NEW MEXICAN AUTHORS: L - Q
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.
LA FARGE, JOHN PEN -
Santa Fe born & raised, the son of the famed anthropologist OLIVER LA FARGE, & the editor of Turn
Left at the Sleeping Dog: Scripting the Santa Fe Legend, 1920-1955, a
collection of interviews with influential old-timers, such as FRAY ANGÉLICO CHÁVEZ, Katherine
"Peach" Mayer, Anita González Thomas,
Josephine E. Baca, Chuck Barrows, Alice Henderson Rossin,
Paul Frank, Tom & Doris Dozier, RICHARD
BRADFORD, Jerry West, Margaret Larsson, Carol Smith, historian MYRA ELLEN JENKINS, & J. B. JACKSON. For more information, please see
the NM Index.
LA FARGE, OLIVER -
genteel, intellectual New Englander, Santa Fe winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Laughing
Boy, author of Native American & Southwestern histories & novels,
including Behind the Mountains, Enemy Gods, The Mother Ditch
(originally published as a children’s book) & Santa Fe: the
Autobiography of a Southwestern Town. He is also included in Murder on
the Menu & Southwest Writers Anthology. For more information, see the NM Index.
LA
MESA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ALBUQUERQUE NM WIZ KIDS OF OZ - child authors of a series "founded on and
continuing the famous Oz stories by L. Frank Baum": The Enchanted
Emeralds From Oz, John R. Neill Visits Oz Mico,
The Many Lands in Oz, Our Trip to Oz, A Valuable Gift From Oz, W.W. Denslow in Oz, The Liberty Bell in Oz & Our
Trip to Oz, filed under j Fiction Wiz Kids
LA ROQUE, CATHERINE A. -
NM Sioux poet, teacher & author who is included in The Spirit That Wants
Me
LABINSKY, DARIA - Rio
Rancho editor at Real Beer Magazine & co-author of Frank
Applegate of Santa Fe: Artist & Preservationist. For further
information, please see the New Mexico Index.
LACAPA, KATHLEEN -
Irish/English/Mohawk co-author with her husband, MICHAEL
LACAPA, of a children's picture book: Less Than Half, More Than
Whole
LACAPA,
MICHAEL - Apache/Hopi/Tewa artist,
teacher & author of Antelope Woman: an Apache Folktale, Flute
Player: an Apache Folktale, co-author with his wife, KATHLEEN LACAPA, of Less Than
Half, More Than Whole; & illustrator of Magic Hummingbird: a Hopi
Folktale & The Good Rainbow Road = Rawa 'Kashtyaa'tsi Hiyaani: a Native
American Tale in Keres & English, Followed by a
Translation into Spanish by SIMON J. ORTIZ
LACERVA, VICTOR - Santa
Fe director of the Family Health Bureau of the New Mexico Department of Health;
he holds a clinical faculty appointment with the Department of Pediatrics at
UNM’s Medical School & is the author of Pathways to Peace: 40 Steps to a
Less Violent America
LACHMAN, MARVIN - one of
the most respected critics in the world of mystery fiction, is a Santa Fe
writer who wrote the acclaimed The American Regional Mystery* & Reader's
Guide to the American Novel of Detection*, & co-author of The Ripper
of Storyville*
LACHNIT, JOHNNA -
Albuquerque writer, artist, & technical illustrator with RICHARD “THE BUGMAN” FAGERLUND,
of Ask the Bugman: Environmentally
Safe Ways to Control Household Pests. For more information, please see the
NM Index. See also JOHNNA STRANGE
LAD, VASANT - Albuquerque
physician & author of Complete Book of Ayurvedic Home Remedies, Science
of Self-Healing*, Secrets of the Pulse*, Textbook of Ayurveda* & the Yoga of Herbs*. For more
information, please see the NM Index.
