NEW MEXICAN AUTHORS: A - D
8/22/2005
These are authors who either live or have lived in New Mexico. Some of their works are not available through the Albuquerque/Bernalillo County Library system, but were included for completeness. Those titles are followed by an asterisk. Authors who don’t live in NM, but whose novels are set here, can be found in the NEW MEXICAN FICTION bibliography, also available on this site. In order to search this bibliography, press Ctrl & F at the same time, to use the Find function.
For further information on an author, please check the catalog under SUBJECT using the person's last name. Because some titles have several call-numbers, please check the library's catalog for the specific location & status of the title you are seeking. The library's home page can be found at: www.cabq.gov/library
See also the ALBUQUERQUE AUTHORS, ALBUQUERQUE FOR NOVEL LOVERS, CHILDREN’S & YOUNG ADULT TITLES SET IN ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICAN CHILDREN’S AUTHORS, NEW MEXICAN FICTION, NEW MEXICAN POETS & THE NEW MEXICO INDEX bibliographies at this site. For more information, see also the LITERARY CRITICISM & LITERARY BIOGRAPHIES bibliography at the Information Desks of the Albuquerque/Bernalillo County Library System.
ABBEY, EDWARD - novelist,
humorist who earned his Bachelor's & Master's degrees in Philosophy at UNM,
environmental essayist of Abbey’s Road, Beyond the Wall, Confessions
of a Barbarian, Desert Solitaire, Down the River, The
Hidden Canyon: a River Journey, Journey Home: Some Words In Defense of
the American West, One Life at a Time, Please, The Serpents of
Paradise: a Reader, A Voice Crying in the Wilderness; poet of Earth
Apples; he is also included in Southwest Stories: Tales From the Desert. The Best of Edward Abbey* contains
excerpts from his journals, poetry & an account of his trip to the Sea of
Cortez, with a new foreword by Doug Peacock, who was his close friend & the
model for the flamboyant activist Hayduke in his
novels, The Monkey Wrench Gang
& Hayduke Lives! For more information, see
the NM Index. For information on his novels, please see the New Mexican Fiction
bibliography
ABBEY, RITA DEANIN - UNM-educated sculptor, painter & poet; all of which are included in her Rio Grande Series
ABBOTT, ELIZABETH - NM poet who has been published in the Bloomsbury
Review & In Company: an Anthology of New Mexico Poets After 1960 p.
305+
ABBOTT, KATE - Santa Fe author of the Navajo children's mystery: Mystery at Echo Cliff
ABBOTT, LEE K. - former Deming professor & winner of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), O. Henry & Pushcart Prizes for his short stories, set in Deming: Strangers In Paradise & Dreams of Distant Lives. For more information, see the NM Index.
ABBOTT, WARD -
Albuquerque native, poet, reviewer for ArtSpace & Back
Door magazines, publisher, former editor of The Desert Review & bookseller.
He’s written A Little Green Would Do Us All Good* & North*;
he’s also included in In Company: an
Anthology of New Mexico Poets After 1960 p. 301+
ABEITA, LOUISE - Laguna
Pueblo-born, teacher at Acomita, then Isleta Pueblo author of I am a Pueblo
Indian Girl & poet included in Signature of the Sun; Southwest
Verse, 1900-1950
ABEL, DAVID - Albuquerque poet & owner of Passages Bookshop
ABELL, BRUCE - author of Re-Imagine
Your Business for Breakthrough Results*, a practical book about business,
ideas, & “complexity”. The author is
a co-founder of the organizational strategy research & consulting firm,
Santa Fe Associates International & its predecessor, Santa Fe Center for
Emergent Strategies. He came to Santa Fe in 1991 to help run the Santa Fe
Institute, the world's foremost complexity research center. While there he
developed the Business Network for Complex Systems Research as a way to speed
the application of knowledge about complex systems to all kinds of enterprises.
ABERT, JAMES WILLIAM - he accompanied Gen. Kearny to NM, served in the Union Army, later taught at West Point & author of Report of the Secretary of War, Communicating, In Answer to a Resolution of the Senate, a Report and Map of the Examination of New Mexico. For more information, please see the NM Index.
ABEYTA, CECILIA - essayist & poet included in La Fragua Sin Fuego
ABEYTA, RAY MARTÍN - painter who was born & raised in Santa Cruz, he now lives in New York where he creates elaborate paintings in a Baroque, Latin American style infused with historical & contemporary subject matter. He is the illustrator & subject of KRISTINA PEREA’s Cuentos y Encuentros: Paintings by Ray Martín Abeyta. For further information, please see the NM Index.
ABRAHAM, DANIEL - NM short story science fiction author included in The Dark: New Ghost Stories edited by Ellen Datlow & novelist of The Unreal City*. He attended Clarion West in 1998, has a degree in biology, & works at Southwest Cyberport, an ISP. For more information, please see the NM Index.
ABRAHAM, FERN-RAE - Santa Fe & Eureka Springs, Kansas fine arts & crafts author of Tin Craft: a Work Book
ABRAHAM, MARILYN J.- former NYC vice president & editor in chief at Prentice-Hall & Simon & Schuster, now Santa Fe author of First We Quit Our Jobs: How One Work Driven Couple Got On the Road to a New Life & Happy Camper’s Cookbook, Eating Well Is Portable. She is married to SANDY MACGREGOR. For more information, please see the NM Index.
ABRAM, DAVID - Santa Fe ecologist, philosopher, magician & author of Spell of the Sensuous: Perception & Language in a More-Than-Human World. For more information, see the NM Index.
ABREU, JANE - Las Cruces poet, short story author & co-author of Thunder in the Drought
ACHTENBERG, ANYA -
ACKERMAN, MARIAN BACA - Las Vegas language arts teacher & author who is included in Las Mujeres Hablan
ACOYA, SHANNON - Laguna/Hopi poet, some of whose work can be found in Saludos!: Poemas de Nuevo Mexico
ADAM, CHRISTINA - award-winning El Paso & Idaho rancher & fiction author, whose Any Small Thing Can Save You: a Bestiary, is a collection of southern NM stories, about animals
ADAMS, BILL - Las Cruces author of his memoirs in NM & Arizona: El Rancho Kid
ADAMS, CLARENCE & JOAN -
Roswell authors of histories & New Mexican reminiscences, including For
Old Times' Sake, The Historical Roundup: a Collection of Stories of
Old-Timers of Long Ago In New Mexico, In the Shadow of the Malpais, Little
Town West of the Pecos - 1909: News Stories Taken from the Roswell Register
Tribune, published during August-December, 1909, The Old Timers' Review:
Old-Timers Stories of Long Ago: a Collection of Stories from the Past Eight
Years of Old-Timers' Review, Riders of the Pecos And the Seven Rivers
Outlaws & Tales And Trails Along The Rio
ADAMS, CLINTON - Albuquerque painter, lithographer, director emeritus of the Tamarind Institute, dean emeritus of the UNM College of Fine Arts, editor of Second Impressions: Modern Prints and Printmakers Reconsidered, & author of American Lithographers, Crayonstone, & Printmaking in New Mexico, 1880-1990
ADAMS, ELEANOR B.- retired UNM Research Professor-at-Large, historian of Colonial Spanish America, former editor of the New Mexico Historical Review, winner of the Lifetime Achievement in the Humanities award, presented by the New Mexico Endowment for the Humanities; & translator of among others, Missions of New Mexico, 1776. She is also included in Literary New Mexico. Please see the NM Index for more information.
ADAMS,
KENNETH M. - renowned Taos painter
& author of Kenneth M. Adams, N.A., 1897-1966
ADAMS, MARY E.- teacher, editor at UNM Press, managing editor of the New Mexico Quarterly, journalist & essayist who is included in From the Faraway Nearby: Georgia O’Keeffe as Icon
ADCOCK,
LARRY - co-author of The Economic Impact of the Waste
Isolation Pilot Plant on Southeastern New Mexico, FY 1988, The Social
& Economic Impact of Sandia National Laboratories on the State of New
Mexico FY 1989 & The Social & Economic Impact of the Department
of Energy on the State of New Mexico, FY 1990
ADLER, LUCILE - Santa Fe poet & author of Amulet Songs, Poems Selected & New, Ripening Light: Selected Poems, 1977-1987 & Society of Anna, With Weather Before Women & the Village Anna; some of her other work can be found in In Company: an Anthology of New Mexico Poets After 1960 p. 65+, New Mexico Poetry Renaissance, The Practice of Peace & Saludos!: Poemas de Nuevo Mexico. For more information, please see the NM Index.
ADLMANN, JAN E.- Santa Fe
former assistant director of the
AGNEW, EDITH J. - Utah, AZ, NY & NM
teacher, librarian, & poet of The Songs of Marcelino,
author of the Navajo children’s novel, The Gray Eyes Family &
co-author of The Sowers Went Forth: the Story of Presbyterian Missions in
New Mexico and Southern Colorado with RUTH K.
BARBER
AGOGINO, GEORGE A. - Chairman of the Anthropology Department, & Director of the Paleo-Indian Institute at ENMU, & co-author of Geochronology of Sandia Cave & Sandia Cave: a Study in Controversy
AGOYO, HERMAN - former governor of San Juan Pueblo, Tribal Council member, chairman
of the All Indian Pueblo Council, executive director of the Eight Northern
Indian Pueblos Council, a northern NM Living Treasure & co-editor with JOE S. SANDO of
Po’pay: Leader of the First American
Revolution*. The book includes
contributions from outstanding
AGUILAR, LIZ ANN BÁEZ - San Antonio, NM native, instructor of English at San Antonio College, short story author & poet who is included in the children's poetry book, Love to Mamá: a Tribute to Mothers
AGUILAR-HENSON, MARCELLA - New Mexican poet & critic, some of whose work can be found in Voces: an Anthology of Nuevo Mexicano Writers
AHERN, VIRGINIA H. - NM lawyer, author & women’s rights advocate. More information on her can be found in the NM Index.
AHTONE, HEATHER PAKANALI - Navajo/Zuni author, educated at Santa Fe’s Institute of American Indian Arts, who is included in Neon Pow-Wow
AKINS, NANCY J. - archaeologist & author of A Biocultural Approach to Human Burials From Chaco Canyon, New Mexico & is included in Secrets of a City: Papers on Albuquerque Area Archaeology in Honor of Richard A. Bice
ALARCÓN, FRANCISCO X. - NM-raised Chicano poet, winner of the American Book Award 1993, who teaches at UC Davis, & is the author of Snake Poems: an Aztec Invocation; some of his other work can be found in Floating Borderlands, Love to Mamá: a Tribute to Mothers, Saludos!: Poemas de Nuevo Mexico & Without Discovery: a Native Response to Columbus
ALARID,
CARILYN RAE & MARILYN FAE MARKEL
- twin sisters, NM- born & raised,
ALBA, ALICIA GASPAR DE - El Paso poet, Braille transcriber of children’s
books & short story author, educated at UNM, who is included in Currents
From the Dancing River: Contemporary Latino Fiction, Floating
Borderlands, Growing Up Chicana/o: an Anthology p. 67+, Tasting
Life Twice & Without Discovery: a Native Response to Columbus.
For more information, please see GASPAR DE ALBA,
ALICIA
ALBA, WILLIAM - faculty member of St. John's College in Santa Fe, where he directs the Monte Sol Workshop, & poet of An Oz Album
ALBERTS, DON E. - Rio Rancho author, Civil War in NM expert, military history professor, historian of the Bureau of Reclamation, former Kirtland Air Force Base historian & author of Balloons to Bombers: Aviation in Albuquerque, Battle of Glorieta: the Gettysburg of the West & Rebels On the Rio Grande. For more information, see the NM Index.
ALBERTS, LAURIE -
formerly UNM, now
ALBRIGHT,
JOSEPH - with MARCIA KUNSTEL,
ALCALÁ, KATHLEEN - a
visiting professor in the UNM English Department & novelist of the series: The
Flower in the Skull, Spirits of the Ordinary: a Tale of Casas Grandes & Treasures
in Heaven. Please see the NM Index
for more information.
ALEXANDER,
BOB - Central Texas author of Dangerous
Dan Tucker: New Mexico's Deadly Lawman, Lawmen, Outlaws, & S.O.B's: Gunfighters of the Old Southwest & Six-Guns
& Single-Jacks: a History of Silver City & Southwestern New Mexico*. The author was a police detective, spent 25
as a US Treasury agent, & taught criminal justice courses at the community
college level
ALEXANDER, CHRISTOPHER J. - Santa Fe psychologist & author of Growth and Intimacy for Gay Men: a Workbook*
ALEXANDER, DAVID V. - author of Arizona Frontier Military Place Names, 1846-1912. For more information, please see the NM Index.
ALEXANDER, EVELINE M. - mid-1800's author of her autobiography, Cavalry Wife, the Diary of Eveline M. Alexander
ALEXANDER,
KAREN - Portales writer included in Chicken
Soup for the Soul: Stories for a Better World*, her original short story is
"The Boy Who Believed in Peace Through Love"
ALICO, STELLA HOUGHTON - Santa Fe author of a historical novel, set in Territorial NM about a young girl learning about her Hispanic heritage: María, Mota and the Grandmother, illustrated with photographic recreations, taken at El Rancho de las Golindrinas
ALLEN, CLAY - NM author of the western novel, Range Trouble. He also writes under the name, LAUREN PAINE
ALLEN,
GINA - free-lance writer, sex
therapist, senior humanist counselor for the American Humanist Association,
executive secretary of the Third Judicial District, New Mexico Youth
Commission, state chairwoman of the New Mexico Democratic Committee, & novelist
of The Forbidden Man; A Novel*, set in NM
ALLEN, HUBERT A.
JR. -
ALLEN, MICHELLE MILLER - former Albuquerque, now Jemez Springs novelist of Journey From the Keep of Bones, an interweaving of the stories of four characters on spiritual quests which take place alternately in ancient meso-America & contemporary NM. She also writes under the name, MICHELLE MILLER. For further information, please see the NM Index.
ALLEN, PAULA GUNN - Cubero-born, Laguna/Sioux professor of literature & critical theory, at UCLA, & author of poetry, essays, mythology & fiction, including Sacred Hoop, Studies In American Indian Literature, Voice of the Turtle & The Woman Who Owned the Shadows. She is also included in Sisters of the Earth, p. 336+, Spider Woman's Granddaughters, Sweet Breathing of Plants, Talking Leaves: Contemporary Native American Short Stories & Walking the Twilight II. For more information, see the New Mexican Children’s Authors list & the NM Index.
ALLEN, RICK- carpenter, poet & author who is included in The Spirit That Wants Me
ALLEN, TERESA R. - Missouri-raised, now Albuquerque home care
clinical social worker, poet & children’s author of Laura, the Bichon
Frise, My New Home, an endearing story about how Laura is rescued &
becomes a member of a new family. She overcomes fears & learns to trust her
new owners
ALPERT, CATHRYN - although not a New Mexican, she has written the novel Rocket City, which is set in the Alamogordo area, & who is included in Walking the Twilight II
ALVARADO, LINDA - Albuquerque-born,
construction co. owner, the 1st Latina owner of a baseball team, the Colorado
Rockies & honoree inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame, in 2003;
she’s included in It’s All in the Frijoles. For further information, please see the NM
Index.
ALVORD, LORI ARVISO - first Navajo woman surgeon & author of her memoirs, The Scalpel and the Silver Bear. For more information, please see the NM Index.
AMADOR, ADELA - Placitas-born author of a New Mexico Magazine food & memories column, a cookbook, Twelve Gifts: Recipes From a Southwest Kitchen; short story author of Undercurrents: New Mexico Stories - Then and Now, & Albuquerque businesswoman, who is also included in Cuentos Chicanos (1980 ed.)
AMES, NORMA - Santa Fe novelist of My Path Belated*, set
in Albuquerque & Whisper in the Forest*, a NM romance; writer for
the NM Department of Game and Fish, of Outdoors in New Mexico: a Series of
Wildlife Booklets & illustrator of Woody Plants of New Mexico
& Woody Plants of the Southwest
AMSDEN, CHARLES AVERY - Farmington archaeologist & author of Navaho Weaving: Its Technic and History. For more information, see the NM Index.
ANAYA, PATRICIA - Albuquerque author of novels & book reviews
ANAYA, RUDOLFO - Pastura-raised,
Albuquerque folklorist, playwright, poet, novelist, & essayist, whose most
famous novel is probably Bless Me Ultima. His newest novels are a
mystery series with Sonny Baca, a small-time
ANAYA, TONEY - former Attorney General of NM
& former Governor of NM, who’s included in It’s All in the Frijoles. For more information, please see the NM
Index.
ANCONA, GEORGE - Santa Fe award-winning author & photographer of many books, including Cowboys (about a NM ranch family), Earth Daughter: Alicia of Acoma Pueblo, Let’s Dance! (which includes many photographs of NM dancers) & Pablo Remembers
ANDERSON, CLINTON P. - important NM Senator & author of his autobiography, Outsider in the Senate. More information on him can be found in the NM Index.
ANDERSON, DON - City of Albuquerque environmental engineer & author who contributed to New Mexico in Maps
ANDERSON, DUANE - Santa Fe director of the Museum of Indian Arts & Culture, former vice president of the School of American Research, anthropologist, editor of Legacy: Southwest Indian Art At the School of American Research & author of All That Glitters: the Emergence of Native American Micaceous Art Pottery in Northern New Mexico & When Rain Gods Reigned: From Curios to Art at Tesuque Pueblo
ANDERSON, GABRIELLA - Albuquerque president of the Land of Enchantment Romance Authors & author of fast paced, entertaining & satisfying romances: A Matter of Convenience (set in Boston), the 1st in the Destiny Coin series & A Matter of Honor, the 3rd in the series. She also wrote Ever Yours, a Beauty & the Beast romance, set in 19th century Devon, England. For more information, see the NM Index.
ANDERSON, LOUISE see ROSS, ALLISON
ANDERSON, ROERT O. - Roswell oilman, owner of Atlantic Richfield, at one time the largest individual US landowner, philanthropist & author of Fundamentals of the Petroleum Industry
ANDERSON, WENDELL B. - La Luz poet, who is included in Turquoise Land & author of The Heart’s Precision: Judson Crews and His Poetry
ANDREWS, DR. ARLAN, SR - manager
of Advanced Manufacturing Initiatives at Sandia National Laboratory, author of
science fiction short stories & science magazine articles & who’s
included in How to Save the World, edited by Charles Sheffield
ANDRYA - pen name of Albuquerque author Gladys McNutt, who wrote, What's An Angel*
ANELLA, ANTHONY -
Albuquerque architect & co-author with MARK
C. CHILDS, of Never Say Goodbye: the Albuquerque Rephotograhic
Survey Project & co-author of Saving the Ranch: Conservation
Easement Design in the American West*
ANSCHUETZ, KURT F. - archaeologist & contributor to Archaeological Variability Within the Bisti-Star Lake Region, Northwestern New Mexico & Secrets of a City: Papers on Albuquerque Area Archaeology in Honor of Richard A. Bice
ANTHONY, ALEXANDER E., JR. - Albuquerque director of the Adobe Galleyy & author who contributed to Kachinas: Spirit Beings of the Hopi
ANTONACCI, DR. ROBERT J. - Albuquerque author of several young adult sports technique books, including Football for Young Champions
ANZA, JUAN BAUTISTA DE - 18th century NM governor & author of Anza's 1779 Comanche Campaign. For more information, see the NM Index.
APODACA, RUDY S. - Las Cruces retired state Court of Appeals judge, attorney & author of one of the first mystery-suspense novels by a Chicano writer: Waxen Image, & the suspense thriller, Pursuit (set in Albuquerque). For more information, see the NM Index.
APPLEGATE, FRANK - Santa Fe artist, activist in preserving Spanish Colonial & Indian cultures, co-founder with Mary Austin of the Spanish Colonial Arts Society & author of Indian Stories From the Pueblos & Native Tales of New Mexico. For more information, see the NM Index.
ARAGON, CLYDE JAMES - Albuquerque-born-&-raised author of The PC Affair, a funny detective novel set in Silicon Valley, & Tales of Delight and Shame, a comic collection of short stories
ARAGÓN, RAY JOHN DE see DE ARAGÓN, RAY JOHN
ARAGÓN Y ULIBARRÍ, DANIEL - Albuquerque educational psychologist, researcher & novelist of an 1800's NM political novel about the conflict between the Hispanics & the Americans who robbed them of their land grants: Devil’s Hatband.
ARANDA, CHARLES -
ARANGO, POLLY - Algodones child advocate & co-author of New Mexico:
a New Guide to the Colorful State & Touring New Mexico. She & her sister, MARTHA EGAN, owned Pachamama, in Old Town, Albuquerque & Santa Fe
ARCHULETA-SAGEL, TERESA - Angostura weaver, historian & contributor to Spanish New Mexico: the Spanish Colonial Arts Society Collection. She was married to JIM SAGEL
ARCHULETTA,
PHIL T. - co-author of Traveling
New Mexico: a Guide to the Historical & State Park Markers; owner of
P&M Signs, Inc., he has been in the sign making business for more than 30
years & has traveled the state, studying each marker, in order to preserve
this aspect of NM’s history
ARCINIEGA, TOMAS A. - UNM-educated Dean of the School of Education at the San Diego State University & author of Chicanos and Native Americans & Preparing Teachers of Mexican Americans
ARELLANO, ANSELMO - Vice President for Academic Affairs at L.V.T.I. Community College in Las Vegas, & a contributor to The Contested Homeland, a Chicano History of New Mexico
ARELLANO, ELLEN - Embudo photographer & weaver, who contributed to Ceremony of Brotherhood
ARELLANO, JUAN ESTEVAN -
Dixon wood sculptor, photographer, poet, essayist & winner of Mexico's Premio Nacional de la Literatura Jose Fuentes Mares - Letras
Chicanas, & author of Inocencio; Ni
Pica Ni Escarda, Pero
Siempre se Come el Mejor Elote
& Palabras de la Vista/Retratos de la Pluma. He is
also included in Ceremony of Brotherhood, Descansos:
an Interrupted Journey, Low ‘n Slow: Lowriding in
ARELLANO, MARGARITA - Springer,
NM poet who is included in Nuestras
Mujeres: Hispanas of
ARELLANO, ROMOLO A. - Taos poet & playwright, who is included in Ceremony of Brotherhood, Southwest Towards the Twenty-First Century & Voces: an Anthology of Nuevo Mexicano Writers
ARIZAGA,
GILBERT - Silver City dermatologist
& contributor to A People's Ecology: Explorations in Sustainable Living
ARMAS, JOSÉ - publisher of Pajarito Publications, managing editor of Colores magazine, Albuquerque Journal columnist, who is included in Cuentos Chicanos (1980 ed.). For more information, please see the NM Index.
