about a 2015 Everest expedition that included Taos mountaineer Dave Hahn.

Born in Santa Rita, worked for many years at the Chino Mines. Area historian; author of several journal articles on Santa Rita's history. Co-author of Santa Rita del Cobre : a copper mining community in New Mexico and Silver City for the Images of America series.

Historian, teacher, director of the Public History Program at New Mexico State University. Works include Inventing Los Alamos : the growth of an atomic community and J. Robert Oppenheimer, the Cold War, and the atomic West and A Selective Bibliography of New Mexico History. Recipient of the Heritage Preservation Award from the New Mexico History Preservation Division.

(1861-?) Acoma Pueblo. Author of The Origin Myth of Acoma Pueblo, as related by him to Smithsonian Institution scholars in 1928. His life is the subject of a book by Peter Nabokov, How the World Moves: The Odyssey of an American Indian Family.

(1906-1964) Santa Fe. Architect, designer, poet. Longtime companion to Witter Bynner. Author of a collection of poetry, The Early World and other poems; also edited a collection of Bynner's poetry.

Co-editor (with Dale A. Zimmerman) of New Mexico Bird Finding Guide.

Author of a book about her husband, The Life and Art of Wilson Hurley: Celebrating the Richness of Reality.

Rio Rancho. Degree from UNM. Author of Christian fiction, including the Kinsman's Tree series.

(1924-2014) Moved as a child to Clayton, then to Albuquerque. Graduated from Albuquerque High School; degree from UNM, first female editor of the Daily Lobo. Local historian; wife to archaeologist Wesley R. Hurt. Co-author of That's My Bank!, a history of the Albuquerque National Bank.

(1917-1997) Born in Albuquerque, lived there off and on throughout his life. Professor Emeritus at Indiana University. Degrees from UNM, worked as a staff archaeologist for the Museum of NM. Field research included the Plains of San Agustin. Husband to Mary Catherine Hurt. Author of Manzano : a study of community disorganization.

Santa Fe. Outdoorsman, hiker, author of hiking guides including 50 hikes in northern New Mexico : from Chaco Canyon to the high peaks of the Sangre de Cristos.

Former president and board member of the Central New Mexico Audubon Society. Founding member of the Rio Grande Nature Center in Albuquerque. Co-author, with Jane Liddell, of Birding Hot Spots of Central New Mexico and Birding Hot Spots of Santa Fe, Taos & Northern New Mexico.

Co-founder and past president of Sangre de Cristo Fly Fishers. Contributor to Fly Fishing in Northern New Mexico.

Screenwriter, travel writer, lecturer. Born and raised in London, now resident of Taos. Author of her autobiography, Love Child, involving her life as daughter to John Huston and sister to Anjelica Huston.

Distinguished Professor of History at UNM; executive director of the Western History Association. Consultant/writer/narrator/onscreen for many television documentaries. Editor/author of several works on history, including The Custer Reader and Phil Sheridan and His Army and The Apache Wars. Multiple Spur Award winner for distinguished writing about the American West.

(1894-1963) World-recognized author and philosopher. Lived primarily in California, but often visited artist and writer friends in Taos and lived there for a time; his book Ends and Means was written there.

Emergency physician in Albuquerque. Author of several works including The Blood of Strangers : stories from emergency medicine and White Hot Light : twenty-five years in emergency medicine.

AKA: Sally Hyer Kristin. Santa Fe. Has worked for tribal organizations, museums, and preservation projects in New Mexico since 1975. Author of the oral history One house, one voice, one heart : native American education at the Santa Fe Indian School, author of a biography of Pablita Velarde; contributor to Public art and architecture in New Mexico 1933-1943 : a guide to the New Deal legacy.