LADD, EDMUND JAMES -
anthropologist at the NM Museum of Indian Arts & Culture & author of
"Ethno-Ornithology of the Zuni", included in Stars Above, Earth
Below: American Indians and Nature & contributor to Understanding
Complexity in the Prehistoric Southwest
LAFOLLETTE,
ROBERT HOATH - author of The Rock That Gives Every Word Wished,
about the Los Lunas monument & Eight Notches: "Lawlessness &
Disorder, Unlimited," & Other Stories, which includes a section on
Elfego Baca
LAINE, DON & BARBARA -
Taos authors of Frommer’s Comprehensive Travel Guide, Denver, Boulder,
and Colorado Springs, New Mexico and Arizona State Parks: a Complete
Recreation Guide & he co-edited Absolutely Every Bed & Breakfast
in New Mexico
L'ALOGE, BOB - Las
Cruces' author of books on NM ghosts, mysteries & collected biographies of
outlaws & lawmen, including Code of the West, Ghosts and
Mysteries of the Old West, The Incident of New Mexico’s Nightriders,
Knights of the Sixgun, Pistols and Petticoats & Riders
Along the Rio Grande
LAMADRID, ENRIQUE - UNM
professor of Spanish, interim director of Chicano Studies contributor to Paso
Por Aqui, co-author of Musica de los Viejitos: Hispano Folk Music of the
Rio Grande del Norte, Nuevo México Profundo:
Rituals of an Indo-Hispano Homeland, Pilgrimage to Chimayo &
author of Hermanitos Comanchitos:
Indo-Hispano Rituals of Captivity & Redemption & Tesoros del Espiritu: a
Portrait In Sound of Hispanic New Mexico. He is also included in Ceremony
of Brotherhood, Hispanic-American Writers, Nuevomexicano Cultural
Legacy: Forms, Agencies & Discourse, Reconstructing a Chicano/a
Literary Heritage & Voces: an Anthology of Nuevo Mexicano Writers.
For more information, please see the NM Index.
LAMAR, HOWARD R. - UNM
professor emeritus of English & author of The New Encyclopedia of the
American West. He is also included in New Mexico, Past & Present, a
Historical Reader. For more information, see the NM Index.
LAMB, ELIZABETH SEARLE -
Santa Fe writer, poet of the collections, Across the Windharp:
Collected & New Haiku & Casting Into a Cloud: Southwest Haiku;
some of her other work can be found in New Mexico Poetry Renaissance
& The Practice of Peace
LAMBERT, ANNE - Rio
Rancho author who is included in Chicken Soup for the Mother & Daughter
Soul. For more information, please see the NM Index.
LAMBERT, FRED - NM poet who
is included in New Mexico In Verse
LAMBERT, MARJORIE F. - NM
anthropologist, archaeologist, UNM professor, a northern NM Living Treasure
& author of Pueblo Indian Pottery: Materials, Tools, and Techniques
& A Survey and Excavation of Caves in Hidalgo County, New Mexico.
She was also a contributor to Prehistory
& History in the Southwest. For more information, see
the NM Index.
LAMDEN, SHULI - Santa Fe
teacher at the Santa Fe Community College, author & poet who is included in
Another Desert: Jewish Poetry of New Mexico
LAMPERT, GABRIEL - NMSU
professor & author of the novella "Reptile Triptych", set in
southern NM
LAMPHERE, LOUISE -
Albuquerque UNM anthropology professor, author of From Working Daughters to
Working Mothers: Immigrant Women in a New England Industrial Community, Structuring
Diversity: Ethnographic Perspectives on the New Immigration, To Run
After Them: Cultural and Social Bases of Cooperation In a Navajo Community,
co-editor of many titles & contributor to Hidden Scholars
LAMY, JOHN BAPTIST - 19th century Archbishop of NM, the first Bishop of
Santa Fe, the original of the title character of Willa Cather’s
novel Death Comes for the Archbishop & the author of Archbishop
Lamy: in His Own Words & The Complete Sermons of Jean Baptiste Lamy*, edited & translated by THOMAS J.
STEELE, S.J.
LANDAU,
EMILY FISHER, Lisa Sklenar
& Nayland Blake - authors of the children’s
picture book, Mishoo, Cosmopolitan Cat*
about Mishoo who has everything that a cat could
want, but while staying in her summer home in NM, she meets another cat who
shows her that there is even more to life.
Emily Fisher Landau is the heiress of the Fisher Brothers real estate
empire, owner of an enormous collection of modern American art, philanthropist
& owner of a home on a 4,000-acre family ranch in Galisteo
LANDAVAZO,
FRED - transcriber
& illustrator of the original Spanish text, entitled Semana Santa en Tomé, which became Holy Week In Tomé; a
New Mexico Passion Play, translated & annotated by THOMAS J. STEELE. The Tomé Passion Play had been passed along
orally from generation to generation for nearly 200 years. FRAY FRANCISCO DOMINGUEZ mentioned it in 1776
& it was still being performed in 1947 when it was filmed by Ben M. Otero
of Los Lunas. It was realized that the
play should be preserved in a written form.