ARMENDARIZ, ELIZABETH F. - NM preserver of Hispanic folk songs who is included in Hispanic Heroes: Portraits of New Mexicans Who Have Made a Difference
ARMER, LAURA ADAMS - anthropologist, artist, photographer, film director & author of In Navajo Land & Beautyway: a Navajo Ceremonial. For more information on her Newbery Medal-winning children’s novel, see the New Mexican Children’s Authors list & the NM Index
ARMIJO, ROSEMARY GALLEGOS - Albuquerque born & raised, now Valenncia, NM author of La Hija de Juan Gallegos, an Apron of Many Colors*, a collection of narratives, poetry, watercolors & photography. For further information, please see the NM Index.
ARMSTRONG, RUTH - acclaimed Corrales historian & author of The Chases of Cimarron: Birth of the Cattle Industry in Cimarron County, 1867-1900, Cycle of Seasons in Corrales, Enchanted Trails, New Mexico, From Arrowhead to Atom & Promised Land: a History of the Sangre de Cristo Land Grant. She also wrote the text for Enchanted Land, New Mexico, with pictures by HARVEY CAPLIN. She’s also included in Bicentennial ‘76 - Albuquerque Remembers. For more information, see the NM Index.
ARMY, MARY MONTANO -
ARNHOLZ, JIM see BELSHAW, JIM
AROSTEGUI, CONSUELO LUZ - singer, musician, tin sculptor & author who is included in The Spirit That Wants Me
ARQUETTE,
KERRY - Albuquerque-raised daughter of LOIS DUNCAN, has written for magazines & Chicken
Soup for the Writer's Soul. Her books for children are Daddy Promises*
& What Did You Do Today?. She lives with her family in
Arvada, Colorado
ARRIGONI, RENA -
ARRITT, SUSAN - Albuquerque author of Living Earth Book of Deserts, The Allure of Turquoise, & former writer for the U.N. International Fund for Agricultural Development
ARVISO, RACHAEL - Navajo/Zuni author included in Neon Pow-Wow
ASHCROFT, BRUCE - graduate of NM Institute of Mining & Technology & author of Territorial History of Socorro, New Mexico
ASHER, JUDITH see RAFAELA, JUDITH
ASPECTOS
CULTURALES - a Santa Fe-based firm
dedicated to preservation & sharing of many aspects of Hispanic culture
particularly through the Spanish language.
Books, tapes, CDs, games, teachers’ resources, workshops, radio
programs, are all designed to enlighten & increase the awareness of
Hispanic culture in school-age children & adults, as well as to improve the
understanding & use of the Spanish language. The two primary persons involved in the firm
are ROBERTO
MONDRAGÓN and GEORGIA ROYBAL. Pecos mi Pecos*, is a local history
text about
ATENCIO, PAULETTE - Peñasco-born performance artist, storyteller & author of the bilingual books: Cuentos From Long Ago& Cuentos From My Childhood
ATKINS, CAROLYN - NM co-editor of Remembering Presbyterian Mission in the Southwest: 25th Anniversary of the Menaul Historical Library. For more information, please see the NM Index.
ATKINSON, LELAND - Santa Fe chef who worked at the Coyote Cafe and Red Sage restaurants, contributed recipes to Mark Miller's Indian Market Cookbook & author of Cocina!: a Hands-On Guide to the Techniques of Southwestern Cooking
ATWOOD,
MARJORIE - author of The Legend of Galisteo: a Mystical
Tale, about the mystery of a treasure found in the desert, filed in Spanish
Fiction
AUSHERMAN, STEPHEN -
Albuquerque columnist for The Alibi & novelist of an engaging &
disturbing book, Typical Pigs, which won the Lumina 2002 American
Writers Contest & was a finalist for the 2001 Peter Taylor Prize. It's set
in an
AUSTIN, GEORGE S. - Socorro senior industrial minerals geologist for the NM Bureau of Mines & Mineral Resources & author of Albuquerque Downtown: From a Geologic Point of View - a Walking Tour of the City Center
AUSTIN, MARY -
influential early Santa Fe novelist, memoirist of Earth Horizon, Land
of Journeys’ Ending, author of Taos Pueblo* (with accompanying
photographs by Ansel Adams), & poet included in Signature
of the Sun; Southwest Verse, 1900-1950. For more information, see the NM
Index & NM Fiction Bibliography
AUSTIN-NIELL, LEOLA - Moriarty novelist of a NM rodeo romance: To Dance With a Dream Catcher. For more information, please see the NM Index.
AUSUBEL, KEN - La Cienega's award-winning filmmaker, director & co-founder of Seeds of Change, an organization which promotes the diversity of plant stocks; he is the author of Restoring the Earth: Visionary Solutions From the Bioneers, Seeds of Change: the Living Treasure & When Healing Becomes a Crime: the Amazing Story of the Hoxsey Cancer Clinics and the Return of Alternative Therapies. He also contributed to A People's Ecology: Explorations in Sustainable Living. For more information, please see the NM Index.
AVERY, TERRY - Santa Fe author & illustrator of Moon Rabbit Builds a Fine House, a picture book set in a Chaco Canyon-like place, about the jackrabbit in the moon
AVILA, ELENA - Rio Rancho psychiatric nurse specialist, curandera, author of Woman Who Glows in the Dark & who is included in Las Mujeres Hablan. For more information, see the NM Index.
AWALT, BARBE - Los Ranchos public relations expert, photographer & co-author of Charlie Carrillo: Tradition & Soul/Tradición y Alma, photographer of Faces of Faith/Rostros de Fe, Nicholas Herrera: Visiones de mi Corazón, Our Saints Among Us = Nuestros Santos Entre Nosotros: 400 Years of New Mexican Devotional Art, The Regis Santos: Thirty Years of Collecting & co-editor of Seeds of Struggle/Harvest of Faith. For more information, see the NM Index.
AYRES, E.C. - former Santa Fe award-winning mystery author of Heart of the Manatee, Night of the Panther & Lair of the Lizard, starring Florida private eye Tony Lowell. Lair of the Lizard is set in Santa Fe & co-stars WALTER SATTERTHWAIT’s Joshua Croft!
AYRES, ELIZABETH - former NY director of a creative writing center, university & college professor & author of Writing the Wave - Inspired Rides for Aspiring Writers*
BACA, ANA - Albuquerque's Bueno Foods author of the beautiful children's picture books, Benito’s Bizcochitos, & Chiles for Benito, based partly on the stories her grandmother told her & The Seasons: a Cookbook for Life*
BACA, ELMO - Las Vegas-born, now, Chimayo historic preservationist, architect & community revitalizer of Gallup & Las Vegas, & author of Mabel's Santa Fe & Taos: Bohemian Legends, 1900-1950, Native American Style, Rio Grande High Style, Romance of the Mission: Decorating in the Mission Style, Santa Fe Design, Santa Fe Fantasy & Southwest Expressions. He is also included in 100 Years of Filmmaking in New Mexico 1898-1998. For more information, see the NM Index.
BACA, JIMMY SANTIAGO - Santa Fe-born, now Albuquerque South Valley American Book Award-winning poet, teacher, essayist, playwright & author of Black Mesa Poems, C-Train (Dream Boy's Story) & Thirteen Mexicans, Healing Earthquakes: a Love Story In Poems, Immigrants In Our Own Land, Martin; & Meditation on the South Valley, A Place to Stand: the Making of a Poet, Set This Book On Fire, What’s Happening, Winter Poems Along the Rio Grande & Working In the Dark. He is also included in Before Columbus Foundation Poetry Anthology, Currents From the Dancing River, Floating Borderlands, Getting Over the Color Green: Contemporary Environmental Literature of the Southwest, In Company: an Anthology of New Mexico Poets After 1960 p. 197+, Multicultural Southwest: a Reader, New American Poets of the '90s, & Paper Dance: 55 Latino Poets. For more information, see the NM Index.
BACA, JOHN E. - NM educator, public school guidance consultant & author of the historical novel about the Pueblo Revolt: Sound Retreat for the Conquistadores
BACA, KATHLEEN M. -
BACA, LORENZO - Isleta Pueblo/Mescalero Apache author & performance artist included in Neon Pow-Wow & Returning the Gift
BACA, LOUIS - Dulce-born & raised, Santa Clara Pueblo member & contributor to Ceremony of Brotherhood
BACA, MARIA - Albuquerque artist & illustrator of RUDOLFO ANAYA’s Maya’s Children: the Story of La Llorona
BACA-VAUGHN, GUADALUPE -
BACALSKI, ROBERT - poet included in La Fragua Sin Fuego
BACIGALUPA, DREW -
BAD HAND, ERIN - Taos raised poet of And Then Everyone Can Rest*. She took 3rd place in the 2000 Youth National Poetry Slam, in San Francisco. She is the daughter of HOWARD BAD HAND.
BAD HAND, HOWARD - a 4th
generation song-keeper who grew up in the Red Leaf–Black Pipe community near
Rosebud,
BADAL, JOSEPH H. - Santa Fe member of the NM House of Representatives,
who worked for 30 years in the banking & financial services industries
& is the suspense novelist of Pythagorean Solution, which is an
adventure novel set on the Aegean island of Samos,
involving a fortune in gold & jewels, a German SS Officer, the theft of
valuables from Holocaust victims & Swiss bankers; & Terror Cell,
an exciting & memorable mystery set in Athens, Greece, in July, 2004.
For more information, please see the NM Index.
BAER, JOSHUA - Santa Fe American Indian art collector, dealer & author of Collecting the Navajo Child’s Blanket & Twelve Classics*. For more information, see the NM Index.
BAILEY, BETH L. -
award-winning acting chair of the UNM American Studies Program, wife of DAVID FARBER, & author of The Columbia
Guide to America in the 1960s & From Front Porch to Back Seat:
Courtship in Twentieth-Century America.
Please see the NM Index for further
information.
BAILEY, FLORENCE AUGUSTA (MERRIAM) - one of the U.S.’s greatest women ornithologists, wife
of VERNON,
& author of Birds of New Mexico.
For more information, see:
BAILEY, JANET - NM science journalist for the Los Angeles Times & author of Good Servant: Making Peace With the Bomb at Los Alamos
BAILEY
BAIN, JAMES G. - contributor to By Hands Unknown: Papers on Rock
Art and Archaeology in Honor of James G. Bain, Collected Papers in Honor
of Harry L. Hadlock & Collected Papers in
Honor of Helen Greene Blumenschein
BAIRSTOW, LINDA -
BAKER, JOAN BROOKS - Santa Fe photographer & co-author of Symbols of Faith: a Visual Journey to Historic Churches of New Mexico
BAKER, LAURA - Albuquerque co-owner of Tanner Chaney Galleries in Old Town & author of a tale of destiny & reconciliation between a Hopi woman & an FBI agent, in Broken in Two; a romantic detective mystery with a psychic Navajo FBI agent, in Legend; a romance set in Utah, between a former Anasazi artifact thief & a BLM ranger, in Raven & a romance/time travel novel, set in Canyon de Chelly, Stargazer. For more information, please see the New Mexico Index.
BAKER, LOUIS - former Albuquerque actor, Vortex board member, Screen Actors Guild member, who appeared in films such as Speechless & Natural Born Killers, & author of Parallel Programming*, for professional programmers & students
BAKER, PAULA - Santa Fe architect & baubiologist, the founder of Baker & Associates, &
contributor to A People's Ecology:
Explorations in Sustainable Living
BAKER, SARAH see SARAH STORME
BAKEWELL, SUSAN BENFORADO - art historian, former Curator of Contemporary Art, Museum of Fine Arts in Santa Fe & general co-editor of Voices in New Mexico Art
BAKKER, BRETT - NM field manager for Native Seeds/SEARCH, very
experienced in native & heirloom seed farming, collecting, growing; co-founder of Flowering Tree Permaculture
Institute, with Roxanne Swentzell & JOEL GLANZBERG, to study traditional
Southwestern life & its applications to permaculture; & a
contributor to A People's Ecology: Explorations in Sustainable Living
BALASSI, WILLIAM - UNM lecturer & co-editor of This Is About Vision
BALCH,
ROYCE JANE - author of Jacob Korber,
Early Businessman of Albuquerque, New Mexico, 1811- 1921
BALCOMB, KENNETH C. - Albuquerque engineer who worked for the Soil Conservation Service for many years, & who wrote: A Boy's Albuquerque & Red River Hill. For more information, see the NM Index.
BALDWIN, LAUREN M. -
BALDWIN, LOUIS - Sandia National Laboratories writer, supervisor,
English professor & author of Intruders Within:
BALL, DURWOOD - editor of the New Mexico Historical Review, associate professor of history at UNM & author of Army Regulars on the Western Frontier, 1848-1861
BALL, EVE - Ruidoso author of several books on the Warm Springs Apaches, including Indeh, an Apache Odyssey, In the Days of Victorio: Recollections of a Warm Springs Apache, & a biography of Ma’am Jones of the Pecos. For more information on her, see the NM Index.
BALL, ZACHARY - Roswell author of the children's dog novel Bristle Face
BALLEN, SAMUEL B. - owner of La Fonda & author of Without Reservations: from Harlem to the End of the Santa Fe Trail
BALLENGER, MARY LOU - Albuquerque hospital dietitian, teacher & poet who is included in Turquoise Land
BANDELIER, ADOLPH F. - early Santa Fe historian, archaeologist & novelist of one of the earliest Southwestern novels: Delight Makers. For more information, see the NM Index.
BANTISTA, R.M. - Albuquerque poet & short story author, some of whose work can be found in Remembered Earth: an Anthology of Contemporary Native American Literature
BARBER,
DAVID - Corpus Christi, Texas-born,
government worker/poet who retired in
BARBER, RUTH K. - NM teacher at the
BARBOUR, BARTON H. -assistant professor of history at Boise State, former historian with the National Park Service in Santa Fe, author of Fort Union & the Upper Missouri Fur Trade, Reluctant Frontiersman: James Ross Larkin on the Santa Fe Trail, 1856-57, Tales of the Mountain Men, & he is included in New Mexican Lives: Profiles & Historical Stories
BARDE, DAVID - Star Lake, NM
archaeologist, plant engineer & contributor to The Star Lake
Archaeological Project: Anthropology of a Headwaters Area of Chaco Wash, New
Mexico
BARELA, GENE -
BARELA, JOSEPHINE -
BARKAN, RHODA - Santa Fe docent at the Museum of Fine Arts & the Palace of the Governors, & co-author with PETER SINCLAIRE, of, From Santa Fe to O’Keeffe Country: a One-Day Journey Through the Soul of New Mexico
BARKER, ELLIOTT - State Game Warden, hunter, rancher & author of Beatty's Cabin, Smokey Bear & the Great Wilderness: Selected Essays & Memoirs & Western Life & Adventures. His brother is S. OMAR BARKER & his sister is MATTIE BARKER PHILLIPS CREWS. For more information, see the NM Index.
BARKER, E. M. (ELSA MCCORMICK) -
long-time western novelist of Clouds Over the Chupaderos*, Cowboys
Can't Quit*, Riders of the Ramhorn* (set
in Las Vegas & Fort Union), Secret of the
BARKER, RODNEY -
BARKER,
S. OMAR - high school teacher of
English & Spanish in Tularosa & Santa Rosa, instructor in English at
New Mexico Highlands University, member of the New Mexico Legislature, operated
a small ranch, U.S. forest ranger, trombonist in Doc Patterson's Cowboy Band
& author of children’s stories, poetry, nonfiction & a novel. He was a winner of Spur Awards from the
Western Writers of America, for best western short story, for best western
nonfiction, for contribution to This Is the West, & for best western
poem; Justin Golden Boot Award from the Western Writers of America, for
distinguished writing in western field; Levi Strauss Golden Saddleman Award
from the Western Writers of America, "for bringing dignity and honor to
the western legend"; & named lifetime honorary president of Western
Writers of America in 1975. He was the
author of Born to Battle, Cowboy Poetry: Classic Poems & Ol’ S.O.B. Sez: Cowboy
Limericks. He is included in New Mexico In Verse, Sandscript
p. 19, Signature of the Sun; Southwest Verse, 1900-1950 & Turquoise
Land. For further information, see the NM Index, New Mexican Fiction &
New Mexican Children's Authors bibliographies.
BARLOW, CONNIE C. - Upper Gila author of Green Space, Green Time: the Way of Science & editor of Evolution Extended: Biological Debates on the Meaning of Life & From Gaia to Selfish Genes: Selected Writings in the Life Sciences
BARNES, CRAIG - part-time
BARNETT,
FRANKLIN - Arizona & NM fiction & nonfiction writer,
US Army veteran, archaeologist, cartographer, commercial designer, draftsman,
designer of laboratory equipment, & novelist of Crooked Arrow; a Novel
of Southwestern Prehistoric Indians of the 13th Century*, set in NM
BARNEY,
ROBERT KNIGHT - Director of the
Centre for Olympic Studies at the University of Western Ontario, London, Canada
& author of Turmoil & Triumph: a Narrative History of
Intercollegiate Athletics at the University of New Mexico & its Implication
in the Social History of the City of Albuquerque & the State &
Territory of New Mexico, 1889-1950
BARNHART, JAN DODSON -
BARNHART,
LAURA - In 1989 the author was
diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. In
2001, in response to the worsening of her MS, her husband divorced her. The
next year Laura moved into a nursing home in
BAROS, ALBERTO - Española artist, & woodcarver who is included in Ceremony of Brotherhood
BARRAZA, MANUEL FRED - NM State Library bookmobile driver who was born in Silver City, raised in Fort Bayard, now lives in Arenas Valley, NM; sculptor, painter, printer & illustrator of The Cactus Wren and the Cholla = El Reyezuelo y La Cholla. For further information, please see the NM Index.
BARREIRO, DON ANTONIO - Territorial official legal adviser & author included in Three New Mexico Chronicles
BARRETT, ELINORE M. - professor emeritus of geography at UNM & the author of The Mexican Colonial Copper Industry & Conquest & Catastrophe: Changing Rio Grande Pueblo Settlement Patterns in the Sixteenth & Seventeenth Centuries.
BARRON, REX - Albuquerque figurative painter, folk guitarist, film animator & illustrator of Eggbert, the Slightly Cracked Egg & Irma the Flying Bowling Ball
BARROW, THOMAS - UNM teacher, National Endowment Fellowship winner, & photographer of the Essential Landscape: the New Mexico Photographic Survey. See also Inventories and Transformations. For more information, see the NM Index.
BARRY, TOM - Albuquerque grass-roots & Latin American activist, a founder of the Resource Center, & author of Central America Fact Book & The Other Side of Paradise, & editor of Mexico, a Country Guide. For information on his children’s title, see the New Mexican Children’s Authors list.
BARTLETT, JENNIFER -
northern California-born, NM-raised, now Brooklyn high school English &
creative writing teacher who is included in In
Company: an Anthology of New Mexico Poets After 1960 p. 475+
BARTLETT, LEE -
BARTLIT,
NANCY R. - co-author with EVERETT M.
ROGERS of Silent Voices
of World War II: When Sons of the Land of Enchantment Met Sons of the
Land of the Rising Sun: the NM National Guard was the 1st US military unit
to fight the Japanese, holding on for 4 months on Bataan, & then suffering
through years in POW camps. The atomic bomb was developed in Los Alamos, &
tested near Alamogordo. Navajo code talkers helped capture bases from which
B-29s bombed Japanese cities. Several thousand Japanese Americans, classified
by the FBI as dangerous enemy aliens, were interned in a camp near Santa
Fe. Their stories, obtained through
personal interviews to supplement the historical record, illuminate the
patriotism, human suffering, & courageous humor in these important WWII
events. Bartlit
earned her masters in international communications from UNM, she taught in
BASON, LILLIAN -
BASS, CLARENCE - Albuquerque body-builder, teacher & author of Lean Advantage & Ripped
BASSO, KEITH -
BATCHEN, GEOFFREY - UNM photography professor & author of Burning With Desire: the Conception of Photography*
BATCHEN, LOU SAGE - Placitas author of Las Placitas: Historical Facts & Legends, based on her recollections, compiled originally in the 1930s under a WPA Writer's Project Grant. For more information, please see the NM Index.
BATKIN, JONATHAN -
BATON, MAISHA -
Albuquerque award-winning playwright, poet, existential psychologist, former
UNM teacher & author of a poetry collection: Dancing Shadows*,
collector & editor of Do Remember Me: Conversations With New Mexico's
Black History (an audio book), Do Remember Me 2 Black Seniors of
Albuquerque & Western New Mexico (a
CD) & History of Blackdom, N.M. in the Context of the African American Post
Civil War Colonization Movement. She
is also included in History of Hope: the African American Experience in New
Mexico & In Company: an Anthology of New Mexico Poets After 1960
p. 246+
BAUER,
BETTY E. - former Santa Fe, now
Scottsdale author of My City Different: a Half-Century in
Santa Fe. She & her partner, Marian
F. Love, founded & published The
Santa Fean Magazine from 1972 to 1994. She was very active in civic,
municipal & cultural pursuits, having served as the first woman President
of the Santa Fe Press Club (now defunct), the first woman President (now Chairman
of the Board) of the Santa Fe Chamber of Commerce, & President of the Santa
Fe Festival of the Arts
BAUER, PAUL W. - senior geologist & associate director at the NM Bureau of Geology & Mineral Resources in Socorro & contributor to Albuquerque: a Guide to Its Geology and Culture, 2003 ed., The Enchanted Circle, Loop Drives From Taos, Geology of the Santa Fe Region, New Mexico, Geology of Trampas Quadrangle, Picuris Mountains, Taos & Rio Arriba Counties, New Mexico, & Tectonic Development of the Southern Sangre de Cristo Mountains, New Mexico. For further information, please see the NM Index.
BAUGHMAN, LYNNETTE - Los Alamos mystery author of A Spy Within, a contemporary mystery set in Los Alamos & Thin Disguise (set in Las Vegas, Nev)
BAXTER,
ARDETH & WILLIAM - San Marcos authors,
he wrote The Gold of the Ortiz Mountains: a Story of New Mexico & the
West’s First Major Gold Rush* & together they edited Best of From
the Plaza. He’s an Ortiz Mountains
Educational Preserve docent for the
BAXTER, JOHN O. -
BAYLOR, BYRD - very popular Southwestern poet & writer, who lives in NM & Tucson, & is the author of, among other books, Amigo, Everybody Needs a Rock, Hawk, I’m Your Brother, One Small Blue Bead, & Other Way to Listen. For more information, see the NM Index.
BEACHAM, VAN - Taos founder & co-owner of Los Rios Anglers & who is included in Fly-Fishing in Northern New Mexico
BEASON, DOUG - Albuquerque Air Force major, physicist, director of the High Energy Plasma Laboratory at Kirtland AFB, techno-thriller author of Strike Eagle & co-author of Assemblers of Infinity, Ignition, Ill Wind (set partially in NM), & Virtual Destruction. He is also included in How to Save the World & War of the Worlds: Global Dispatches. For more information, please see the NM Index.
BEATH, MARY -
long-time
BEATTY,
JUDITH S. -
BEAUTIFUL PAINTED ARROW see RAEL, JOSEPH
BEAVEN, JAY SCOTT - former Albuquerque journalist, three-time winner of Canada's most honored film critic award, & biographer of Helen Hardin: Changing Woman (filed in the catalogs under SCOTT, JAY). For more information, see the NM Index.
BECHKO, (P. A.) PEGGY -
BECK, WARREN A. - former Eastern NM University historian, author of New Mexico: a History of Four Centuries & who is included in New Mexico, Past and Present; a Historical Reader
BECKER, ROBIN - part-time NM resident, poet, Associate Professor of English at Pennsylvania State University, some of whose work can be found in Another Desert: Jewish Poetry of New Mexico & Saludos!: Poemas de Nuevo Mexico
BEDICHEK, ROY - former Deming newspaperman & author who is included in Southwest Writers Anthology
BEERS, LAURA - award-winning short story author, poet & author who is included in Earth Chant & Spirit That Wants Me
BEGAY, HARRISON - Navajo painter who lives
part-time in Santa Fe, author of The Sacred Mountains of the Navajo: in Four
Paintings & illustrator of the Navajo children’s novel, A Hogan for
the Bluebird by Ann Crowell
BEGAY, SHONTO - Navajo artist & author of Navajo: Visions and Voices Across the Mesa & contributor to Collective Willeto: the Visionary Carvings of a Navajo Artist. For further information, see the NM Index & the New Mexican Children’s Authors list
BEGAY-FOSS, JOYCE - Navajo weaver, clothing designer, instructor of Navajo weaving & vegetal dye plants, director of the Museum of Indian Arts & Culture's Living Traditions Education Center, & author who is included in Navajo Saddle Blankets: Textiles to Ride in the American West.
BEHAN, MARGARET - Arapaho-Cheyenne author of San Juan Pueblo, who is included in Reinventing the Enemy’s Language: Contemporary Native Women’s Writings of North America
BEIMER, DOROTHY SIMPSON - NM Highlands University professor & author of Hovels, Haciendas and Housecalls, about a NM pioneer physician
BELIN, ESTHER -
Gallup-born Navajo film writer & producer, educated at the
BELLINGER, CINDY - Pecos homeowner, home improvement columnist for the Santa Fe New Mexican & author of Someone Stole My Outhouse, & who is included in Woven on the Wind: Women Write About Friendship in the Sagebrush West, p. 279
BELSHAW, JIM - Albuquerque humorist, Albuquerque Journal columnist & author of Semi-Native (filed in the catalogs under ARNHOLZ) & co-author of Closing the Chart: a Dying Physician Examines Family, Faith & Medicine with STEVEN D. HSI & BETH CORBIN-HSI
BENALLY, HERBERT JOHN - Shiprock teacher at Diné College & contributor to Photographing Navajos: John Collier, Jr. on the Reservation, 1948-1953. For more information, please see the NM Index.
BENALLY, TIMOTHY, SR. - Director of the Office of Navajo Uranium Workers, administrator of the Navajo Community College, author included in Coming to Light: Contemporary Translations of the Native Literatures of North America & Memories Come to Us in the Rain & the Wind: Oral Histories & Photographs of Navajo Uranium Miners and Their Families
BENAVIDES, ALONSO DE - Franciscan priest, journalist, explorer & author of Harvest of Reluctant Souls & Memorial of Fray Alonso de Benavides, 1630. For more information, see the NM Index.
BENEDICT, RUTH - deaf anthropologist of Zuni & Cochiti Pueblos & author of, among others, Chrysanthemum and the Sword, Patterns of Culture & Tales of the Cochiti Indians. For additional information, see also the NM Index.
BENKE,
RICHARD - Albuquerque Associated Press
reporter & author of Ghost Ocean, a deft, vivid mystery set in the remote Apache Wilderness
of southwestern NM & northern Mexico, starring Bureau of Land Management
ranger, Will Mann. Please see the NM
Index for further information.
BENNETT, CAROLYN C. - former Albuquerque freelance researcher & contributor to New Mexico in Maps
BENNETT, IVEN - UNM Geography professor & contributor to New Mexico in Maps
BENNETT, KAY - Gallup Navajo musician, artist & author of Kaibah: Recollection of a Navajo Girlhood & a novelization of her family’s history during the Bosque Redondo period: A Navajo Saga. For further information, please see the NM Index.
BENNETT, KELLY R. - professor at Southwestern College, in Santa Fe & author of Too Much, Too Little, Just Right: Manifest Your Potential and Power on the Middle Path. For further information, please see the NM Index.
BENNETT, NOËL -
BENNING, BARRY - Albuquerque novelist of The Unspoken Power of Rome*, about the origins of Christianity. For more information, please see the NM Index
BENRIMO, DOROTHY - Taos photographer, jeweler & author of Camposantos: a Photographic Essay. For more information, see the NM Index.
BENSINGER, CHARLES - Santa Fe author of PsyEarth Quest: a Prophetic Novel*. The author is a technical consultant
specializing in renewable energy, environmental education, & intercultural
collaboration. He is president of NewWorld Energy
Systems, a company that advises clients on renewable energy project development
& energy-related public policy. His previous books include Chaco
Journey: Remembrance and Awakening & Mayan Vision Quest: Mystical
Initiation in Mesoamerica.
BENTLEY, JON - former Texas resident, Associate Dean of Arts
& Sciences at Albuquerque’s TVI, publisher of Automatic Press;, poet of Hearing
Things*, Severe Charm*, New Poems 1985-1989*, & he is
included in In Company: an Anthology of New
Mexico Poets After 1960 p. 471+
BENTLEY, KAREN - pseudonym of KAREN TASCHEK,
Albuquerque young adult novelist of Horse of Seven Moons, set in 1880s
southwestern NM, about a pinto owned by a young Apache man & a fourteen
year old Anglo girl at the same time, & author of a children’s biography of
The Unsers. For further
information, please see the NM Index.
BENTON, ALICE GILL - Albuquerque author of two poetry collections: Janus Had Two Faces & See the Earth New; she is also included in Sandscript p. 95, Signature of the Sun; Southwest Verse, 1900-1950 & Turquoise Land
BERBERICK, NANCY VARIAN - Albuquerque fantasy author of several books in the highly popular Dragonlance series, A Child of Elvish; & she is also included in A Dragon-Lover's Treasury of the Fantastic, Earth, Air, Fire, Water & A Glory of Unicorns
BERG, CAMI - Santa Fe author of an alphabet book on endangered animals: D Is for Dolphin* & Sky Bear*
BERGERON, KENNETH D. - Albuquerque physicist who worked at Sandia National Labs for 25 years, & author of Tritium on Ice: the Dangerous New Alliance of Nuclear Weapons & Nuclear Power, which won ForeWord Magazine's award for the best book published in 2002 in the field of political science. For more information, please see the NM Index.
BERGTHOLD, LOIS - Albuquerque art director of the Chile Pepper magazine & co-author of Cody Coyote Cooks!
BERKENFIELD,
BARBARA J. - Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania-raised, Santa Fe free-lance writer, a docent at the living history
museum, El Rancho de las Golondrinas & author of Driving Toward the Moon: Poems*
BERKSON, D. LINDSEY - Santa Fe doctor of chiropractic medicine with a master's degree in nutrition. She founded the Berkson Clinic in California, lectures around the country & is the author of Healthy Digestion the Natural Way, Hormone Deception: How Everyday Foods & Products Are Disrupting Your Hormones - & How to Protect Yourself & Your Family & Natural Answers for Women's Health Questions: a Comprehensive A-Z Guide to Drug-Free Mind-Body Remedies
BERLANT, (Tony) ANTHONY - He, J.J. BRODY & STEVEN
A. LEBLANC, founded the Mimbres Foundation, in 1974, later the model
for the national US Archaeological Conservancy, to save Mimbres sites from
destruction. He’s a noted contemporary
artist, former Associate Director of the Mimbres Foundation &
co-author of The Navajo Blanket & Walk In Beauty: the Navajo and
Their Blankets; & a contributor to Mimbres Pottery: Ancient Art of the American Southwest: Essays.
BERLIN, LUCIA - UNM-educated short story author, now living in Boulder, who is included in Walking the Twilight: Women Writers of the Southwest
BERNAL, VICENTE - Costilla poet & prose author. For more information, see the NM Index.
BERNALILLO HIGH SCHOOL SOUTHWEST HISTORY
CLASS, 1974-75 - authors of Viva
el Pasado: a History of the Bernalillo Area
BERNARD, JANE - Santa Fe area photographer & co-author with POLLY BROWN of American Route 66: Home on the Road. Please see the NM Index for more information.
BERNE, SAMUEL A. - Santa Fe optometrist, who studied child development & learning disabilities at the Gesell Institute at Yale University & spent 3 years with Dr. Hazel Parcells, the "Grande Dame of Alternative Medicine". After her death he became one of the founding fellows of the Parcells Center for Personal Transformation, an educational organization. He wrote Without Ritalin: A Natural Approach to ADD* & Creating Your Personal Vision*, a holistic self-help book to improve one's vision
BERNELL, SUE - Albuquerque paperback mystery & historical romance novels co-author
BERNSTEIN, BRUCE - Santa Fe’s chief curator & assistant director of the Museum of Indian Arts & Culture, Laboratory of Anthropology, & author of Modern By Tradition: American Indian Painting in the Studio Style
BERNSTEIN, JOEL H. - Magdalena resident & co-author with Tom Bryant of Taste of Texas Ranching: Cooks and Cowboys* & who is included in Enduring Cowboys: Life in the New Mexico Saddle
BERRY, DAWN BRADLEY - Albuquerque civil rights lawyer, legal researcher & author of Equal Compensation for Women & The 50 Most Influential Women in Law
BERRY, SUSAN - co-author of Built to Last: an Architectural History of Silver City, New Mexico
BERSSENBRUGGE, MEI-MEI - Abiquiu Asian-American poet & author of Empathy*, Four Year Old Girl & Sphericity*; some of her other work can also be found in The Before Columbus Foundation Poetry Anthology, Breaking Silence, an Anthology of Contemporary Asian American Poets, In Company: an Anthology of New Mexico Poets After 1960 p. 277+, New Mexico Poetry Renaissance & Open Boat: Poems From Asian America. For more information, please see the NM Index.
BERTHOLD, RICHARD - history professor at UNM, co-designer of Republic of Rome, a diplomacy game, & author of other books on the Classical world, including Rhodes In the Hellenistic Age*
BERTRAND,
JEAN-MICHEL - author
of Special Shape Rodeo: Kodak Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta
BETHUNE, MARTHA FALL - NM author of a biography of her grandfather, Albert B. Fall: Race With the Wind
BIALY,
BICE, RICHARD A. - NM archaeologist & co-author of The Albuquerque Archaeological Society's First Twenty-Five Years, 1966-1991, An Early Basketmaker Campsite: Report on Site AS-1, a Field Project of the Albuquerque Archaeological Society, Indian Mining of Lead for Use in Rio Grande Glaze Paint: Report of the AS-5 Bethsheba Project near Cerrillos, New Mexico & Prieta Vista; a Small Pueblo III Ruin in North-Central New Mexico; a Report of the Excavation of the AS-3 Site by the Albuquerque Archaeological Society in Cooperation with Eastern New Mexico University. He also contributed to The First 100 Years: Papers in Honor of the State & Local Archaeological Societies of New Mexico
BIEBEL, CHARLES D. - UNM associate professor of the American Studies Department, author of Making the Most of It: Public Works in Albuquerque During the Great Depression & contributor to New Mexico in Maps
BIEBERMAN, ROBERT - Socorro Senior Petroleum Geologist for the New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources & contributor to New Mexico in Maps
BIEN, THOMAS & BEVERLY -
BIGHORSE, TIANA - Navajo weaver, named "1991 Navajo of the Year" for her contributions to the safeguarding of Navajo Culture, author of her autobiography, Bighorse the Warrior & co-author of Navajo Weaving Way: the Path From Fleece to Rug
BILLINGTON, MONROE LEE - NMSU professor emeritus of history & author of African Americans on the Western Frontier & New Mexico’s Buffalo Soldiers. For more information, see: Victory In World War II: the New Mexico Story & the NM Index.
BINFORD, LEWIS - UNM professor emeritus who pioneered the discipline, ethnoarchaeology, which involves studying living people to get insights into the record of past peoples; & author of many technical archaeological books. For further information, see Conversations with Lew Binford
BINGHAM, CARLA JEANNE - Albuquerque award-winning writer of novels, nonfiction books, essays, short stories, book reviews, poetry, articles, & radio plays; recently she taught writing at UNM, & was a registered nurse
BINGHAM, SALLIE - award-winning author of short stories, poetry, plays & novelist of Cory's Feast: a Novel*, set in Taos, part murder mystery, part adventure, this novel traces the mature lives of Cory & her much more conventional sister Apple, who first appeared in the author’s Matron of Honor. She’s also written another romance, Straight Man, & Passion & Prejudice: a Family Memoir
BIRD, GLORIA - Santa Fe Spokane poet; creative writing & literature teacher at the Institute of American Indian Arts; winner of the North American Native Authors First Book Award; author of Full Moon on the Reservation*, editor of Reinventing the Enemy’s Language p. 40+ & p. 157+; & she is included in Dancing on the Rim of the World, Getting Over the Color Green: Contemporary Environmental Literature of the Southwest, Here First, Returning the Gift, Speaking for the Generations: Native Writers on Writing & Talking Leaves: Contemporary Native American Short Stories
BIRD, SARAH - former Albuquerque author of several very funny novels, including Alamo House: Women Without Men, Men Without Brains, Boyfriend School, Mommy Club, Virgin of the Rodeo & Yokota Officers' Club
BIRD-ROMERO, ALLISON -
BISHOP, HAZEL H. - Albuquerque poet who is included in Turquoise Land
BISHOP, ROSS - Santa Fe healing shaman & author of Healing the Shadow
BLACK, BAXTER - raised near Las Cruces, cowboy poet, syndicated columnist, an irregular commentator on National Public Radio, novelist of Buckskin Mare, Hey, Cowboy, Wanna Get Lucky?, A Rider, a Roper and a Heck’uva Windmill Man; & essayist of Cactus Tracks and Cowboy Philosophy. For more information, see the NM Index.
BLACK, DARYL A. - Tres Piedras freelance photographer, writer & author of
BLACKER, IRWIN R. - although
not a NM author, he wrote a historical novel about Popé
& the Pueblo Revolt in Taos: a Novel. For more information, please see the NM Index.
BLACKMON, JEAN - Corrales author included in There’s No Place Like Home for the Holidays: Stories, Poems and Family Fare*
BLAISDELL, GUS - former editor at UNM Press, a member of UNM’s
faculty in Media Arts, ran the Living Batch Press & Drive He Said Books,
& was a poet who is included in In
Company: an Anthology of New Mexico Poets After 1960 p. 253+
BLAKE, MICHAEL - former ENMU & UNM student, author of the screenplay & novel, Dances With Wolves, Holy Road (the sequel to Dances With Wolves), an Air Force novel, Airman Mortensen (set in NM), & a historical novel, Marching to Valhalla: a Novel of Custer's Last Days. For more information, see the NM Index.
BLAKEMORE, SALLY - Santa Fe co-author of I Really Want a Dog, & illustrator of Algebra Survival Guide: a Conversational Handbook for the Thoroughly Befuddled by JOSH RAPPAPORT, Frogs by SARAH LOVETT, Kidding Around Boston: a Young Person's Guide by Helen Byers, Kidding Around Chicago: a Young Person's Guide by Lauren Davis, Kidding Around New York City: a Young Person's Guide by SARAH LOVETT, Kidding Around Santa Fe: a Young Person's Guide by Susan York, Lucy's Journey to the Wild West: a True Story by CHARLOTTE PIEPMEIER, Primates by SARAH LOVETT, Reptiles by SARAH LOVETT, & Spiders by SARAH LOVETT.
BLANCHARD, NANETTE - East Mountain professional writer, recipe developer who has written for Food & Wine, Cooking Light, Vegetarian Times & Vegetarian Gourmet. She has also written 'Tis the Season: a Vegetarian Christmas Cookbook
BLEA, IRENE - UNM's Director of Hispanic Student Services, poet & author. For additional information, see: Infinite Divisions: an Anthology of Chicana Literature
BLISS, JOY V. - Albuquerque physician, lawyer, & co-author with her husband, G.L. DYBWAD, of James A. Michener: the Beginning Teacher and His Textbooks
BLITZ, STANLEY J. - Albuquerque author of Bandstand: the Untold Story*, about the origins of the popular 1950's & 60's TV dance show
BLOCK, GAY - Santa Fe author of Bertha Alyce: Mother Exposed, & photographer of Rescuers: Portraits of Moral Courage in the Holocaust & White Fire: a Portrait of Women Spiritual Leaders in America. For more information, please see the NM Index.
BLOOM, CLARE CELIA - Albuquerque poet who is included in Earth Chant, Sanscript p.16 & Turquoise Land
BLOOM, LANSING BARTLETT - author, historian of the Spanish colonial period, editor of the New Mexico Historical Review & A History of the Mesilla Valley, & assistant director of the Museum of New Mexico. For more information, see the NM Index.
BLOUIN,
NICOLE - Santa Fe cyclist, editor & author of Mountain
Biking Albuquerque & Road Biking New Mexico
BLUEEYES, GEORGE - Navajo medicine man & author included in Home Places: Contemporary Native American Writing from Sun Tracks
BLUEHORSE, ELIZABETH - Gallup-area-born, now Albuquerque novelist of the Scottish novel, A View From the Hill & the native American novel, Grandfather’s Dream
BLUESTEIN, JANE - Albuquerque nationally known speaker on parenting; teacher, self-esteem expert, counselor, Ph.D., & author of Creating Emotionally Safe Schools; a Guide for Educators & Parents, Mentors, Masters, and Mrs. MacGregor: Stories of Teachers Making a Difference, Parents In a Pressure Cooker, Parents, Teens, and Boundaries: How to Draw the Line, & Rx - Handwriting. For more information, please see the NM Index.
BLUESTONE, ROBERT - classical guitarist & author who is included in The Spirit That Wants Me
BLUME, JUDY - very popular, former Los Alamos & Santa Fe author of adult, young adult & children's books, including Smart Women, Tiger Eyes (which is set in NM) & Wifey. For more information, see the NM Index & New Mexican Children's Authors bibliography.
BLUMENSCHEIN, HELEN GREENE - NM anthropologist & contributor to Prehistory
& History in the Southwest
BODIO, STEPHEN -
Magdalena naturalist & author of books & articles on nature, sport
& NM life, including Eagle Dreams: Searching for Legends in
Wild Mongolia, On the Edge of the Wild: Passions and Pleasures of a
Naturalist, Querencia & Rage for
Falcons. He is also included in Getting Over the Color Green:
Contemporary Environmental Literature of the Southwest & The Best
American Travel Writing 2002. For more information, see the NM Index.
BODNER, RICHARD - northern NM founder of the Land of Enchantment Poetry Theater, some of whose work can be found in Saludos!: Poemas de Nuevo Mexico
BOGGIO, SUE- Albuquerque co-novelist with MARE PEARL, of Sunlight & Shadow, a
cross-cultural love story, set in NM. She is a UNM Health Center registered
nurse & Mare is a UNM mental health technician. They have been friends for
40 years & have won numerous writing contests & awards together. They
have been active members of the Southwest Writers Workshop since 1993.
This is their first novel. Please see the NM Index for further
information.
BOGGS, JOHNNY D. - prolific Santa Fe author, winner of a Spur Award for the Best Western Short Fiction in 2001, for a short story collected in American West: Twenty New Stories From the Western Writers of America; 2004 winner of the Western Heritage Award from the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum for Spark on the Prairie: the Trial of the Kiowa Chiefs, western novelist of the Hannah & the Horseman series, which are mostly set in Texas; his NM titles include Foundation of the Law, a powerful & poignant novel, set in Elizabethtown, Law of the Land: the Trial of Billy the Kid, & Ten and Me, a Texas Ranger novel, set partially in NM. Please see the NM Index for further information.
BOHNAKER, JOSEPH J. - author of Of Arms I Sing, a dramatic & adventurous novel based on the historic 17th century settlement of NM by Juan de Oñate, based on the work of Gaspar Perez de Villagra (NM’s 1st poet)
BOISSIERE, ROBERT - born in Paris, France, he came to the United States after World War II. A member of the French army, he was imprisoned in a Nazi prison camp from which he managed to escape & join a group of Basques. After moving to California, Boissiere found himself on an artistic & spiritual pilgrimage to the Hopi villages. There he was adopted by a Hopi family & became a participant in their cultural life. The Hopi Way: an Odyssey & Meditations with the Hopi are based on his first-hand experiences. He also wrote Po Pai Mo: the Search for White Buffalo Woman, an autobiographical account of his life among the Hopis & subsequently his life at Taos Pueblo. Following his marriage to a Taos Indian woman, he became the first white man to live at the Pueblo. Boissiere is the proprietor of Chez Robert, a restaurant in Cuyamungue. He’s a northern NM Living Treasure. For more information, see the NM Index
BONDS, PARRIS AFTON - Hobbs & Rio Rancho famous romance novelist of Blue Moon (a romance about a young journalist who interviewed Pancho Villa, during his incursions into NM), Dust Devil* (romance/ historical fiction), Made for Each Other*, Renegade Man* (set in Silver City), Run to Me* (a Navajo romance), That McKenna Woman* (set in Las Cruces), When the Heart Is Right* (a 1920's romance set in Taos, about a young tubercular woman who leaves her Washington father & husband to find her salvation among the intellectual community & a Taos Pueblo shaman) & Widow Woman* (set in Lordsburg). For more information, see the NM Index.