LANG, RICHARD W. -
curator at the Museum of Navajo Ceremonial Art, Museum of Albuquerque, the
Maxwell Museum of Anthropology at UNM, archaeologist & ceramist for the
School of American Research & author of Faunal Remains from Arroyo Hondo
Pueblo, New Mexico: a Study In Short-Term Subsistence Change, contributor
to Food, Diet, & Population at Prehistoric Arroyo Hondo Pueblo, New
Mexico, Navaho Figurines Called Dolls, The Pottery From Arroyo
Hondo Pueblo, New Mexico: Tribalization And Trade In
The Northern Rio Grande & The Red & the Black: Santa Clara
Pottery by Margaret Tafoya, a Retrospective Exhibition
LANGE, CHARLES H. - professor emeritus at Northern Illinois University,
Las Vegas archaeologist, cultural anthropologist, professor at Highlands
University & author of Cochiti: a New Mexico Pueblo, Past and Present,
Life and Adventures of Adolph F. Bandelier & contributor to Hidden
Scholars. He was the editor of An Ethnography of Santa Clara Pueblo, New Mexico, Reflections: Papers on Southwestern
Culture History in Honor of Charles H. Lange & co-editor of The
Southwestern Journals of Adolph F. Bandelier
LANGE, OLIVER - a former
writer for the New Yorker magazine, a long-time NM resident & author
of Land of the Long Shadow (a southern NM mountain novel), Next of
Kin (a novel of love & acceptance, set in the Brazos country), Red
Snow (a hunting novel, set in the mountains outside Pecos) & Vandenberg
(the classic survivalist novel)
LANGE, PATRICIA FOGELMAN
- painter, research associate at the Museuum of New Mexico in Santa Fe &
author of Pueblo Pottery Figurines: the Expression of Cultural Perceptions
in Clay
LANGE, RON H. -
Albuquerque author of Master Your Migraine: the Migraine Home-Cure Manual*
LANGLEY, GLENDA STEWART -
Bosque instructor of English at NM Tech, novella author & poet who is
included in The Practice of Peace & Southwestern Women: New
Voices
LANMON, DWIGHT P. - Santa Fe retired museum curator & co-author
with FRANCIS HARVEY HARLOW, of The
Pottery of Santa Ana Pueblo & The Pottery of Zia Pueblo.
Please see the NM Index for further information.
LANSFORD,
ROBERT R. - co-author of The
Social & Economic Impact of Sandia National Laboratories on the State of
New Mexico FY 1989, The Economic Impact of the Waste Isolation Pilot
Plant on Southeastern New Mexico, FY 1988, Future Wood-Burning Options
for Home-Heating In New Mexico: Air Quality & Regulatory Concerns, The
Social & Economic Impact of the Department of Energy on the State of New Mexico,
FY 1990, & Sources of Irrigation Water & Cropland Acreages In
New Mexico, 1994-1996
LANZA, CARMELA DELIA - NM
poet who is included in Southwestern Women: New Voices
LARASON, LARRY - co-author of Ghost on the Moki
Steps, a mid-school ghost story. The author has lived on the Navajo
Reservation for 5 years, & now lives in Gallup. He’s interested in planning field trips to
see sites of interest in the Four Corners Region, which are available on
fourcornerssw.com; these give geological, historical & archaeological
information for the traveler.
LARESE, STEVE -
LARK,
THOMAS - contributor to History
of Hope: the African American Experience in New Mexico
LARSON, CAROLE - Roswell
journalist & author of Forgotten Frontier: Story of Southeastern New
Mexico
LARSON, ROBERT W. -
former Albuquerquean, Associate Professor of History at the University of
Northern Colorado & author of New Mexico Populism, New Mexico's
Quest for Statehood, Red Cloud: Warrior-Statesman of the Lakota Sioux;
& he is included in Labor in New Mexico & New Mexico, Past
& Present, a Historical Reader
LASSITER, KARL -
pseudonym of ROBERT E. VARDEMAN, &
western author of the NM novels, Long Walk & Warrior’s Path
LASSWELL, LINDA - Placitas author of Walking
Home on the Camino de Santiago, a fictionalized account of the author’s
on-again, off-again pilgrimage on the Camino de Santiago. Sometimes surreal,
sometimes poignant, often thought provoking, She walked the 800-kilometer trail
from St. Jean-de-Port on the French side of the Pyrenees across the northern
part of Spain to Santiago de Compostela.