BONES, JIM - Tesuque naturalist, photographer & author of Contemporary Texas: a Photographic Portrait, Rio Grande: Mountains to the Sea & Texas West of the Pecos
BONNETT, O.T. - Raton physician & author of Why Healing Happens*
BONNETTE, JEANNE - Albuquerque TV producer, author of Leaf Change; New and Selected Poems & Pueblo Poems, & is included in Earth Chant, Sandscript p. 84 & Turquoise Land
BONNEY, CECIL - southern NM rancher & author of Looking Over My Shoulder; Seventy-Five Years in the Pecos Valley
BONO,
SAM - author of The National Atomic Museum: America's
Museum Resource for Nuclear Science & History
BOOKY, ALBERT R. -
retired
BOON, DONALD J. - Albuquerque retired physician, poet & author of Coming of Coyote: a Southwestern Odyssey
BOONE, STEVEN - Santa Fe painter & author of A Heart Traced in Sand, Reflections on a Daughter's Struggle for Life*, about Naomi Boone's healing quest, which led to her death from cancer at age 19
BOREN, TERRY - NM-raised author of science fiction, nonfiction & poetry, some of whose work can be found in Tierra: Contemporary Short Fiction of New Mexico, Very Large Array: New Mexico Science Fiction and Fantasy & Voices From the Rio Grande
BORMAN, FRANK - Las Cruces’ astronaut & author of Countdown: an Autobiography. For more information, please see the NM Index.
BOROUGH, REX DENVER - Santa Fe retired printer
& author of a novel about the 1st NM woman governor, 1st NM Congresswoman,
who runs for the US presidency, in A Woman's Place, set partially in
Albuquerque, Santa Fe & her hometown, “Caprock
City” in eastern NM
BOSSI, KARL R. - Albuquerque Air Force
author of Just Call Me Moose! Growing Up Italian in America*, from the
streets of
BOSTROM, BONNIE S. - the Chief of Education for the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation & a member of the Alabama Band of Cherokee. She is currently a Doctoral Candidate in Leadership & Educational Administration from UNM, & a poet who collaborated with sculptor Joan Baliker, on The Wayshowers*, a spiritual handbook which delivers images of people such as Gandhi & Mother Teresa, along with companion pieces of poetry for each image. For more information, please see the NM Index.
BOSTWICK, GENE - Santa Fe author of science fiction short stories, some of which are included in Armory of Swords
BOSWELL, ROBERT - NMSU English professor, husband of novelist, ANTONYA NELSON, & author of American Owned Love, Century's Son, Dancing in the Movies, Mystery Ride & Crooked Hearts, which was made into a 1991 movie
BOSWORTH, FRANK - NM author of Bear-Claw Range. He also writes under the name, LAUREN PAINE
BOURGEOIS, JEAN-LOUIS - Taos
architectural historian & author of Spectacular Vernacular: a New
Appreciation of Traditional Desert Architecture & Spectacular
Vernacular: the Adobe Tradition, illustrated by his late wife, the
photographer CAROLEE
PELOS
BOVÉ, PHIL -
BOVERIE, PATRICIA - Associate Professor of Organizational Learning & Instructional Technologies at UNM & co-author of Transforming Work: the Five Keys to Achieving Trust, Commitment & Passion in the Workplace. For more information, please see the NM Index.
BOWMAN, JON - former editor of New Mexico Magazine, playwright, editor of & author who is included in 100 Years of Filmmaking in New Mexico 1898-1998. For additional information, please see the NM Index.
BOWRA, GEORGE B. - NM poet who is included in New Mexico In Verse
BOYCE, GEORGE A. - Santa Fe science & math teacher, a director of several
Navajo schools, superintendent of Intermountain Indian School, developed &
served as superintendent of a program for the Institute of American Indian Arts
& author
of the 1974 children’s short story collection, Some People Are Indians
BOYD, E. (ELIZABETH) -
Santa Fe expert on Hispanic arts, crafts & architecture. For many years she
was the curator emeritus of Spanish Colonial Arts for the Museum of New Mexico.
She wrote Camposantos, Hispanic Arts and
Ethnohistory in the Southwest, New Mexico Santos, Popular Arts of
Spanish New Mexico, Portfolio of Spanish Colonial Design in New Mexico&
Saints and Saint Makers of
BOYD, MARY LEOLA - NM poet who is included in New Mexico In Verse
BOYKIN, ED - Las Cruces author, former Farmington High School principal, & memoirist of Principal of the Thing*
BRADBURY, ELLEN -
BRADBURY, NORRIS - long-time director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory & author included in Reminiscences of Los Alamos, 1943-1945. For more information, see the NM Index.
BRADFORD, RICHARD - Santa Fe novelist of the beloved Santa Fe novel & movie, Red Sky at Morning & the hilarious land grant romance, So Far From Heaven set on the Juan Tafoya Grant, in mythical Pozo Verde, between Santa Fe & Taos. For more information, see the NM Index. He’s the son of ROARK BRADFORD.
BRADFORD, ROARK - Santa Fe novelist of John Henry & Ol’ Man Adam an’ His Chillun
BRADLEY, DAVID - Santa Fe-based Chippewa artist & illustrator of Joan Weisman’s Pueblo picture book, The Storyteller
BRADLEY, DENISE - Albuquerque author of several medical works, including Sweet Recovery & What Does It Feel Like to Have Diabetes?
BRADLEY, JERRY - associate professor of Humanities at NM Tech, former editor of the New Mexico Humanities Review & author who is included in Spirit That Wants Me
BRAGG, BEA -
BRAND, REBECCA - Albuquerque author of the horror/romance novel, The Ruby Tear a vampire novel set in the NYC theater world. She also writes under the name: SUZY MCKEE CHARNAS
BRANDI, JOHN - El Rito
poet, painter, collage artist, essayist, & author of Cowboy From Phantom
Banks, Hymn for a Night Feast, In What Disappears, No
Other Business Here, Reflections in the Lizard's Eye: Notes From the
High Desert & That
BRANHAM
MARY -
BRANSON, OSCAR T. - Santa Fe owner of The Treasure Chest, a native
arts store & owner of Treasure Chest Publications. He later moved the publishing business to
Tucson, & leaving his business to his son-in-law, retired to Las
Cruces. He’s written Fetishes &
Carvings of the Southwest, Hopi Indian Kachina Dolls, Indian
Jewelry Making & Turquoise, the Gem of the Centuries
BRASCOUPE, CLAYTON - Mohawk organic farmer who uses traditional methods
on his farm at Tesuque Pueblo, & a contributor to A People's Ecology:
Explorations in Sustainable Living
BREATHED, BERKE - wickedly caustic cartoonist who won the Pulitzer Prize, his syndicated "Bloom County" appeared in many newspapers, & who lived briefly in Albuquerque. He's the author of Bloom County Babylon: Five Years of Basic Naughtiness, Billy and the Boingers Bootleg, Classics of Western Literature: Bloom County, 1986-1989, The Night of the Mary Kay Commandos & 'Toons for Our Times: a Bloom County Book of Heavy Meadow Rump 'n Roll. For more information, please see the NM Index & New Mexican Children's Authors
BREEZE, CARLA - NM-born art-deco expert who spent many years in NYC, now, again, Albuquerque-based architectural photographer & author of American Art Deco: Modernistic Architecture & Regionalism & Pueblo Deco: the Art Deco Architecture of the Southwest. For more information, please see the NM Index.
BREWER, ROBERT - photographer of Persistence of Memory: New Mexico Churches
BREWER, STEVE - former Albuquerque Journal feature writer
& author of a funny mystery series about the Albuquerque private eye, Bubba
Mabry: Baby Face, Lonely Street, Witchy
Woman, Shaky Ground, Dirty Pool & Crazy Love. Bubba
is also included in The Last Noel with the novella, Sanity Clause (a paperback, filed in Fiction under the title). Brewer is the author of companion novels
starring Albuquerque sportswriter & editor, Drew Gavin, in End Run
& Cheap Shot, & the stand-alone mysteries, Boost (set in
Albuquerque), Bullets (set partially in Albuquerque) & Fool's
Paradise. He
also has another book Trophy Husband: a Survival Guide to Working at Home,
a humorous collection of his weekly columns in the Albuquerque Tribune.
For more information, please see the NM Index.
BREWSTER, SUSAN -
BRIGHT, ROBERT - Taos resident for several years, who wrote the NM Hispanic village novel, The Life and Death of Little Jo. For information on his children’s titles, see the New Mexican Children’s Authors list. For more information, please see the NM Index.
BRILEY, ALICE - Albuquerque poet of the collection, From a Weaver’s Shuttle, who is included in Earth Chant, Sandscript p. 54, Signature of the Sun; Southwest Verse, 1900-1950 & Turquoise Land; & editor of Encore! Encore! a Selection of Poetry from Encore, a Quarterly of Verse & Poetic Arts
BRILEY, ELAINE - Albuquerque poet who is included in Sandscript p. 66 & Turquoise Land. She also writes under the name, GARCIA, ELAINE BRILEY
BRILEY, RON - Sandia Preparatory School assistant headmaster, long-time professor of history, baseball historian & author of Class at Bat, Gender on Deck & Race in the Hole: a Line-Up of Essays on Twentieth Century Culture & America's Game. For more information, please see the NM Index.
BRINIG, MYRON - Taos novelist who published between 1929 -1958, including Wide Open Town, a Novel*. For more information, see the NM Index.
BROADHEAD, RONALD F. - Socorro petroleum geologist for the New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, author of Petroleum Geology of Pennsylvanian and Lower Permian Strata, Stratigraphically Controlled Gas Production from Abo Red Beds, Subsurface Geology and Oil and Gas Potential of Estancia Basin, New Mexico, & Subsurface Petroleum Geology of Santa Rosa Sandstone & contributor to New Mexico in Maps
BROCK, LUCILE REID -
author of
BRODE, BERNICE - wife of a Manhattan Project physicist, author of Tales of Los Alamos, Life on the Mesa, 1943-1945 & who is included in Reminiscences of Los Alamos, 1943-1945. For more information, see the NM Index.
BRODY, J.J. - UNM Professor Emeritus in the Department of Art
& Art History, former director of UNM’s Maxwell Museum, expert on
Southwestern Native American pottery, winner of the Lifetime Achievement in the
Humanities award, presented by the New Mexico Endowment for the Humanities;
& author of Anasazi and Pueblo Painting, Mimbres Painted Pottery,
Pueblo Indian Painting: Tradition and Modernism in New Mexico, 1900-1930
& To Touch the Past: the Painted Pottery of the Mimbres People; he
is also included in Legacy: Southwest Indian Art at the School of American
Research, Mimbres Pottery:
Ancient Art of the American Southwest: Essays, New Light on Chaco Canyon, & The Road to Aztlan:
Art From a Mythic Homeland. He, ANTHONY BERLANT &
STEVEN A. LEBLANC founded the Mimbres
Foundation, in 1974, later the model for the national US Archaeological
Conservancy, to save Mimbres sites from destruction. For further information, please see
the New Mexico Index.
BRONITSKY, GORDON -
BRONSON, CARY -
BROWN, F. WASHINGTON - Hatch-born, former Air Force maintenance employee on intercontinental ballistic missiles, served as a crewmember on a B-47, America's first all-jet bomber, & worked as a crew chief on the F-I00 Super-saber jet fighter. He was instrumental in the deployment of the SR-71 Blackbird jet. After returning to the states, he landed a job at Holloman A.F.B. Later he rejoined government as a D.O.D civilian employee, working with research & develop-ment at White Sands Missile Range. He is currently assigned as a Target-Control-Officer, working with drone targets. He is also an Alamogordo horror author of Mephisto Shadows*, Zombeast*, Hot Sand & Cold Blood*. For more information, please see the NM Index.
BROWN, FREDRIC - novelist who lived in the Taos area for 3 years; he wrote mysteries & science fiction, as well as short stories, including, And the Gods Laughed, Carnival of Crime: the Best Mystery Stories of Fredric Brown, From These Ashes: the Complete Short SF of Fredric Brown, Homicide Sanitarium & Night of the Jabberwock
BROWN, LORIN W. - Taos-raised artist, employed by the NM Federal Writers' Project & author of Hispano Folklife of New Mexico
BROWN, MALCOLM - painter, sculptor, musician, poet & author who is included in The Spirit That Wants Me
BROWN, MARY - Albuquerque author & mother of Little Point Guard: the Greg Brown Story, UNM’s 1994 WAC Player of the Year
BROWN, MARY VIRGINIA - Alamogordo resident, teacher & author of Thirteenth Summer*
BROWN,
PAMELA - pseudonym of BONNY CELINE
HOLDER, novelist of My Erotic
Adventures with Billy the Kid*. For
further information, please see the NM Index.
BROWN, PATRICIA - Santa Fe clinical psychologist, poet & musician. For more information, see Artists of the Spirit by Mary Carroll Nelson
BROWN, POLLY - Santa Fe area photographer & co-author with JANE BERNARD of American Route 66: Home on the Road. For more information, please see the NM Index.
BROWN, SAM - Texas cowboy (who worked on NM ranches), newspaperman & author of compelling westerns, including, Devil’s Rim, set on a southeastern NM Territory ranch
BROWN, TOMÁS WESLEY - Quay Co.-raised memoirist of Heritage of the New Mexico Frontier*. For more information, please see the NM Index.
BROWNE, DIANA A. - Santa Fe painter & poet who is included in Turquoise Land
BROWNE, VEE - Navajo author of Monster Birds: a Navajo Folktale, Monster Slayer: a Navajo Folktale, & who is also included in Neon Pow-Wow
BROWNING, IBEN - Cedar
Crest's climate & geology expert; & author of Climate and the
Affairs of Men
BRUCE, HANK - Rio Rancho organizer of Garden Grow Away, a
non-profit organization, which promotes the use of innovative gardening methods
to combat hunger. The organization
conducts research & promotes the use of crops such as moringa,
marama beans, Okinawa spinach & others to address
nutritional needs in many poor countries.
He is also the author of Gardening Projects for Horticultural Therapy*,
Garden Projects for the Classroom*, Gardening for the Senses*, Gardening
Trivia* & Global Gardening*
BRUGGE, DAVID M. -
Albuquerque anthropologist, staff curator for the Southwest Region of the
National Park Service & author of A
History of the Chaco Navajos, Hubbell Trading Post: National Historic
Site, The Navajo-Hopi Land Dispute: an American Tragedy, Tsegai: an Archeological Ethnohistory of the
Chaco Region; co-edited Archeological Surveys of Chaco Canyon, New
Mexico, co-edited & contributed to Navajo Religion & Culture:
Selected Views: Papers in Honor of Leland C. Wyman; edited In Search of
Chaco: New Approaches to an Archaeological Enigma & New Light
on Chaco Canyon; contributed to In
Search of Chaco: New Approaches to an Archaeological Enigma & Native Peoples of the Southwest: Negotiating
Land, Water, & Ethnicities
BRYAN, HOWARD - long-time Albuquerque Tribune journalist, travel author, historian & author of Incredible Elfego Baca, Robbers, Rogues, and Ruffians, Tours For All Seasons, & Wildest of the Wild West
BRYAN, J.B. - North
Valley Albuquerque painter, free-lance graphic designer, publisher of La
Alameda Press, author of the poetry collection, How Can I Follow My
Beautiful Dreams*, Lush in the Eddies*, Chlorophyl
Way Lulu* & who is included in In
Company: an Anthology of New Mexico Poets After 1960 p. 376+ & XY
Files: Poems on the Male Experience
BRYER, DIANA -
BUCHANAN, WILLIAM J. - Albuquerque's award-winning novelist & nonfiction author, one of whose most popular books is A Shining Season, about the local teacher & coach, John Baker; while Running Toward the Light, is about George Mendoza, blind Las Cruces world-class runner
BUCHSBAUM, WILLIAM M. - Santa Fe author of The Little Book of Big Profits* & Blue Chip Stocks*
BUCK, JOAN JULIET - Santa Fe novelist of Daughter of the Swan & The Only Place To Be, writer for The New Yorker & Vanity Fair, & fomer editor of French Vogue. For more information, please see the NM Index.
BUFIS, PAUL - Santa Fe contractor & poet, some of whose work can be found in The Practice of Peace, Saludos!: Poemas de Nuevo Mexico & XY Files: Poems on the Male Experience
BULLIS, DON - Albuquerque special agent with the New Mexico Department of Public Safety’s Criminal Intelligence Section, author of New Mexico’s Finest: Peace Officers Killed in the Line of Duty, 99 New Mexicans... & a Few Other Folks: Ellos Pasaron Por Aqui (They Passed By Here), & novelist of Bloodville, a historical novel about the life, murder & investigation of Bud Rice, in Budville, between Laguna & Grants. For further information, see the NM Index.
BULLOCK, ALICE - Raton-raised, Santa Fe teacher, journalist, artist & author of many books on NM folklore, including Monumental Ghosts, Mountain Villages, Squaw Tree: Ghosts, Mysteries and Miracles of New Mexico; & a northern NM Living Treasure. For more information, see the NM Index
BULLOCK, PETER YOSHIO - staff archaeologist with the Museum of NM & contributor to Deciphering Anasazi Violence
BULOW, ERNIE - Gallup teacher, storyteller, playwright & author of Navajo Taboos, Talking Mysteries & Sleight of Hand
BUNDY, KIM -
BUNTING, BAINBRIDGE - Santa Fe architectural historian, UNM professor of art & author of several highly respected works on Southwestern architecture, including Early Architecture in New Mexico, Of Earth and Timbers Made, Taos Adobes & a biography of John Gaw Meem, Southwestern Architect. He is also included in Bicentennial ‘76 Albuquerque Remembers
BUNZEL, RUTH - anthropologist of Zuni Pueblo & author of The Pueblo Potter; a Study of Creative Imagination, Zuni Ceremonialism & Zuni Katcinas; an Analytical Study. For more information, see the NM Index.
BURBANK, JAMES C. - Albuquerque journalist, poet & author of Vanishing Lobo; some of his other work can be found in Spirit That Wants Me & Tarasque II
BURBANK, JIM - Albuquerque author of Retirement New Mexico
BURKE, JENIE LEE, JR. - Hobbs former superintendent of Jal Public Schools, former president of the College of the Southwest, & poet who is included in Sandscript p. 67 & Turquoise Land
BURKS, BRIAN - Tularosa rancher & co-author with GARY PAULSEN of the excellent western series: Murphy's Am-bush, Murphy's Stand & Murphy's Trail. For more information on his award-winning young adult titles, see the NM Children’s Authors list.
BURLESON, DONALD R. - Roswell novelist who’s written several interesting books about the results of the UFO crash near Corona, in Flute Song, about the causes of the UFO crash, in Arroyo & UFOs & The Murder of Marilyn Monroe*. For more information, please see the NM Index.
BURNS, DIANE - Anishnabe/Chemehuevi poet, painter (educated in Santa Fe) & children’s nonfiction author of Cranberries: Fruit of the Bogs, Elephants Never Forget, Snakes Alive! & Sugaring Season. She is also included in Songs From This Earth on Turtle's Back
BURNS, PATRICK - a singer, songwriter, & music teacher in northern New Mexico & editor of In the Shadow of Los Alamos: Selected Writings of Edith Warner
BURROUGHS, JEAN M. - Portales’ wife of a former NM governor; children's author, historian of Tales of Twining and Taos Ski Valley, novelist of Bride of the Santa Fe Trail & biographer of On the Trail: the Life and Tales of "Lead Steer" Potter. She is also included in Sandscript p. 28 & Turquoise Land
BUSH, BARNY - Shawnee poet, educated in Santa Fe, who is included in Harper’s Anthology of 20th Century Native American Poetry, I Tell You Now: Autobiographical Essays by Native American Writers, & Returning the Gift. For more information, see the NM Index.
BUSH, BARRIE - founder of the organization "Fish New Mexico" & who is included in Fly-Fishing in Northern New Mexico
BUSKIRK, WINFRED - Albuquerque anthropologist & author of The Western Apache: Living With the Land Before 1950
BUSS, FRAN LEEPER - Las Vegas United Church of Christ minister & author of La Partera: Story of a Midwife, the life & works of Jesusita Aragón, one of the last Hispanic midwives in San Miguel County
BUTEL, JANE -
internationally known
BUTLER, LUTHER - Nara Visa area-born ranch novelist of the Preacher
BYNNER, WITTER - acclaimed Santa Fe poet & author of many
titles, including Light Verse and Satires & Prose Pieces. He
is probably best known for his translation of The Jade Mountain: a Chinese
Anthology Being the Poems of the Tang Dynasty, 618-906*, the 1st vol. of
Chinese poetry to be translated in full by an American poet. He is also included in In
Company: an Anthology of
BYRNES, PATRICIA - Albuquerque co-author of Southwestern Arts and Crafts Projects
C. DE BACA, ELBA - Las Vegas retired school teacher & author who is included in Las Mujeres Hablan
C. DE BACA, MANUEL - northern NM author of the poem, Vicente Silva y Sus 40 Bandidos. For more information, see the NM Index.
C’DE BACA, JANET -
CABEZA DE BACA, FABIOLA - La Liendre-born novelist, memoirist, author of the 1st authentic New Mexican recipe collection, popularizer of Hispanic & Indian crafts, home economics expert & Peace Corps. consultant. For more information, see the NM Index & Multicultural Southwest: a Reader. More information on her can be found under GILBERT, FABIOLA CABEZA DE BACA
CABLE, MARY - Santa Fe novelist & author of books on American history & art, including American Manners & Morals, Tell Me the Truth About Love (a romance set in Santa Fe), & Top Drawer: American High Society
CADIEUX, CHARLES L. -
Albuquerque editor, wildlife & outdoor life author of Coyotes, Predators
and Survivors, Great RV Trips, & These Are the Endangered
CAFFEY, DAVID L. -
Clovis vice president for instruction at Clovis Community College, editor of Yellow
Sun, Bright Sky: the Indian Country Stories of Oliver LaFarge
& author of Head for the High Country & Land of Enchantment,
Land of Conflict: New Mexico in English-Language Fiction.
CAIN, M.J. - Albuquerque journalist & author of Near Horizons: a Weekender's Guide to Easy Getaways from Albuquerque. For further information, please see the NM Index.
CAJETE, GREGORY - Santa Clara Pueblo UNM professor of education who edited & contributed to The Institute of American Indian Arts* & A People’s Ecology: Explorations in Sustainable Living, & author of Igniting the Sparkle*, Look to the Mountain, & Native Science*. He’s the former chair of Cultural Studies & dean of the Center for Research & Cultural Exchange at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe
CALLENDER, JONATHAN F. - Albuquerque Director of the NM Museum of Natural History, co-author of Archaeology and History of Santa Fe Country, & contributor to New Mexico in Maps
CALLON, MILTON W. - former Las Vegas singer, historian & author of Las Vegas, New Mexico...the Town That Wouldn't Gamble
CALVIN, ROSS - Clovis, then Albuquerque professor, Episcopalian priest & author of River of the Sun: Stories of the Storied Gila, & one of New Mexico's most respected books, The Sky Determines. More information on him can be found in the NM Index.
CAMENSON, BLYTHE - Albuquerque author of Careers for History Buffs & Others Who Learn from the Past, Careers in Education, Great Jobs for Art Majors, Great Jobs for Liberal Arts Majors, Opportunities In High Tech Careers, Opportunities In Overseas Careers, Real People Working In Building & Construction, Real People Working In Education, Real People Working In Engineering & Your Novel Proposal: from Creation to Contract
CAMERON, JULIA - part-time Taos author of The Artist’s Way: a Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity, The Artist's Way at Work: Riding the Dragon, God is No Laughing Matter: Observations & Objections on the Spiritual Path, Prayers From a Nonbeliever, Right to Write: an Invitation & Initiation Into the Writing Life, The Vein of Gold: a Journey to Your Creative Heart & Walking in This World: the Practical Art of Creativity. For more information, please see the NM Index.
CAMERON, SHEILA MACNIVEN - editor of New Mexico Magazine’s the Best From New Mexico Kitchens & New Mexico Magazine’s More of the Best From New Mexico Kitchens
CAMPA, ARTHUR LEÓN - NM folklorist, UNM professor & author of Hispanic Culture in the Southwest & Treasure of the Sangre de Cristos: Tales and Traditions of the Spanish Southwest. For more information, see the NM Index.
CAMPANOZZI, LOU- retired Rochester, NY Police Captain, then director of Special Investigations (Organized Crime, Intelligence) for the State of NM, then the Chief of Police at Sandia Pueblo, & author of Killing Cards, a mystery set in Rochester, NY, starring Lieutenant Mike (Ace) Amato, homicide detective for the Rochester Police Department, & it's sequels, Ground Lions & Justice*. He died unexpectedly in October of 2002 just after finishing Justice*
CAMPBELL, GLEN - former Albuquerque country-western musician & author of his autobiography, Rhinestone Cowboy
CAMPBELL, HARLEN -
CAMPBELL, HERB - former Albuquerque resident & historical novelist of Bobcat the Comanche*
CAMPBELL, JOHN MARTIN "JACK" - chair of UNM’s Anthropology Department, director of Maxwell Museum, Smithsonian research associate, polar explorer, author & photographer of Few and Far Between, Moments in the North American Desert & Prairie Schoolhouse. For more information, see the NM Index.
CAMPBELL, RICHARD C. - long-time minister in northern NM, now retired El Paso author of Two Eagles in the Sun: a Guide to U.S. Hispanic Culture & monthly columnist on becoming bicultural for El Paso Scene. For more information, please see the NM Index.
CAMPBELL, SUZAN - former Curator of Contemporary Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Museum of New Mexico & co-author of Spirit and Vision: Images of Ranchos de Taos Church & Taos Artists and Their Patrons, 1898-1950
CAMPBELL, TYRONE - former Albuquerquean, expert on historical Navajo weaving & author of Historic Navajo Weaving & Navajo Pictorial Weaving
CANDELA, GREGORY LOUIS - UNM-Valencia professor of English, performance artist, folk musician & author of Surfing New Mexico*, a collection of poetry. For more information, please see the NM Index.
CANDELARIA, CORDELIA - native New Mexican poet & author who is included in Infinite Divisions: an Anthology of Chicana Literature & Las Mujeres Hablan. For additional information, see the NM Index.
CANDELARIA, MICHAEL - Roswell-born scholar, philosophy & religious studies professor, currently teaching in UNM's Honors Program, & at TVI. He is included in Nuevomexicano Cultural Legacy: Forms, Agencies & Discourse
CANDELARIA, NASH -
CAPERTON, THOMAS J. -
director of the Monuments Bureau of the Museum of NM, co-author of Fort
Selden, Links to the Past: New Mexico’s State Monuments & Rogue:
Being an Account of the Life and High Times of Stephen W. Dorsey; &
contributor to Contributions to Gran Quivira Archeology: Gran
Quivira National Monument, New Mexico & Prehistory & History in the Southwest
CAPLIN, HARVEY -
renowned NM photographer & co-author with George Fitzpatrick of Albuquerque:
100 Years in Pictures, & photographer of Bell Ranch Wagon Work
by MATTIE
ELLIS & Mark Wood & Enchanted
Land, New Mexico, with text by RUTH ARMSTRONG.
For further information, please see the NM Index.
CAPUTI, JANE - UNM's American Studies teacher & author of Gossips, Gorgons & Crones: the Fates of the Earth & The Age of Sex Crime*
CARAVELLA, LORENZO - Magdalena spiritual advisor & author of Mouth of God, Your Cosmic Contact: a Transcendental Journey to the Ultimate Non-Relationship*
CARDONA-HINE, ALVARO - Costa Rican native, now Truchas poet, composer, painter, co-author of Miss O’Keeffe, author of A History of Light, A Memoir & translator of Spring Has Come: Spanish Lyrical Poetry From the Songbooks of the Renaissance; some of his other work can also be found in In Company: an Anthology of New Mexico Poets After 1960 p. 144+, From the Faraway Nearby: Georgia O’Keeffe as Icon, New Mexico Poetry Renaissance, Practice of Peace, Written With a Spoon: a Poet’s Cookbook & XY Files: Poems on the Male Experience. He is married to BARBARA MCCAULEY.
CARLSEN, IOANNA - Tesuque
cane & rush chair maker & poet, some of whose work can be found
in Saludos!: Poemas de Nuevo Mexico
CARNAHAN, MELODY SUMNER - Santa Fe short story author of One Inch Equals Twenty-Five Miles* & Thirteen*
CARNETT, DANIEL RICHARD - Albuquerque historian & author of Contending
for the Faith: Southern Baptists in New Mexico, 1938-1995
CARPIO, MYLA VICENTI - Jicarilla Apache historian, assistant professor at Arizona State, who is included in New Mexican Lives: Profiles & Historical Stories
CARR, A.A. (AARON ALBERT) - Albuquerque Navajo-Laguna poet, filmmaker, novelist of a chilling contemporary Pueblo & Navajo science fiction/horror novel, Eye Killers, set in NM; & short story author. For additional information, see also Remembered Earth: an Anthology of Contemporary Native American Literature
CARR, JOE P. & KAREN WITYNSKI - former Taos, now Austin & Yucatan designers, antiques dealers, restoration consultants, gallery owners & award-winning co-authors of Adobe Details, Casa Adobe, Mexican Country Style & The New Hacienda
CARR, LENA - Navajo independent producer of video & films, actress & poetry contributor to Ceremony of Brotherhood
CARR, PAT - former Cloudcroft author of Sonahchi: a Collection of Myth-Tales, winner of the Iowa Short Fiction Award, who is included in Walking the Twilight: Women Writers of the Southwest
CARRIER,
JIM - author of Hush, Little Baby, about Darci Kayleen Pierce, an
Albuquerque woman who strangled a pregnant woman & stole her unborn
baby
CARRILLO, ALBINO - El Paso-born, NM-raised poet who received his B.A.
in English from UNM & his M.F.A. in poetry from Arizona State University
& author of the poetry book, In the City of Smoking Mirrors. He teaches at the University of Dayton
CARRILLO, CHARLIE (CHARLES M.) - Santa Fe santero & author of Hispanic New Mexican Pottery:
Evidence of Craft Specialization 1790-1890, & Saints of the Pueblos
(which won USA Book News Best Books 2004 award for an art book & the
History Society of NM Ralph Emerson Twitchell Award
for 2004); co-author with JOSÉ ANTONIO ESQUIBEL, of A Tapestry of
Kinship: the Web of Influence Among Escultores & Carpinteros in the Parish of Santa Fe, 1790-1860; & who is included
in Our Saints Among Us, 400 Years of New Mexico Devotional Art, Saints
& Saint Makers of New Mexico by E. Boyd, & Secrets of a City: Papers on Albuquerque Area Archaeology in
Honor of Richard A. Bice. For more information, see the NM Index.
CARROLL, KEVIN -
CARROLL, THOMAS - Santa Fe political consultant, speech writer, newspaper reporter, & author of a fantasy novel, involving a Navajo seer & a young man who is saved by the old man, from trouble with kids at school, in The Colony
CARSON,
ANN - coauthor of Huning's Highland Addition Neighborhood Walking
Tour & Armchair Guide
CARSON, KIT - one of NM’s most famous soldiers & author of his memoirs: Kit Carson’s Autobiography. For more information, see the NM Index.
CARSON, WILLIAM C. - Santa Fe author who first came to NM as a boy in the 1930s with his family, tracing the journey of his great-great-grandfather, who traveled over the Santa Fe Trail in 1852 to become the 2nd governor of the territory of NM, William Carr Lane. He wrote the young person’s novel-based-on-history, Peter Becomes a Trail Man: The Story of a Boy's Journey on the Santa Fe Trail. For further information, please see the NM Index.
CARTER, JACK L. - professor emeritus of biology at the Colorado College, now Silver City author of Trees and Shrubs of New Mexico
CARTER, PAULA - Albuquerque novelist of a wacky Southern mystery series, starring Hillary Scarborough, interior designer, gourmet cook, gardening expert & her domestically challenged assistant Jane Ferguson, in Leading an Elegant Death, Deathday Party & Red Wine Goes With Murder, set in the South of France (in chronological order)
CARUSO, JAMES CAMPBELL - Santa Fe award-winning executive chef at El Farol Restaurant, a chef & instructor at the Santa Fe
School of Cooking, & the author of El Farol:
Traditional and Contemporary Spanish Cuisine & articles on cooking
& restaurant culture
CASEY, CLYDE - Roswell Western artist, sculptor, publisher of Western Artbeat & author of New Mexico Cooking: Southwestern Flavors of the Past and Present & Sassy Southwest Cooking: Vibrant New Mexico Foods*
CASH, MARIE ROMERO - Santa Fe santera, artist, historian, winner of the Lifetime Achievement in the Humanities award, presented by the New Mexico Endowment for the Humanities; & author of Built of Earth and Song: Churches of Northern New Mexico, Living Shrines: Home Altars of New Mexico & Santos: Enduring Images of Northern New Mexican Village Churches. For more information, see the NM Index
CASILLAS, DEBORAH - Santa Fe owner of the Rincon del Oso Restaurant & poet who is included in Written With a Spoon: a Poet’s Cookbook
CASSEL, VIRGINIA C. - Albuquerque educational administrator in the U.S. Office of Education, & author of Juniata Valley, a historical novel, set during the French & Indian War
CASSELL, CAROL -
CASSIDY, INA SIZER - former Santa Fe editor of the "Art & Artists" column for the New Mexico Magazine, author, poet & sculptor, who is included in Signature of the Sun; Southwest Verse, 1900-1950. For more information, see the NM Index.
CASTEEL,
BETTE DICKSON - author of
CASTI, J.L. (JOHN) - complexity scientist at the Santa Fe Institute, author of a speculative novel on artificial intelligence: The Cambridge Quintet, & a compelling novel in which great scientists suddenly come to life as unpredictable characters ambling down Princeton streets as they debate cosmic theories, in The One True Platonic Heaven: a Scientific Fiction on the Limits of Knowledge; & books on science: Searching for Certainty: What Scientists Can Know About the Future & Complexification: Explaining an Illogical World Through the Science of Surprise
CASTILLO, ANA - former Albuquerque, now Chicago essayist of Massacre of the Dreamers, poet, editor, short story author of Loverboys, Chicana feminist, NEA Fellow, winner of the American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation, & author of the Tomé, magical realism novel, So Far From God; the Chicana novels, Mixquiahuala Letters, Peel My Love Like an Onion & Sapogonia. For more information, see Cuentos Chicanos (1984 ed.), Daughters of the Fifth Sun, Floating Borderlands, Floricanto Sí & Infinite Divisions: an Anthology of Chicana Literature. For further information, see the NM Index
CASTILLO, NAHUM BOONE - Santa Rita-born, raised in Bayard, & retired from the Veterans Administration in Albuquerque, as Assistant Director; poet & author of Before and After Time*, a creation study guide.
CASTLE, LINDA (pseudonym
of Linda L. Crockett) - Farmington romance author of many paperback novels,
including Territorial Bride about a NM cowgirl & her love affair
CASTLEBERRY, JUDY - Farmington author of Caregiver Zone*
CATA, REGINA ALBARADO DE - Hispanic woman who
married a 3-time San Juan Pueblo governor, she was a storyteller, doll maker,
potter & author of Fables of Indian Dances & Fables of Tewa
Indian Dances; & the children’s stories The Foolish Ant: (And
Others) & Juan, the Champ illustrated by HELEN HARDIN.
She also told the story which became THELMA
CLARKE’s Runaway Boy: Raton
Jemez
CATES,
TORY - pseudonym of SARAH BIRD,
former Albuquerque, now Austin romance novelist of Cloud Waltzer*,
set in Albuquerque, Handful of Sky* & A Passionate Illusion*,
set in Santa Fe
CATHER,
STEVEN M. - co-author of Basins
of the Rio Grande Rift: Structure, Stratigraphy,
& Tectonic Setting & Eocene
Tectonics & Depositional Setting of West-Central New Mexico & Eastern
Arizona
CATHER, WILLA - Santa Fe Pulitzer Prize-winning author of many historical novels,
including My Antonia & O, Pioneers & one of NM's most
popular fictional biographies, Death Comes for the Archbishop, about
Archbishop Lamy; while her Professor’s House deals with Richard
Wetherill. She is also included in North of the Rio Grande & Sisters
of the Earth, p. 158+. For more information, see the NM Index
CAVE, DOROTHY - ENMU-Roswell history professor & award-winning author of a history of NM Guardsmen captured at Bataan, Beyond Courage: One Regiment Against Japan, 1941-1945; historical novelist of the NM WWII title, Four Trails to Valor, an intriguing novel of a man’s spiritual awakening in the Hispanic northern mountains of New Mexico: Mountains of the Blue Stone & a contemporary western, Song on a Blue Guitar. For more information, see Victory In World War II: the New Mexico Story & the NM Index
CHACÓN, EUSEBIO - 19th & 20th century NM novelist, essayist, journalist, orator, lawyer, & interpreter who is included in Latino Reader p. 65 & p. 114+. For more information, see the NM Index.
CHACÓN, FELIPE MAXIMILIANO - Santa Fe & Albuquerque journalist, poet, editor & publisher of La Bandera Americana newspaper. He is included in Noche Buena: Hispanic American Christmas Stories, p. 70+ & Tradiciones Nuevomexicanas: Hispano Arts & Culture of New Mexico p. 309+. For further information, see the NM Index.
CHACÓN, HERMINIA - Albuquerque poet & short story author, daughter of FELIPE MAXIMILIANO CHACÓN, who is included in Herencia: the Anthology of Hispanic Literature of the United States, p. 183+ & Noche Buena: Hispanic American Christmas Stories p. 74+
CHACÓN, RAFAEL - NM author who witnessed the execution of the leaders of the Rebellion of 1837, the entry of General Kearny & his forces, later a trader, participant in the Battle of Valverde, who, in his seventies, wrote his memoirs, which became: Legacy of Honor: the Life of Rafael Chacon, a Nineteenth-Century New Mexican, edited by JACQUELINE MEKETA. For more information, please see the NM Index.
CHADWICK, DAVID - Santa Fe author of Crooked Cucumber: the Life and Zen Teaching of Shunryo Suzuki*. For more information, please see the NM Index.
CHALMERS, RONALD - former Marine Corps Lieutenant Colonel, now Santa Fe poet of Questions from the Shadows* & who is included in XY Files: Poems on the Male Experience
CHAMBERLAIN, KATHLEEN P. - assistant professor of US history at Eastern Michigan University, who earned her Ph.D. from UNM, & author of Under Sacred Ground: a History of Navajo Oil, 1922-1982 & who is included in New Mexican Lives: Profiles & Historical Stories
CHAMBERS, MARJORIE BELL - Los Alamos political activist, lobbyist in the state legislature, president & dean of colleges, advisor to US presidents; winner of the 2003 Lifetime Achievement Award from the NM Commission on the Status of Women; recipient of the NM Endowment for the Humanities’ 2003 Lifetime Achievements in the Humanities Award & author who is included in The American West in 2000: Essays in Honor of Gerald D. Nash. For more information, please see the NM Index.
CHAPMAN, CHERYL E. - Las Cruces co-author with Barbara J. Soden, under the name, STEFANIE COURT, of an exciting mystery & romance, set in NM: The Deadly Papers
CHAPMAN, KENNETH M. - artist, archaeologist, executive secretary of the Museum of New Mexico & author of Pottery of Santo Domingo Pueblo & Pottery of San Ildefonso Pueblo
CHAPMAN, RON - an
CHAPMAN, SUSAN - photographer, artist, poet & author who is included in The Spirit That Wants Me
CHARLES, BULA - Alamogordo historian who helped get White Sands designated as a National Historic Monument & author of Tales of the Tularosa* & More Tales of the Tularosa*
CHARNAS, SUZY MCKEE - Albuquerque winner of 1994 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature & both the Hugo & Nebula Awards; author of vampire, science fiction, & adult & young adult fantasy novels, including Dorothea Dreams, Motherlines & Vampire Tapestry (set partially in Albuquerque & at the Santa Fe Opera). She is included in Very Large Array: New Mexico Science Fiction and Fantasy & has written a memoir, My Father's Ghost: the Return of My Old Man & Other Second Chances. For more information, see the New Mexican Children’s Authors list & the NM Index. She also writes under the name, REBECCA BRAND
CHATO, BERNADETTE - Navajo poet, some of whose work can be found in Remembered Earth: an Anthology of Contemporary Native American Literature
CHAVARRIA-CHAIREZ, BECKY - former San Antonio & Dallas televisiion broadcaster, public relations consultant & freelance journalist, now Albuquerque children's author whose bilingual stories include Magda's Tortillas/Las Tortillas de Magda & Magda's Piñata Magic/Magda y la Piñata Mágica. For more information, please see the NM Index.
CHÁVEZ, FRAY ANGÉLICO - Wagon Mound-born, Santa Fe Franciscan missionary, painter, translator, historical novelist, historian, poet, & author of Cantares: Canticles & Poems of Youth, 1925-1932, La Conquistadora: the Autobiography of an Ancient Statue, Missions of New Mexico, 1776, My Penitente Land, Origins of New Mexico Families, & The Short Stories of Fray Angelico Chavez. For additional information, see the NM Index, the New Mexican Children's Authors bibliography, From the Beginning: a Historical Survey Commemorating the Solemn Rededication of San Felipe de Neri Church, Literary New Mexico, New Mexico, Past and Present; a Historical Reader, Signature of the Sun; Southwest Verse, 1900-1950, Turquoise Land & Vivan Las Fiestas!
CHAVEZ, CARMEN R. - Albuquerque author, NEA award winner & railroad historian
CHAVEZ, DELFINA FAVER REDE - Las Cruces retired school teacher & author who is included in Las Mujeres Hablan
CHAVEZ, DENISE - Las Cruces’ native, former Albuquerque novelist, journalist, actress, playwright, poet, 1995 winner of Governor’s Awards for Excellence & winner of a 1995 Before Columbus/American Book Award for her novel, Face of an Angel. She has also written Last of the Menu Girls & the acclaimed novel, Loving Pedro Infante. She is also the compiler of Shattering the Myth: Plays by Hispanic Women. For more information, see also: Chicana Creativity and Criticism, Chicana Ways: Conversations with Ten Chicana Writers, Cuentos Chicanos (1980 & 1984 ed.), Daughters of the Fifth Sun, Descansos: an Interrupted Journey, Floating Borderlands, Infinite Divisions: an Anthology of Chicana Literature, Las Christmas, Favorite Latino Authors Share Their Holiday Memories, Las Mujeres Hablan, Latina Self-Portraits: Interviews with Contemporary Women Writers, New Mexico Plays, North of the Rio Grande, Short Fiction by Hispanic Writers of the United States & Walking the Twilight II. For further information, see the NM Index.
CHAVEZ, EDUARDO - Albuquerque poet, historian & author, some of whose work can be found in Tierra: Contemporary Short Fiction of New Mexico & Voces: an Anthology
CHAVEZ, JAIME - Atrisco/Pajarito-born, now Albuquerque community organizer & poet, some of whose work can be found in Ceremony of Brotherhood, Saludos!: Poemas de Nuevo Mexico & Voces: an Anthology of Nuevo Mexicano Writers
CHAVEZ, JENNIE V. - essayist & poet included in La Fragua Sin Fuego
CHÁVEZ, LINDA - Pres. Reagan's director of public liaison at the White House, the 1st Latina Civil Rights Commission member & NM author of Out of the Barrio: Toward a New Politics of Hispanic Assimilation & An Unlikely Conservative: the Transformation of an Ex- Liberal, or, How I Became the Most Hated Hispanic In America. For further information, see the NM Index
CHAVEZ, LISA D. - Los
Angeles-born, Fairbanks-raised, UNM English Department's Creative Writing
Program professor & poet of In an Angry Season. She’s included in Floricanto Si! a Collection
of
CHAVEZ, MARGO - Las Cruces author who is included in Las Mujeres Hablan
CHÁVEZ, MARTIN - former Albuquerque mayor & author of Getting Serious about New Mexico’s Future
CHÁVEZ, RENA L. - Belen arts & crafts entrepreneur & contributor to Heroes of the Rio Abajo: Stories of the Brave Men and Women in Valencia County History
CHAVEZ, RONALD P. - Puerto de Luna author, some of whose work can be found in Voces: an Anthology of Nuevo Mexicano Writers
CHAVEZ, STEVEN - Albuquerque author of Metro Court Guide: the People’s Handbook to Court Procedure
tesamaechavez - Albuquerque-born, Aztec-raised author who is included in Las Mujeres Hablan
CHAVEZ, THOMAS E. - Albuquerque director of the National Hispanic Cultural Center of NM, former Santa Fe Director of the Palace of the Governor's Museum, historian & author of Illustrated History of New Mexico, a biography of Manuel Alvarez, Quest for Quivira & Spain & the Independence of the United States & Wake For A Fat Vicar, with his uncle, FRAY ANGELICO CHAVEZ. He is also included in The Best of From the Plaza: Interviews & Opinions from the Plaza of Santa Fe, Fray Angelico Chavez: Poet, Priest, & Artist & Vivan Las Fiestas!; & edited Jewish Pioneers of New Mexico. For more information, see the NM Index
CHAVEZ, TIBO - NM lieutenant governor, state senator, folklorist, author of New Mexican Folklore of the Rio Abajo & co-author of El Rio Abajo; he is also included in Bicentennial ‘76 - Albuquerque Remembers. More information can be found in the NM Index.
CHEGIN, RITA K. - Las Cruces retired professor at NMSU, author of short stories, plays, & collector of Southwestern women's oral histories in Survivors: Women of the Southwest
CHENEY, ETHEL B. - Albuquerque poet of a collection called New Language: a Book of Poems, & who is also included in Signature of the Sun; Southwest Verse, 1900-1950
CHENHALL, ROBERT G. - Albuquerque former director of the Natural History Museum, & author of a book on coin investments: Wealth Building in the 90's
CHEW, BYRON - Tucumcari poet included in Signature of the Sun; Southwest Verse, 1900-1950
CHICAGO, JUDY - world-renowned feminist artist & Belen author
of Beyond the Flower, The Birth Project, The Dinner Party,
Through the Flower & co-author of Women & Art: Contested
Territory. She is also included in The Practice of Peace. She is
profiled in Judy Chicago: an American Vision by Edward Lucie-Smith.
She’s also the author & illustrator of Kitty City: a Feline Book of Hours, which is based on the Book of Hours, a 15th century devotional
book containing text & prayers for each hour of the day. Cat lovers will
recognize the routine, from "
CHILDS, MARK C. - Albuquerque urbanist,
a faculty member & the director of the Design & Planning Assistance
Center in the School of Architecture & Planning at UNM; the author of Parking
Spaces: a Design, Implementation, & Use Manual for Architects, Planners,
& Engineers* & Squares: A Public Place Design Guide For Urbanists*; & co-author with ANTHONY ANELLA, of Never Say Goodbye: the
Albuquerque Rephotograhic Survey Project
CHILTON, KATHERINE -
Albuquerque calligrapher, artist & co-author of New Mexico: a New Guide
to the Colorful State & Touring New Mexico. She also made a photographic wall calendar,
“2005 Pickup Pinups: Neighborhood Trucks & Their Stories”, primarily from
Albuquerque’s North Valley
CHILTON, LANCE - Albuquerque pediatrician & co-author of New Mexico: a New Guide to the Colorful State & Touring New Mexico; & contributor to New Mexico in Maps
CHINO, CONRAD - Acoma Pueblo newscaster & essayist who is included in Enduring Cowboys: Life in the New Mexico Saddle & Mark Nohl’s Photographs of New Mexico. For further information, see the NM Index
CHINO, VELMA - Acoma Pueblo mother of CONROY CHINO, potter of traditional pottery & storyteller figures, & author of Curious Boys* & Boy and the Turtle*
CHOCOLATE MAVEN see HILL, JUDYTH
CHRISTENSEN,
CHRISTIANSEN, MARY BURRITT - NM philanthropist, poet of Arias* & patron who made possible through the Mary Burritt Christiansen Poetry Series, Miracles of Sainted Earth by Victoria Tester & In Company: an Anthology of New Mexico Poets After 1960 p. xix+. For further information, please see the NM Index.
CHRISTIE, PAMELA - has lived & worked in NM for over 30 years, in
both a remote mountain village & in Eldorado, & is the historical
novelist of The King's Lizard: a Tale of Murder & Deception in Old Santa
Fe, during the time of Gov. de Anza, in the 1780s
CHRISTIE, RICHARD L. - State of NM chief of the Alcoholism Bureau & contributor to New Mexico in Maps
CHRISTISON, KATHLEEN - Santa Fe former CIA analyst, freelance writer & author of Perceptions of Palestine: Their Influence on U.S. Middle East Policy
CHURCH, FERMOR S. - husband of PEGGY, faculty member & Acting Head Master of the Los Alamos Ranch School & co-author of When Los Alamos Was a Ranch School
CHURCH, PEGGY POND - poet, memoirist, historian, a northern NM Living Treasure & author of her autobiography about her life before the federal government appropriated her father's Los Alamos Ranch School: House at Otowi Bridge & When Los Alamos Was a Ranch School. Her poetry can be found in New and Selected Poems, A Rustle of Angels, Saludos!: Poemas de Nuevo Mexico, Signature of the Sun; Southwest Verse, 1900-1950, This Dancing Ground of Sky, & Turquoise Land. For further information, see the NM Index
CIANCIO,
CICETTI,
MELISSA - architect, photographer
& author of Marking the Land 1*, which documents in duotone
photographs her trip from
CIOTOLA,
NICHOLAS P. - UNM-educated author of
Italians in Albuquerque
CISNEROS, SANDRA - former visiting creative writing instructor at UNM's English Department, NEA grant winner & acclaimed novelist of Caramelo, House on Mango Street (set in Chicago), poet of My Wicked, Wicked Ways & short story author of Woman Hollering Creek. For more information, see Daughters of the Fifth Sun, Floricanto Sí, Infinite Divisions: an Anthology of Chicana Literature, Las Christmas, North of the Rio Grande, Southwest Stories: Tales From the Desert & Walking the Twilight: Women Writers of the Southwest. For further information, see the NM Index.
CLAFFEY, THOMAS H. - Santa Fe-raised West Point graduate, a former Air Force pilot, author of Ladies and Gentlemen of the Jury*, a nonfiction account of a California criminal trial from start to finish; & novelist of And the Angels Cried, a romance between a nun & a physician, set in the mythical Cielo, NM
CLAIR, DONNA - Taos painter & illustrator of Carlos, Light the Farolito
CLANCY,
FLORA SIMMONS - professor of art
history at UNM, contributor of scholarly articles to periodicals & author
of Maya: Treasures of an Ancient Civilization, Pyramids* & Sculpture
in the Ancient Maya Plaza: The Early Classic Period. She’s the editor, with Peter D. Harrison of Vision
and Revision in Maya Studies*
CLAPSADDLE-COUNTS, RUTH -
NM author of
CLARIDGE, DRUSILLA - Albuquerque author who
worked in the Gila as a fire lookout observer for 4 summers, historic
preservation researcher for Silver City, former Santa Fean, black powder
rifle enthusiast, massage therapist, landscape painter in pastels & author of the Apache/mining novel, Peacock Ore, with
Victorio, Lozen & Sergeant James Cooney, U.S. Army Quartermaster Corps., set in the Mogollons, in
Mineral Canyon, near Alma, NM
CLARK, ANN NOLAN - Las Vegas-born, Santa Fe teacher, one of NM's first children's authors, Newbery Medal & Caldecott Honor winner, & author of These Were the Valiant: a Collection of New Mexico Profiles. Her autobiography is Journey to the People. More information on her can be found in the NM Index & the New Mexican Children’s Authors list.
CLARK, DOUGLAS - Albuquerque editor of the UNM Publications Office & award-winning fantasy author of humorous medieval novels: Rehearsal for a Renaissance & Whirlwind Alchemy
CLARK, IRA G. - Professor Emeritus of the History Department at New Mexico State University, author of Water in New Mexico: a History of Its Management & Use & he is included in Essays in Twentieth-Century New Mexico History
CLARK, VIRGINIA L. - Taos retired nurse, poet & author who is included in Chicken Soup for the Nurse’s Soul p. 131+
CLARK, WALTER VAN TILBURG - Taos poet, short story author & novelist, probably best known for the 1940 novel, The Ox-Bow Incident
CLARK, WILLARD -
CLARKE, RICHARD - NM novelist of The Arizona Panhandle, Comanche Trail, Guns of Peralta, The Oldest Treachery, & The Undertaker: the Legend of El Cajonero (also set in Peralta). He also writes under the name PAINE, LAURAN.
CLARKE, THELMA - NM author of the Pueblo
Indian story, Runaway Boy: Raton Jemez, illustrated by HELEN HARDIN & Fables of Tewa Indian
Dances as recorded by REGINA ALBARADO DE CATA
of San Juan Pueblo & illustrated by PABLITA
VELARDE, among others
CLARY, DAVID - Roswell adjunct professor at ENMU’s Roswell campus, historian for the U.S. Forest Service, & the National Park Service, & author of Rocket Man: Robert H. Goddard & the Birth of the Space Age. For more information, please see the NM Index.
CLAUSS, TIM - Taos massage & wellness center partner & contributor to Chicken Soup for the Soul at Work
CLAWSON, RICHARD - Santa Fe holiday designer & co-author of Christmas Celebration: Santa Fe Traditions, Foods and Crafts
CLAYTON, MARK - Albuquerque
author of a NM science fiction novel, Tin Gods*
CLEAVELAND, AGNES MORLEY - Datil rancher, historian of the Maxwell Land Grant in Satan’s Paradise & memoirist of No Life for a Lady. For more information, see the NM Index.
CLEAVELAND, ALICE ANN - Albuquerque co-author of New Mexico, Land of Many Cultures
CLEAVELAND, NORMAN - the son of AGNES MORLEY CLEAVELAND, he was educated in Silver City & in California. After receiving his degree at Stanford University, his professional career as a mining engineer was spent principally abroad, including 22 years in Southeast Asia. Cleaveland was an Olympic gold medal winner for rugby. He’s the author of Can New Mexico's Historians Improve Their Discipline? ; Also, The Great Santa Fe Coverup, Colfax County's Chronic Murder Mystery, & Dredge Mining for Gold, Malaysian Tin, Diamonds, 1921-1966; Exposing the 1883 Murder of William Ray; editor of The Healer: the Story of Francis Schlatter & co-author of The Morleys-Young Upstarts on the Southwest Frontier, with GEORGE FITZPATRICK. For more information, please see the NM Index.
CLEGG, DENISE - civil rights activist, teacher at both UNM &
Albuquerque’s TVI, & poet who is included in In
Company: an Anthology of New Mexico Poets After 1960 p. 508+
CLEVELAND, FRED - Navajo artist, educated at the Albuquerque Indian School, & illustrator of MAURINE GRAMMER’s mystery, The Navajo Brothers and the Stolen Herd, set on the Alamo Band Indian Reservation
CLINE, DON - NM author of several Billy the Kid biographies, including Alias Billy the Kid & Antrim and Billy
CLINE, LYNN - Santa Fe author of Romantic Days and Nights in Santa Fe. For more information, please see the NM Index.
CLINE,
SANDRA - Albuquerque novelist of Pug
Sheridan, an autobiographical novel about a young woman's arduous quest for
identity & redemption; a spiritual odyssey set in the rural Alabama of the
past century. The novel explores the
nature of love, friendship, loss, & racism & reveals how childhood
choices affect our adult lives in unexpected ways. She previously worked in broadcasting as the
producer & host of a successful radio talk show.
CLOW, BARBARA HAND - Santa Fe author of New Age books; for more information, see Artists of the Spirit by Mary Carroll Nelson
CLUTTER, LARRY - electrician, owner of a bed & breakfast in Jemez Springs, winner of the Meritorious Service Medal for bravery during the sinking of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Blackthorn & author of Blackthorn, about his experiences
COALSON, ANNA MARIE - former Carlsbad native, now a critical-care nurse in Lubbock & mystery author of Shadow of Death
COATS, YVONNE - NM science fiction short story author & photographer who is included in Treachery & Treason*, a finalist for the James White Award in 2000 & is the Vice President, of the Southwest Writers Workshop. For more information, please see the NM Index.
COBB, AMANDA J. - UNM American Studies professor & winner of an American Book Award for Listening to Our Grandmothers' Stories: the Bloomfield Academy for Chickasaw Females*
COBOS, RUBEN - Coahuila, México-born, raised in San Antonio, TX & Albuquerque, UNM graduate, taught in public schools in rural NM, received his doctorate from NM Highlands & taught at UNM for more than 30 years, with teaching positions at Stanford University & University of Nevada. He is the author of A Dictionary of New Mexico & Southern Colorado Spanish, Refranes: Southwestern Spanish Proverbs, Southwestern Spanish Proverbs: Refranes Españoles del Sudoeste, translated Cuentos From My Childhood: Legends & Folktales of Northern New Mexico by PAULETTE ATENCIO, & contributed to Music of the Spanish Folk Plays in New Mexico by Richard B. Stark. He lives in Albuquerque.
COBURN, WALT - Montana Territory-born, briefly a New Mexican, later an Arizona short story author & western novelist of Coffin Ranch: a Western Trio & Secret of Crutcher’s Cabin
COE, LOUISE - first NM woman Senator & author of her memoirs, Lady and the Law Books. For further information, see the NM Index.
COE, WILBUR - Ruidoso Valley rancher, pioneer & author of Ranch on the Ruidoso; the Story of a Pioneer Family in New Mexico. For further information, see the NM Index.
COERR, ELEANOR - Albuquerque author of many children's books, including Big Balloon Race, Josefina Story Quilt, & Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes
COFER, CHARLES - Albuquerque psychology professor & author. For more information, please see the NM Index.
COFFEEN, KELLEY CLEARY - Las Cruces home economist, star of her popular
weekly TV show, “Kelley’s Kitchen” & author of Simply 7: Quick Southwest
Recipes Just 7 Ingredients Away.
COFFEY, DAVID -
COGGAN, CATHERINE - Santa Fe author of New Mexico Family Adventure Guide*
COHEA-O’HEARN, CAROL - professional writer, photojournalist, editor of the New Mexico Stockman, some of whose work can also be found in Women Who Made the West
COHEN, ELIZABETH - Port Crane, NY reporter, who grew up in Albuquerque & the author of her life caring for both her infant daughter & her father, who is afflicted with Alzheimer's: The House on Beartown Road: a Memoir of Learning & Forgetting. For more information, please see the NM Index. See also VAN PELT, ELIZABETH COHEN
COHEN, SAUL - Santa Fe attorney & author of Harvey Fergusson: a Checklist & a contributor to New Mexico in Maps
COHOE, GREY - Shiprock-born Navajo poet, instructor at IAIA, & graphic artist, some of whose work can be found in Remembered Earth: an Anthology of Contemporary Native American Literature & Voice of the Turtle. For further information, see the NM Index.
COIMBRA, CHARMAINE - author who lives in an old apple orchard north of
Santa Fe; her novel, The Gathering Basket* is about how Annamarie Iver discovers how her
mother dies, with the help of a Taos shaman
COKE, A.A. HEDGE - Huron author who lives in Santa Fe, & is included in Reinventing the Enemy’s Language. For further information, please see HEDGE COKE, A.A.
COKE, VAN DEREN - UNM professor of art, director of the UNM Art Museum, photographer & Santa Fe author of, among others, Andrew Dasburg, Nordfeldt, the Painter, The Painter and the Photograph; from Delacroix to Warhol, Photography in New Mexico & Taos and Santa Fe; the Artist's Environment, 1882-1942. For more information, see the NM Index.
COLAHAN, CLARK - UNM-educated, associate professor at Whitman College, author of Miguel de Quintana & Visions of Sor Maria de Agreda: Writing Knowledge & Power; & contributor to Fray Angelico Chavez: Poet, Priest, & Artist & Pasó por Aquí
COLBERT, JAMES - assistant professor at UNM, screenwriter, true crime author of God Bless the Child & novelist of All I Have Is Blue, No Special Hurry, Profit and Sheen & Skinny Man
COLEMAN, ANITA SCOTT -
NM-raised African American teacher, short story author, poet & essayist,
some of whose work can be found in
COLEMAN, JANE CANDIA - Rodeo, NM rancher, short story author of Country Music: Western Stories, Discovering Eve, Moving On, & Stories From Mesa Country; essayist, romance novelist of Desperate Acts, western novelist of Doc Holliday's Gone: a Western Duo,Doc Holliday’s Woman, I, Pearl Hart, Lost River, & O’Keefe Empire: a Western Story; author of her memoirs, Mountain Time & Shadows In My Hands & 1991 National Cowboy Hall of Fame's Western Heritage Award winner for poetry. Some of her poetry can be found in Saludos!: Poemas de Nuevo Mexico. For further information, please see the NM Index.
COLLADO, A.B. - Cuba-born, Albuquerque publisher and editor of Albuquerque’s only Spanish-language newspaper, El Hispano. For more information, see the NM Index.
COLLIER, JOHN - 1930s Commissioner of Indian Affairs & author of Indians of the Americas, On the Gleaming Way; Navajos, Eastern Pueblos, Zunis, Hopis, Apaches, and Their Land; and Their Meanings to the World, & Patterns and Ceremonials of the Indians of the Southwest. For further information, see the NM Index.
COLLIER, JOHN, JR. - New
Mexico F.S.A. photographer, collected in Far From Main Street: Three
Photographers In Depression-Era New Mexico, author of A Vision Shared: a
Classic Portrait of
COLLIER, MALCOLM - woman anthropologist of the Navajo & co-author of Visual Anthropology: Photography as a Research Method. For more information, see the NM Index.
COLLIGAN, JOHN B. - Las Cruces retired businessman & author of The Juan Páez Hurtado Expedition of 1695: Fraud in Recruiting Colonists for New Mexico
COLLIGNON, RICK - Questa roofer & novelist of the excellent series: The Journal of Antonio Montoya, Perdido & Santo in the Image of Cristóbal Garcia. For more information, see the NM Index.
COLLINS, LYNN - Albuquerque therapist & co-author of Parents in a Pressure Cooker
COLTRIN,
MIKE - author of Sandia Mountain
Hiking Guide, physical chemist, member of the technical staff at Sandia
National Laboratories, who’s enjoyed hiking in the Sandia Mountains for more
than 20 years
CONCHA, JOSEPH L. - Taos poet & author of Chokecherry Hunter and Other Poems; some of his other work can be found in Remembered Earth: an Anthology of Contemporary Native American Literature. For further information, see the NM Index.
CONDIE, CAROL J. - Albuquerque archaeologist, president/owner of 2 companies which conduct archaeological, & historical investigations, & author of Anthropology of the Desert West: Essays In Honor of Jesse D. Jennings & The Cemeteries of Albuquerque, Bernalillo County, & Parts of Sandoval & Valencia Counties & contributor to Albuquerque: a Guide to Its Geology and Culture, 2003 ed. & Secrets of a City: Papers on Albuquerque Area Archaeology in Honor of Richard A. Bice. For further information, please see the NM Index.
CONDIT,
DAVID L. - Taos therapist for
troubled children & their families, & novelist of The Hummingbird
Brigade, about 4 people who break their chains of abuse & persevere to
healing, set in NM
CONFORTI, ANTHONY - Albuquerque TV news & documentary producer, explorer of the ancient sites of MesoAmerica, videographer of the dances, traditions & culture of the native peoples; & author of Acalan, an epic historical novel, about early explorers of the Maya, set partially in Columbus, NM
CONLEY, MATTHEW - member of the Albuquerque team who competed in the National Poetry Slam Championships. For further information, see the NM Index.
CONLEY, SUNNY - Las Cruces author of Café Hopping in the Southwest
CONNELL, EVAN S. - Santa Fe author of Native American history, poetry & historical novels, including Aztec Treasure House: New & Collected Essays, Son of the Morning Star & Mr. Bridge. For further information, see the NM Index.
CONNELL, MARY - part-time
CONNER, ROBERT EDWARD -
CONNORS, ANDREW L. - Senior Curator at the National Hispanic Cultural
Center, in Albuquerque, co-author of Treasures on New Mexico Trails:
Discover New Deal Art and Architecture, & contributor to Luis Tapia:
Ay, que Vida!
CONOVER, KRIS - Albuquerque co-author of Marriage Made Simple: 50 Hints for Building Long-Lasting Love. For more information, please see the NM Index.
CONSTANDSE, WILLIAM - Santa Fe retired IBM executive, essayist, travel journalist & author of Tribute to the Women of Santa Fe
CONWELL, DOUGLAS - Santa Fe massage therapist, counselor, educator, co-founder of Earth Walks, an environmental education program, & author who is included in The Spirit That Wants Me
COOK, ANGELIQUE S. - Albuquerque acupuncture physician, shaman & author of Shamanism and the Esoteric Tradition*
COOK, MARY JEAN STRAW - Santa Fe author of Loretto: the Sisters and Their Santa Fe Chapel & editor of Immortal Summer: a Victorian Woman's Travels in the Southwest: the 1897 Letters & Photographs of Amelia Hollenback. Some of her memories of growing up in NM can be found in A New Mexico Scrapbook. For more information, please see the NM Index. See also STRAW, MARY JEAN.
COOK, MARY LOU -
COOKE, REGINA TATUM - Taos painter & author. Further information on her can be found in Legendary Artists of Taos & Stand Against the Wind
COOLIDGE, DANE - NM co-author of Navajo Indians & the western novel, Comanche Chaser.
COOLIDGE, MARY ROBERTS - NM co-author of Navajo Indians & author of Rainmakers: Indians of Arizona and New Mexico
COOPER,
ELIZABETH ANN - reporter & later,
city editor, for the Gallup Independent, a harpist, she also paints
& is the author of No Little Thing*, a NM novel
COOPER, MICHAEL J. - Albuquerque's Los Angeles Laker & author of No Slack, his autobiographical book about basketball technique. For further information, see the NM Index.
COOPER,
ROBERT. L. - city manager &
compiler of A Greater Albuquerque; a Story of Four Years of Community
Accomplishment, 1926, 1927, 1928, 1929
COOPER, URSULA - Albuquerque Public Schools retired teacher & author of the appealing children’s nature book, Mini Walks on the Mesa
COOPER, WALTER - Santa Fe artist, & former copywriter & art director with J. Walter Thompson & author of Shards: Restoring the Shattered Spirit
CORBIN, ALICE - Santa Fe poet, some of whose work can be found in New Mexico In Verse, Signature of the Sun; Southwest Verse, 1900-1950 & Women Poets of the West: an Anthology, 1850-1950. Further information can be found in the NM Index. Further information on her can be found under HENDERSON, ALICE CORBIN
CORBIN-HSI, BETH - Albuquerque nurse & medical researcher, wife of STEVEN D. HSI & co-author with him & JIM BELSHAW of Closing the Chart: a Dying Physician Examines Family, Faith & Medicine
CORDELL, LINDA S. - anthropologist, former chairperson of UNM’s Department of Anthropology, & author of several excellent books: Anasazi World, Ancient Pueblo Peoples, Before Pecos: Settlement Aggregation at Rowe, NM, Dynamics of Southwest Prehistory, Prehistory of the Southwest, & Tijeras Canyon: Analyses of the Past & contributor to Hidden Scholars, In Search of Chaco: New Approaches to an Archaeological Enigma, Themes In Southwest Prehistory & Understanding Complexity in the Prehistoric Southwest
CORDOVA, AMY -
CORDOVA, GILBERTO BENITO - Española high school teacher & author of 3 ½ Cultures of Espanola & Abiquiu and Don Cacahuate: a Folkhistory of a New Mexican Village
CORDOVA, JOSEPHINE M. - Arroyo Seco retired teacher, memoirist of No Lloro Pero Me Acuerdo & author who is included in Las Mujeres Hablan
CORDOVA, KATHRYN M. -
Taos part-time instructor at the Taos & Los Alamos branches of UNM, teacher
of English, government & law; journalist, freelance magazine writer, editor
of Ayer y Hoy en Taos, Taos County
Historical Society’s Semiannual Journal of Taos History, president of NM Press
Women, author of ¡Concha! Concha Ortiz y Pino:
Matriarch of a 300-year-old New Mexico Legacy & author who is included
in Las Mujeres Hablan.
CORLE, EDWIN
- California author who wrote several
excellent Native American & Western novels, set in NM, including Billy
the Kid, Burro Alley*, set in Santa Fe, & People on the Earth. For more information, please see the NM
Index.
CORMIER, STEVE - Albuquerque adjunct instructor of history at T-VI & who is included in Essays in Twentieth-Century New Mexico History & Multicultural Southwest: a Reader
CORNETT,
ROBERT - former Air Force pilot
& postal worker, & author of more than 40 paperback novels, including
the ones he co-authored with KEVIN RANDLE: Aldebaran
Campaign* & Remember the
CORWELL,
DAVID - Paradise Hills author whose
short story, "Legacy of the Quedana," is
included the book, Cloaked in Shadow: Dark Tales of Elves
COSANDAEY, MIKELLE "KELLY" - Albuquerque-raised, now Santa Fe area deputy director of the NM Film Office, award-winning documentary film director & producer, & author who is included in 100 Years of Filmmaking in New Mexico,1898-1998
COSGROVE, HARRIET SILLIMAN & CORNELIUS BURTON - Silver City archaeologists & authors of the Mimbres' Swarts Ruins
COSTELLO, KEN - Santa Fe author of The Dreamcatcher*
COULTER, CATHERINE - Jemez Springs doctor
& co-author with her sister, brother & mother of Winging It: a
Beginner's Guide to Birds of the Southwest with illustrations by JENNIFER OWINGS DEWEY. Her co-authors are: CYNTHIA COULTER, a physician who lives in Omaha,
Nebraska, JAMES COULTER, a self-employed businessman who lives in Placitas;
& VIVIAN COULTER, the mother of the other three authors is a retired
Albuquerque science teacher & author of science textbooks.
COULTER, LANE - Santa Fe expert on New Mexican Tinwork, 1840-1940 & editor of Navajo Saddle Blankets: Textiles to Ride in the American West
COURT, STEFANIE - pseudonyms of Cheryl E. Chapman & Barbara J. Soden, Las Cruces residents & authors of an exciting mystery & romance, set in NM: The Deadly Papers
COWING, SHEILA -
CRAIG, EMMA - Roswell
author of many novels, including Enchanted Christmas, Gentle Magic
& Gambler’s Magic: the Enchanted Land series: historical romantic
fantasies set in Rio Hondo, NM Territory’s Pecos Valley. She also writes under
the names RACHEL WILSON & ALICE DUNCAN
CRAIGHEAD, MEINRAD - Albuquerque painter, former Buddhist nun, author of Crow Mother & the Dog God: a Retrospective, of more than 40 years of her art, & The Mother's Songs: Images of God the Mother, & who is also included in Spirit That Wants Me. For more information, please see the NM Index.
CRAMER, T. DUDLEY - Carlsbad-raised historian & author of Pecos Ranchers in the Lincoln County War*
CRANE, FRANCES KIRKWOOD - Taos & Santa Fe author of the Taos mysteries: The
Amethyst Spectacles*, Horror on the Ruby X*, The Polka Dot Murder*,
The Turquoise Shop (Mona Brandon & her hacienda are loosely
based on Mabel Dodge Luhan & her famous home) & A Very Quiet Murder*.
The Turquoise Shop
was followed by 25 more books featuring Pat & Jean Abbott
CRANE, LEO - former NM author of Desert Drums: the Pueblo Indians of New Mexico & Indians of the Enchanted Desert
CRANK, DAN L. - Navajo author, who is included in Neon Pow-Wow & Song of the Turtle: American Indian Literature
CRANS, ELINOR G. - NM poet who is included in New Mexico In Verse
CRAVEN, DAVID - professor of art history at UNM, a leading authority on the art & culture of the Nicaraguan Revolution, he is also the author of a landmark study of Diego Rivera, acclaimed studies of Cuban art since 1959 & author of Art & Revolution in Latin America, 1910-1990. For more information, please see the NM Index.
CRAVENS, GWYNETH - former Albuquerque resident, author of many magazine articles, staff member of The New Yorker magazine & novelist of Heart’s Desire (which is set in NM), & Speed of Light
CRAVENS, R.H. (RICHARD H.) - Albuquerque key writer for Aperture magazine, & author of Edward Weston, Health, Healing & Beyond: Yoga & the Living Tradition of Krishnamacharya & Photography Past Forward: Aperture At 50. For more information, please see the NM Index.
CRAWFORD, CAPTAIN JACK - the "Poet Scout" - author of Broncho vs. Bicycle: a Tale of the Old West Set to Verse. For more information, see the NM Index.
CRAWFORD, JOHN F. - retired UNM professor
& co-editor of
CRAWFORD, STANLEY - Dixon
project director of the Friends of the Farmers' Markets in Santa Fe,
served as chairman of Northern NM Legal Services & the Taos Art
Association, essayist, winner of the 1988 Western States Book Award, author of Garlic
Testament: Seasons on a Small New Mexico Farm, Mayordomo:
Chronicle of an Acequia in Northern New Mexico & The River in Winter.
He is also the novelist of the comic novels, Petroleum Man & Some
Instructions. For more information, see the NM Index.
CREELEY, ROBERT - Placitas teacher in the 1960s - 1970s, &
world-renowned author of many books including The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley, 1945-1975, The Collected Prose of Robert Creeley, Hello; a Journal, February 29-May 3, 1976,
If I Were Writing This, Selected Poems & Windows,
& he’s included in In Company: an
Anthology of New Mexico Poets After 1960 p. 21+
CRESPIN, LESLIE - Taos painter, assemblage artist & author who is included in Spirit That Wants Me
CREWS, JUDSON - Taos & Albuquerque's world-renowned poet &
author of the Noose: a Retrospective: Four Decades; & who is
included in In Company: an Anthology of New
Mexico Poets After 1960 p. 137+, New Mexico Poetry Renaissance, Turquoise
Land & Voices From the Rio Grande
CREWS, MATTIE BARKER PHILLIPS - Sapello Canyon author of her autobiography, which also includes a history of Las Vegas: Back to My Mountains. She is the sister of ELLIOTT BARKER & S. OMAR BARKER.
CREWS, TUDA LIBBY - NM ranch-raised, now Wyoming author of Wild, Wild West Cowboy Cookies
CRICHTON, KYLE -
Albuquerque advertising executive, biographer of Elfego Baca, in Law and
Order, Ltd. & novelist of The Proud People, set in
Albuquerque. He’s also the father of ROBERT
CRICHTON, ROBERT - Albuquerque-born author of the nationally-known
novels, The Camerons, The Great Impostor
& The Secret of Santa Vittoria
CROCCHIOLA, S.F.L. see
CROCKETT, WENDY - Albuquerque author of Sweetwater Wisdom: a Native American Spiritual Way*
CROSNO, MAUDE DAVIS - Albuquerque Public Schools teacher and poet who is included in Earth Chant, Sandscript p. 98, & Turquoise Land
CROTTY, MARILYN - award-winning Albuquerque author of inspirational short stories & articles for children & adults
CROWDER, JACK - Bernalillo children's author of Stephannie and the Coyote & Tonibah and the Rainbow
CROWN, PATRICIA L. - UNM professor of anthropology & author of Ceramics
& Ideology: Salado Polychrome Pottery;
co-editor of Ceramic Production in the American Southwest & Chaco
& Hohokam: Prehistoric Regional Systems in the American Southwest. She’s also included in Themes In Southwest Prehistory & Understanding
Complexity in the Prehistoric Southwest
CRUTCHER, RUSTY - owner of Emerald Green Sound Productions, a New Age record label, musician & author who is included in The Spirit That Wants Me
CUDAHY, SHEILA - Santa Fe editor, poet & short story author. For more information, please see the NM Index.
CUEVAS, LOU - Albuquerque author of a collection of his grandfather's stories: Apache Legends: Songs of the Wind Dancer & In the Valley of the Ancients: a Book of Native American Legends
CULLEN, BRAD - UNM assistant professor of geography & contributor to New Mexico in Maps
CUMMINGS, BILLY CHARLES PATRICK - historian & author of Frontier Parish: Recovered Catholic History of Lincoln County, 1860-1884
CURREY, RICHARD - Albuquerque novelist & author of Crossing Over: a Vietnam Journal, Fatal Light & Lost Highway. For more information, see the NM Index.
CURRY, ANNE - Los Lunas novelist of Lessons
Through Time*, she was formerly a nurse in the Red Rocks area of
CURRY, GEORGE - NM Territorial governor & author of George Curry, 1861-1947: an Autobiography. For more information, see the NM Index.
CURTIN, L.S.M. - NM botanist & author of By the Prophet of the Earth: Ethnobotany of the Pima & Healing Herbs of the Upper Rio Grande. For more information, see the NM Index.
CURTIS, SUSAN - owner, founder of the Santa Fe School of Cooking & author of the cookbook: Santa Fe School of Cooking Cookbook: Spirited Southwestern Recipes
CURTISS, URSULA REILLY - Albuquerque mystery novelist of Child's Play*
(originally published as Out of the Dark*), Danger: Hospital Zone*,
Don't Open the Door*, The Forbidden Garden* (also published &
filmed as Whatever Happened to Aunt Alice?*), Hours To Kill*, The
House on Plymouth Street & Other Stories (set in Albuquerque), In Cold Pursuit* (set in Santa
Fe), The Menace Within (set in Albuquerque), Out of the Dark*,
& The Poisoned Orchard (set in Albuquerque). She is
the sister of MARY MCMULLEN & the daughter of HELEN REILLY
CUSHING, FRANK HAMILTON - historian, ethnographer of the Zunis & author of Cushing at Zuni, My Adventures in Zuni, Mythic World of the Zuni & Zuni: Selected Writings. For more information on him, please check the New Mexico Index
CUSHMAN, DOUG - former NM resident, author & illustrator of children's books, including the picture book Aunt Eater series & the Mouse and Mole series
CUTTER, CHARLES R. - former Albuquerquean, history professor at Purdue University, son of DONALD CUTTER & author of Protector de Indios in Colonial New Mexico & Legal Culture of Northern New Spain
CUTTER, DONALD C. - Albuquerque historian of early Spanish colonial life, including Quest for Empire, UNM professor emeritus of history, editor of New Mexico Historical Review & editor & translator of many important documents, including the Journey of Coronado, 1540-1542
DAITZ, BEN - physician, professor in the department of
family, community, & emergency medicine at UNM, a documentary filmmaker,
fiddle player, a regular contributor to the science section of The New York Times & author of Delivery, a serious novel suffused with humor
& set in Albuquerque
DALLAS, DAVID - UNM graduate student in the
DALRYMPLE, LARRY - former history school teacher, now Santa Fe educational consultant, author of Indian Basketmakers of California & the Great Basin & Indian Basketmakers of the Southwest: the Living Art & Fine Tradition
DALTON, DORI - Santa Fe author of the New Age novel, The Shamrock & the Feather. For more information, please see the NM Index.
DALY,
KELSY & MARY CATHERINE MATHEWS -
authors of Santa Fe with Kids from A
to Z: an Illustrated Guide*. Mathews is a
DALY, LISABETH -
DANA, AMBER - NM author
of the
DANEMAN, HANK - a member of the Los
Alamos Citizen’s Advisory Board who’s included in The Best of From the
Plaza: Interviews & Opinions from the Plaza of Santa Fe
DANIELS, KATHLEEN (pseudonym
of George & Kathleen Schwartz) -
D’ANTONIO, BOB - Louisville, CO graduate of the College of Santa
Fe, rock climber, mountain biker, hiker & author of Santa Fe-Taos Hiking
Guide & Mountain Biking Northern New Mexico.
DASENBROCK, REED W. - Las Cruces NEA award winner & author of The Art of Being Ruled*, Interviews With Writers of the Post-Colonial World*, & Literary Theory After Davidson*
DASILVA, MARIA - Santa Fe puppeteer, storyteller, co-founder of the Little Earth School & co-author of Little Earth School: Education, Discovery, Celebration
DAUDET, LULA COLLINS - early Albuquerque memoirist of Pinto Beans and a Silver Spoon, with her sister RUTH COLLINS ROBERTS. She is also a poet who is included in Earth Chant & Sandscript p. 79
DAUGHERTY, LEROY A. - NMSU associate professor of the Department of Crop & Soil Sciences & contributor to New Mexico in Maps
DAUNER,
ROBERT K. - Albuquerque photo
archivist of Early Albuquerque: a Photographic History, l870-l9l8 & Old
Town, Albuquerque, New Mexico: a Guide to its History & Architecture
DAUNER,
ROBERT K. - Albuquerque photo
archivist of Old Town, Albuquerque, New Mexico: a Guide to its History &
Architecture
DAVID, GARY - Santa Fe poet & author who is included in The Spirit That Wants Me
DAVIES, JACQUELINE - Boston-area author of Where the Ground Meets the Sky, a young adult novel about a young girl uprooted from her East Coast life, when her dad comes to NM to work on the Manhattan Project
DAVIS, ANDREW - Santa Fe artist of "Bathysphere" which was exhibited in Santa Fe, Chicago & NYC, & author of the long poem of the same name, based on the exhibition. For more information, please see the NM Index.
DAVIS, CAROLYN O’BAGY - author of Mogollon Mountain Man: Nat Straw,
Grizzly Hunter & Trapper* & Treasured Earth: Hattie Cosgrove's
Mimbres Archaeology in the American Southwest. For more information,
please see the NM Index.
DAVIS, CYNTHIA - award-winning
DAVIS, DUKE -
DAVIS, GAIL - Rio Rancho author of the 1st reference to more than a thousand vegetarian, cholesterol-free foods: So, Now What Do I Eat? the Complete Guide to Vegetarian Convenience Foods. For more information, see the NM Index.
DAVIS, JON - Glorieta creative writing teacher at the Institute of American Indian Arts & award-winning author of the books of poetry, Dangerous Amusements & Scrimmage of Appetite*
DAVIS,
MARY P. - Albuquerque member of the Historic Landmarks
Survey, & author of Huning Highland Neighborhood Walking Tour &
Armchair Guide, co-author of Huning's
Highland Addition Neighborhood Walking Tour & Armchair Guide, Shining
River, Precious Land: an Oral History of Albuquerque's North Valley; &
editor of Historic Albuquerque Today: an Overview Survey of Historic
Buildings & Districts
DAVIS, MICHAEL - retired chief of gastrointestinal radiology at the UNM School of Medicine & co- author of Fundamentals of Fluoroscopy*
DAVIS, NORMA - Los Alamos former teacher & poet who is included in Sandscript p. 52 & Turquoise Land
DAVIS, PAUL - retired UNM professor
& co-editor of
DAVIS,
PHYLLIS S. - NM co-author of Indian
Mining of Lead for Use in Rio Grande Glaze Paint: Report of the AS-5 Bethsheba Project near Cerrillos, New Mexico &
contributor to The First 100 Years: Papers in Honor of the State & Local
Archaeological Societies of New Mexico
DAVIS, SALLY M. - UNM Medical Center Pediatrics Education Specialist & contributor to New Mexico in Maps
DAVIS, TOM - Albuquerque cowboy & author of Be Tough or Be Gone: the Adventures of a Modern Day Cowboy
DAVIS, WAYNE - Carlsbad winner of the Best First Western Award from Western Writers of America, for John Stone and the Choctaw Kid
DAVIS, WILLIAM W.H. - Territorial US attorney, Territorial interim governor & author of El Gringo, or New Mexico and Her People. For more information, please see the NM Index.
DAWKINS, CECIL - Santa Fe playwright, Guggenheim Fellow, NEA grant winner, author of several novels, including the mysteries: Clay Dancers (set on an archaeological dig outside Santa Fe), Rare Earth (involving an enraged bear, a dying man & a Native American girl, set in the Sangre de Cristos), Santa Fe Rembrandt (set in a Santa Fe art museum) & Turtle Truths (movie-making in Santa Fe & Jamaica), Charleyhorse, a novel about family relations; & the short story collection, The Quiet Enemy. She also edited A Woman of the Century, Frances Minerva Nunnery (1898-1997): Her Story in Her Own Memorable Voice. For further information, please see the NM Index.
DAWLEY,
WALTER - illustrator of Old
Town, Albuquerque
DAYHOFF, SIGNE A. - Placitas psychologist, president of Effectiveness-Plus, which produces psychology self-help books & author of Diagonally-Parked in a Parallel Universe: Working Through Social Anxiety
DE ARAGÓN, RAY JOHN - Las Vegas & Santa Fe artist, santero, playwright & author of Hermanos de la Luz: Brothers of the Light, Legend of La Llorona, & Padre Martinez and Bishop Lamy. For more information, see the NM Index.
DE BACA, ELVERA ADOLFITA - Los Lunas political activist, writer for the Albuquerque Hispano Chamber of Commerce Newsletter & author who is included in Las Mujeres Hablan
DE VORE, JEFFREY - studied at the School of Visual Arts in New York & now lives in
Santa Fe. He is the illustrator of White
Crow, & the son of MAGGIE DE VORE.
DE VORE, MARGARET A. (MAGGIE) - has been writing for over 30 years. Maggie returned to Cochiti Lake
from 22 years in England & 7 years in Japan. She loves the spiritual quiet
& serenity of Cochiti Lake. Living
among the mesas & mountains near the Rio Grande inspired her to write the
story, White Crow, for children of all ages. It is illustrated by her son, JEFFREY DE VORE.
DEAL, LANHAM - Santa Fe symphony orchestra manager & author who is included in The Spirit That Wants Me
DEAN, CAROLEE - Albuquerque author of a young adult novel, Comfort, about 14-year-old Kenny who fantasizes about his escape from his hometown of Comfort, Texas, following his alcoholic father's release from prison
DEAN, ERIC - Albuquerque author of Fire Ready*, regarding his experiences fighting fires across the west with the Forest Service & the National Park Service
DEAN, MESA - pseudonym of Melody Groves, NM native, Albuquerque public school teacher, screen playwright, country-western band member, bull rider & author of the exciting Western, set in NM Territory: The Quest.
DEATS, SUZANNE - Santa Fe arts writer, editor & co-author with
Michael Duty, of Western Traditions: Contemporary Artists of the American
West*, a lavishly illustrated volume which tells the stories of about 40
painters & sculptors (including several who live in NM) who follow in the
tradition of Western artists Frederic Remington & Charles Russell. She’s also the co-author of Santa Fe
Design & Interior Furnishing Southwest
DEBRUIN, ELLEN - UNM geographer & contributor to New Mexico in Maps
DEBUYS, WILLIAM -
DECHERT, PETER - Santa Fe photographer & poet who is included in Sandscript p. 1 & Turquoise Land
DEER HEART, ROSALIE - NM co-author of Harvesting Your Journals: Writing Tools to Enhance Your Growth and Creativity*. For more information, please see the NM Index.
DEESE-ROBERTS, SUSAN - Albuquerque head of Zimmerman Public Services at UNM, Associate Professor & author of Library Instruction: A Peer Tutoring Model*
DEFENBAUGH, HELENA CHENEY -
DEFOURI, JAMES H. - 19th century personal friend & secretary to ARCHBISHOP LAMY, later a pastor at Our Lady of Guadalupe in Santa Fe & author of Historical Sketch of the Catholic Church of New Mexico* & The Martyrs of New Mexico: a Brief Account of the Lives & Deaths of the Earliest Missionaries in the Territory. Please see the NM Index for further information.
DEGEER, STANLEY - Albuquerque historian of Pikes Peak is Unser Mountain: a History of the Pikes Peak Auto Hill Climb
DEGENHARDT, WILLIAM G. - UNM professor emeritus of biology & co-author of Amphibians and Reptiles of New Mexico
DEHUFF, ELIZABETH - Santa Fe lecturer for Fred Harvey’s Indian Detours, author of Say the Bells of Old Missions: Legends of Old New Mexico Churches, & poet who is included in New Mexico In Verse. For further information, please see the NM Index & the NM Children’s Authors List.
DEISLER, JULIA M.- Santa Fe author, editor & poet who is included in Written With a Spoon: a Poet’s Cookbook & XY Files: Poems on the Male Experience
DEJONG, CONSTANCE - Albuquerque sculptor, UNM professor of art & author of Constance DeJong: Metal, a retrospective showing of her work. For more information, please see the NM Index.
DELAMARTER, RUBEE - Santa Fe musician, teacher of music & poet who is included in Sandscript p. 117 & Turquoise Land
DELATTRE, PIERRE - Dixon painter, poet, religious humorist & author of Tales of the Dalai Lama, a circus novel not set in New Mexico, Walking on Air & his memoirs, Episodes*. For more information, please see the NM Index.
DELGADO, EDMUNDO RICARDO - native New Mexican, former state legislaator, state senator, Santa Fe short story author & editor of Witch Stories of New Mexico
DELGÁDO, LUCY - teacher, inventor, potter & author. More information on her can be found in Stand Against the Wind, p. 18+
DEMARES, RYAN - Santa Fe author, The Dolphin Institute's research director, the first person to hold a doctorate in interspecies communication from an accredited institution (The Union Institute) with special emphasis on consciousness & human-dolphin interactions, & author of Dolphins, Myths & Transformations, which explores the relationship that exists between humans and dolphins
DEMARK, JUDITH BOYCE - former Albuquerquean, assistant professor of history at Northern Michigan University & editor of Essays in Twentieth-Century New Mexico History
DENKER, NANCY - children’s author & illustrator of Up, Up,
& Away: a Balloon Trip Over
D’EMILIO, SANDRA - Santa Fe curator for the NM Museum of Fine Arts, author of Spirit and Vision: Images of Ranchos de Taos Church & Visions and Visionaries: the Art and Artists of the Santa Fe Railway & contributor to Independent Spirits: Women Painters of the American West & Treasures on New Mexico Trails: Discover New Deal Art and Architecture
DENISON, KAREN - Santa Fe assistant manager of High Desert Angler & co-author of Fly Patterns of Northern New Mexico
DENKER, NANCY -
author & illustrator of the children’s book, Up, Up, & Away: a
Balloon Trip Over
DENNIS, BETH - Albuquerque illustrator in the UNM Department of Biology & illustrator of Trees and Shrubs of New Mexico
DENNIS, LISL & LANDT
-
DENNISON, GENE - Rock Springs Navajo co-author of Navajo Place Names
DENSMORE, FRANCES - early musical anthropologist of the Southwest & author of How Indians Use Wild Plants for Food, Medicine and Crafts, Music of Acoma, Isleta, Cochiti, and Zuni Pueblos, & Music of Santo Domingo Pueblo, New Mexico. For more information, see the NM Index.
DENT, HUNTLEY - Santa Fe author of The Feast of Santa Fe: Cooking of the American Southwest
DENTON, CRAIG - former NM resident & poet, some of whose work can be found in Saludos!: Poemas de Nuevo Mexico
DENTON,
SALLY - Santa Fe author of American
Massacre: the Tragedy at Mountain Meadows, September 1857, Faith &
Betrayal: a Pioneer Woman's Passage in the American West (the story of her
own pioneering great-great grandmother) & co-author of The Money &
The Power: the Making of Las Vegas & its Hold on America, 1947-2000.
DERRYBERRY, JERRAL - Santa Fe artist, co-founder of the organization, "Fish New Mexico", & who is included in Fly-Fishing in Northern New Mexico
DESMAISONS, KATHLEEN -
DESMOND, DELIA - former NM poet, now Massachusetts Theater Arts elementary teacher, who is included in XY Files: Poems on the Male Experience
DEVERAUX, JUDE - formerly Santa Fe's most famous romance novelist (now Connecticut’s) & author of, among others, The Invitation, Knight in Shining Armor, & Mountain Laurel. For more information, see the NM Index.
DEVINE, VALENTINA -
Berlin, Germany-born, now
DEVON, MARJORIE - director of UNM’s Tamarind Institute of Lithography & editor of Tamarind: Forty Years
DEWALT, G. WESTON - Santa Fe co-author of The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest. For more information, please see the NM Index.
DEWEY, DAVID LAWRENCE - Roswell author of the legal/political thriller, set partially in Albuquerque, Revelations, one of the 1st authors to use the Internet to develop his novel. For more information, see the NM Index.
DEWEY, JENNIFER (OWINGS)
- Western Writers of America Spur Award-wiinning Santa Fe illustrator &
author of many books on natural history, including, Creatures Underneath,
Finding Your Way: the Art of Natural
Navigation with photographs
by STEPHEN TRIMBLE & Winging It: a Beginner's Guide to Birds
of the Southwest by CATHERINE COULTER. For further information see the New
Mexican Children’s Authors list & the NM Index.
DEWINDT, LILA -
DEWITT, DAVE - Albuquerque publisher of the Fiery Foods & Whole Chile Pepper magazines, travel & cooking author of, among others, Barbecue Inferno: Cooking With Chile Peppers on the Grill, The Chile Pepper Encyclopedia, Discover New Mexico, Food of Santa Fe, Meltdown: the Official Fiery Foods Show Cookbook and Chilehead Resource Guide, The Pepper Pantry: Chipotle, The Pepper Pantry: Habanero, The Spicy Food Lover’s Bible*, Sweet Heat: Spicy Desserts (& More) for Chile Lovers & Whole Chile Pepper Book. He’s also the author of The Mute Strategy*, a science fiction novel, set in Capitan; & is married to NANCY GERLACH
DEWITT,
SUSAN - author of Historic Albuquerque Today: an
Overview Survey of Historic Buildings & Districts & co-author of The
Old House Workbook: Rehabilitation Guidelines for Albuquerque
DEXTER, KATHLEEN- Peñasco filmmaker & author of Fifth Life of the Catwoman: a Novel, a magical realism love story set in NM, which won the Writer's Digest National Self-Publishing Award for Fiction. For more information, see the NM Index.
DI SUVERO, VICTOR - Tesuque critic, poet, editor, & publisher of Pennywhistle Press, & founder of the Poetry Center of NM; some of whose work can be found in New Mexico Poetry Renaissance & Saludos!: Poemas de Nuevo Mexico. For more information, please see the NM Index.
DIAMOND, LYNELL - New Mexico native author & illustrator of Let’s Discover Bryce Canyon and Zion National Parks* & New Mexico for Kids*
DIAZ, ROSE - Albuquerque co-author of Hispanic Heroes: Portraits of New Mexicans Who Have Made a Difference & associate director of UNM's Center for Southwest Research
DIAZ, ROSEMARY - Santa Clara Pueblo-born Santa Fe poet of Spirit of the Horse* & who is included in Neon Pow-Wow. For further information, please see the NM Index.
DICAMILLO, ROGER -
DICK,
RUTH W. - editor
of Kenneth M. Adams, N.A., 1897-1966, about the renowned Taos painter
DICKEY, R.P. - poet, novelist, opera librettist & author who is included in The Spirit That Wants Me
DICKEY, ROLAND F. - UNM Press director & author of one of NM’s most beloved books: New Mexico Village Arts; he is also included in Bicentennial ‘76 - Albuquerque Remembers. For more information, see the NM Index.
DICKSON, TODD G. - Las Cruces journalist, editor & author who is included in The Spirit That Wants Me
DIKE,
MARGARET H. - co-author with CAROLYN N.
SEDBERRY of Bicentennial '76: Albuquerque Remembers
DILLEHAY, JAMES - NM author of Basic Guide To Selling Arts and Crafts
DILLEN, FREDERICK G. - Santa Fe first novelist of Hero*
DILLLINGHAM, RICK -
DIMARIA, SHARON MATTHEWS - Albuquerque former coordinator for disabbled students at UNM Valencia, author & poet who is included in Southwestern Women: New Voices
DINKEL, REYNALDA ORTIZ Y PINO - Santa Fe retired teacher & author who is included in Las Mujeres Hablan. For more information, please see ORTIZ Y PINO DE DINKLE, REYNALDA
DISPENZA, JOSEPH - Taos & Santa Fe former head of the film department of the College of Santa Fe, novelist of an Hispanic family saga, The House of Alarcón, author of The Serigraphs of Doug West & Live Better Longer: the Parcells Center Seven-Step Plan for Health and Longevity; co-author of Will Shuster: a Santa Fe Legend, & is included in 100 Years of Filmmaking in New Mexico 1898-1998
DISTASIO, RENA - Tijeras native New Mexican, free-lance writer & senior author of Albuquerque:
Blazing New Trails
DISTEFANO, ERIC - head chef the Geronimo Restaurant in Santa Fe
& co-author of Geronimo: Fine Dining in Santa Fe, about the history
& life of the restaurant & recipes, of course!
DIX, DREW - Silver City area author who was the first enlisted man in the US Army Special Forces to have been awarded the Medal of Honor, Vietnam veteran, & author of The Rescue of River City, about his experiences in Vietnam. He is also profiled in Medal of Honor: Portraits of Valor Beyond the Call of Duty. For further information, please see the NM Index.
DIXON, GEORGE, DR. - retired Albuquerque orthopedic surgeon & author of Exercise a la Carte
DIXON, MAURICE - Santa Fe expert on Spanish colonial tinwork: New Mexican Tinwork, 1840-1940
DIXON, MAYNARD - primarily California but
also NM muralist, watercolor, oil painter, drawing expert & author of Images
of the Native American, & Maynard
Dixon Sketch Book. For more
information, please see the NM Index.
DOBKINS, LUCY M. -
DODGE, MEREDITH D. - research associate professor of history at UNM, an editor of the Vargas Project, & co-editor of Blood on the Boulders: the Journals of Don Diego de Vargas, New Mexico, 1694-97, Two Hearts, One Soul: the Correspondence of the Condesa de Galve, 1688-96, Letters from the New World: Selected Correspondence of Don Diego de Vargas to his Family, 1675-1706, By Force of Arms: the Journals of Don Diego de Vargas, New Mexico, 1691-93, & To the Royal Crown Restored: the Journals of Don Diego de Vargas, New Mexico, 1692-94
DODS, WALTER - former
DODSON, DORIAN -
DOEREN, STEPHANIE - Albuquerque author who is included in Spirit That Wants Me
DOHERTY, BRENDAN - NM
author of City-Smart Guidebook:
DOHERTY, KATHERINE & CRAIG - former Zuni residents & authors of several children's books on Native Americans, including Apaches and Navajos, Chickasaw & Zunis
DOLDE,
LILLIAN -
DOMINGUEZ, FRAY FRANCISCO ATANASIO - 1st Hispanic explorer of Colorado & Utah, canonical inspector of NM & author of The Missions of New Mexico, 1776; a Description, With Other Contemporary Documents. For more information, please see the NM Index.
DOMINIAN, HELENA DEFENBAUGH
-
DOMRZALSKI, DENNIS -
DONAHUE, WILLIAM - Santa Fe NEA grant winner & author of The Dissolution of the Celestial Spheres* & translator of Johannes Kepler’s The New Astronomy*
DONALDSON, JAMES D. - Carlsbad poet who is included in Turquoise Land
DONALDSON, SAM - national TV newsman, investigative reporter, Mesilla Valley-born rancher, & author of his autobiography, Hold On, Mr. President. For more information, see the NM Index.
DONALDSON, STEPHEN R. - world-renowned Corrales' fantasy/quest novelist, author of 2 volumes of the "Mordant’s Need" novels, the "Thomas Covenant" dual trilogies, & the "Gap" series. He's also written several mysteries, The Man Who Fought Alone & The Man Who Killed His Brother. Under the name REED STEPHENS, he wrote the prequel, The Man Who Risked His Partner. He is also included in Very Large Array: New Mexico Science Fiction and Fantasy. For more information, please see the NM Index & the New Mexican Fiction list.
DONOVAN, MATT - NM poet. For more information, please see the NM Index.
DOOLEY, VIRGINIA - director of R.C. Gorman’s Navajo Gallery & compiler of R.C. Gorman’s Nudes and Foods
DOOLITTLE, ROSALIE - Albuquerque's first & probably most influential gardening expert & author of Southwest Gardening
DORAME, ANTHONY - Tesuque tribal judge, painter, environmental high school teacher, & young adult novelist of Peril At Thunder Ridge
DORATO, PETER - UNM electrical engineering professor, director of UNM's Center for Intelligent Systems Engineering (ISE) & co-author of Italian Culture, a View from America. He has taught an Italian Culture class with UNM's Division of Continuing Education since 1993. The book is based on his class notes and lectures
DORATO, SYLVIA - physicist with the Air Force Research Laboratory's Directed Energy Directorate, chief of Tactical Laser Systems Branch, and co-author with her father, of Italian Culture, a View from America
DOSS, JAMES
- Los Alamos' Meson Physics Facility
engineer & author of the excellent Colorado Ute mystery series (several set
partially in NM): The Shaman Sings, The Shaman Laughs, Shaman’s
Bones, The Shaman’s Game, Night Visitor, Grandmother
Spider, White Shell Woman, Dead Soul & The Witch's
Tongue (in chronological order)
DOSSEY, LARRY - Santa Fe physician, editor of a medical journal on alternative therapies in health & author of Beyond Illness: Discovering the Experience of Health, Healing Beyond the Body: Medicine & the Infinite Reach of the Mind, Healing Words: the Power of Prayer, Prayer is Good Medicine & Reinventing Medicine. For further information, please see the NM Index.
DONAGHE, RONALD - Las Cruces author of an engrossing & touching novel about the coming of age of 2 gay teens in small-town southern NM: Common Sons
DOTY, C. STEWART -
Albuquerque resident, professor emeritus of history at the University of Maine
& contributor to Photographing Navajos: John Collier, Jr. on the
Reservation, 1948-1953. For more information, please see the NM Index.
DOUGHERTY, FLO HOSA - Las Cruces award-winning
artist & illustrator of The Man Who Set the Town Dancing = El Hombre que Puso a Bailar
a Todo el Pueblo
DOUGHERTY, MARY - award-winning poet, attorney mediator, judge in
Corrales, & is included in In Company:
an Anthology of New Mexico Poets After 1960 p. 312+
DOUGLAS, CLAYTON R. - Bingham, NM author of Trevor McGee: One Bloody Alabaster Eye*
DOXON, LYNN ELLEN - Albuquerque Journal gardening columnist,
horticulturist & author of High Desert Yards and Gardens & Rainbows
from Heaven* which chronicles their trials & tribulations when she
& her husband began trying to adopt three children from the Ukraine. It’s an inspirational story of boundless
faith & love. For more information,
please see the NM Index.
DRABANSKI, EMILY - editor of New Mexico Magazine, editor of The Waning of the West by STAN STEINER & author of Artists at Home: Inspired Ideas from the Homes of New Mexico Artists. For more information, please see the NM Index.
DRAYER, RUTH - La Mesilla author of Numerology: the Power in Numbers. For further information, please see the NM Index.
DRESSMAN, JOHN - author of On the Cliffs of Acoma: a Pueblo Story With a Short History of Acoma, a bilingual children’s novel
DRUCKER, MALKA - Tesuque rabbi & author of many titles including Frida Kahlo, Rescuers: Portraits of Moral Courage in the Holocaust & White Fire: a Portrait of Women Spiritual Leaders in America. Please see the New Mexican Children’s Authors list for information on her children’s fiction & nonfiction titles; & the NM Index for further information.
DRUMMOND, J.K. - an
DUBOVIK, G.J. - Albuquerque author of I, Woman*, which combines prose & poetry
DUDLEY, JAMES - Albuquerque high school math teacher & co-author of New Mexico: a New Guide to the Colorful State & Touring New Mexico
DUDLEY, MARY - Albuquerque program manager of UNM’s Family Development Training Institute & author of Baby Love Pack*, an interactive book for parents & their newborns
DUFF, J. DIANNE - Albuquerque poet, short story author & co-editor of The Spirit That Wants Me
DUFF, KAT - Taos counselor & author of a personally experienced book on chronic fatigue syndrome: Alchemy of Illness
DUFFIELD, JAMES - NM geologist, travel agent & co-author of Kokopelli: Fluteplayer Images In Rock Art
DUFFNER, ROBERT W. - Albuquerque chief historian at the Research Laboratory at Kirtland Air Force Base & author of Airborne Laser, Bullets of Light. For further information, please see the NM Index.
DUNAWAY, DAVID KING - UNM professor, editor of Writing the Southwest & author of How Can I Keep From Singing: Pete Seeger & Huxley in Hollywood. Please see the NM Index for further information.
DUNCAN, ALICE - Roswell author of Wild Dream, a light & charming southeastern NM Territorial historical romance. She writes under her own name & also under the names RACHEL WILSON & EMMA CRAIG
DUNCAN, LOIS - world-famous Albuquerque author of many titles,
including the young adult suspense novels, set in Albuquerque: I Know What
You Did Last Summer, Killing Mr. Griffin (a mystery set at Albuquerque’s Del Norte High), Ransom
(a mystery), Season of the Two-Heart* (about Pueblo Indians), Summer
of Fear & Third Eye. She
has 3 other young adult novels set in NM: Stranger With My Face (horror
novel set partially in NM, involving Navajo astral projection), They Never
Came Home (set in
DUNDON, ELAINE - Santa Fe founder & chief strategist for The Innovation Management Consulting Group Inc., a Santa Fe creative thinking consulting firm, adjunct professor of innovation management at the University of Toronto & author of The Seeds of Innovation: Cultivating the Synergy That Fosters New Ideas*. For more information, please see the NM Index.
DUNLAY,
THOMAS W. -
DUNMIRE, WILLIAM W. - Placitas naturalist & biologist, professional nature photographer & co-author with GAIL D. TIERNEY of Wild Plants and Native Peoples of the Four Corners & Wild Plants of the Pueblo Province: Exploring Ancient and Enduring Uses. He also won the History Society of NM’s Gaspar Perez de Villagrá Award for 2004, for Gardens of New Spain: How Mediterranean Plants & Foods Changed America. For further information, please see the NM Index.
DUNN, DOROTHY - Santa Fe anthropologist, artist who established The Studio, the fine-arts program at the Santa Fe Indian School & author of American Indian Painting of the Southwest and Plains Areas. For more information, see the NM Index.
DUNN,
MARK - unique & witty Albuquerque novelist of Ella
Minnow Pea: a Progressively Lipogrammatic Epistolary
Fable, about a girl living on a fictional South Carolina island. She finds herself acting to save her people
from the encroaching totalitarianism of the island's Council, which has banned
the use of certain letters of the alphabet; Ibid: a Life: a Novel in
Footnotes, about Jonathan Bashette who has three
legs, but who escapes the circus to become a soldier in World War I. There, he
first glimpses his future calling: male underarm deodorants; & Welcome
to Higby, which follows
the hilarious goings-on in a small town in northern Mississippi over Labor Day
weekend. He lovingly traces the
eccentric & touching lives of his characters. He’s also the author of United
States Counties & Zounds!: a Browser's Dictionary of Interjections
DUNNAM,
LORA - co-author of Songs in the
Night: the Story of Marion K. Van Devanter, who
was Albuquerque’s Presbyterian Hospital’s Goodwill Ambassador
DUNNINGTON, JACQUELINE ORSINI - Santa Fe scholar & author of Guadalupe: Our Lady of New Mexico, & Viva Guadalupe!: the Virgin in New Mexican Popular Art. For more information, please see the New Mexico Index. She also writes under the name JACQUELINE ORSINI
DUNTON, NELLIE GERTRUDE HARTLEY - Taos wife of the painter, Herbert Dunton; artist in her own right; popularizer of Spanish Colonial embroideries & designs, & author. More information on her can be found in Notable Women of the Southwest
DURAN, EDUARDO - Santa Fe clinical psychologist, author on inter-generational trauma & novelist in the area of cross-cultural psychology & spirituality: Buddha in Redface: the Los Alamos Manhattan Project as Seen by the Buddha in Redface. Presently he is the director of Behavioral Health at the Santa Fe Indian Hospital. Please see the NM Index for further information.
DURANT, PENNY RAIFE - Albuquerque-born & raised teacher, co-founder & director of the Calico Butterfly Preschool, & author of Bubblemania, Make a Splash: Science Activities With Liquids, Prize-Winning Science Fair Projects; & a novel, When Heroes Die, which is set in Albuquerque & won the Lambda Literary Award for Best Juvenile/Young Adult Novel for 1992
DUTTON, BERTHA P. - Santa Fe's internationally known anthropologist & archaeologist, Curator of Ethnology at the Museum of NM, director of the Museum of Navajo Ceremonial Art & author of American Indians of the Southwest, Navaho Weaving Today & Sun Father’s Way. She was also a contributor to Navajo Religion & Culture: Selected Views: Papers in Honor of Leland C. Wyman & Prehistory & History in the Southwest. Please see the New Mexico Index for more information.
DVORAH, TANA BAT - author who is included in The Spirit That Wants Me
DYBWAD, G.L. - Albuquerque solid state physicist & co-author with his wife, JOY V.BLISS, of James A. Michener: the Beginning Teacher and His Textbooks
DYE, GLORIA - Continental Divide, NM poet, associate professor at UNM-Gallup & author who is included in Southwestern Women: New Voices
DYER, ROBERT - Albuquerque author of a number of westerns, including Blood Hunt*, Revenge Trail*, Showdown at Total Wreck*, Slade*, Sundown at Total Wreck*, & Total Wreck War*. He’s been a mechanical engineer for most of his life, is the author of short stories, nonfiction articles, dealing with the history of the Old West, horror novelist & poet. He also writes under the name, HUGH MORROW
DYLAN, BOB - Minnesota-born composer of more than 300 songs, singer, musician, recording artist, poet, performer & author of Bob Dylan: Chronicles, Lyrics, 1962-1985 & Songs of Bob Dylan: From 1966 through 1975. He lived briefly in Gallup, as a young man. For more information, please see the New Mexican Children's Authors.
DZICZEK, EDWARD - NM author who is included in The Spirit That Wants Me
With Thanks to my friends at the Albuquerque/Bernalillo County Library System
© Suzy Sultemeier, 1983-2005