She earned a bachelor’s degree in communications & journalism from UNM
while working at Popejoy Hall. She’s the
contract administrator, production coordinator, & "hospitality
queen" for the performers.
LATHAM, ART - Las Vegas
author of Lost in the Land of Enchantment, based partially on his travel
column for the Santa Fe New Mexican
LAUGHLIN, ROBIN KITTRELL -
Santa Fe author & photographer of Backyard Bugs
LAUGHLIN, RUTH - Santa Fe
author on Santa Fe history: Caballeros, & the famous historical
novel, Wind Leaves No Shadow. More information on her can be found in
the NM Index.
LAVADIE, JUANITA JARAMILLO -
Taos muralist, weaver & author who is included in Las Mujeres Hablan
LAVASH, DONALD R. - NM
historian, teacher, Lincoln County War historian & author of: Sheriff
William Brady, Tragic Hero of the Lincoln County War & Wilson and
the Kid. For information on his children’s title, see the New Mexican
Children’s Author list.
LAWRENCE, D.H. -
acclaimed English novelist & artist who lived briefly with his wife FRIEDA, in Taos. He wrote many essays &
short stories about NM including "The Princess", "The Wilful Woman", & "Woman Who Rode Away";
as a poet, he is included in Signature of the Sun; Southwest Verse,
1900-1950; & his novella, St. Mawr
is also set in NM. For further information, see the NM Index.
LAWRENCE, FRIEDA - Englishwoman,
wife of D.H. LAWRENCE & author of
her memoirs: Frieda Lawrence: the Memoirs and Correspondence & Not
I But the Wind. For more information, see the NM Index.
LAWRENCE, HENRY H. - NM
poet who is included in New Mexico In Verse
LAWRENCE, JUDY -
Albuquerque counselor on money management & author of Budget Kit: The
Common Cent Money Management Workbook & Common Cents: the
Complete Money Management Workbook
LAWRENCE,
LARS - pseudonym of PHILIP
STEVENSON, Santa Fe author of the series, “The
Seed”: The Hoax* (pt.2, v.2), Morning,
Noon & Night (pt.1, v.1), Old Father Antic* (pt.2, v.1) & Out
of the Dust* (pt.1, v. 2), all set in NM.
For more information, see the NM Index.
LAYNE, MARION MARGERY -
pen name of Marion Woolf,
Margery W. Papich
& Layne Torkelson, authors
of the Balloon Affair, a mystery set at Albuquerque’s Balloon Fiesta
LAZAR, ARTHUR - former
New Mexican, now a professor at Lake Forest, award-winning photographer &
author of Intimate Landscapes & Of Earth and Timbers Made: New
Mexico Architecture
LE MARQUE, TINA - Santa
Fe painter & author of Coyote Woman: a Continuing Journal of My Life As
An Artist & Warrior Woman: a Journal of My Life As an Artist
LEA, AURORA LUCERO-WHITE -
folklorist, San Miguel Co. Superintendent of Schools & author of Literary
Folklore of the Hispanic Southwest. More information on her can be found in
Nuestras Mujeres: Hispanas
of New Mexico p. 39 (see LUCERO-WHITE LEA,
AURORA) & Southwest Heritage p. 257+ (see WHITE, AURORA LUCERO)
LEA, TOM - El Paso, former
Santa Fean, painter, illustrator, author of The Art of Tom Lea
& The King Ranch; & novelist of The Wonderful Country,
set partially in NM. He is also included in Southwest Writers Anthology.
For more information, see the NM Index.
LEACH, NICKY - has written or contributed to 22 guidebooks
focusing on the natural & cultural history of the American West &
Hawaii. She also writes regularly for Sunset & New Mexico
Magazines. She lives north of Santa Fe.
LEBLANC, STEVEN A. - anthropologist, archaeologist, director of the
Mimbres Foundation, former UNM professor, who now teaches archeology at Harvard
University & is the director of collections at the Peabody Museum of
Archaeology & Ethnology in Cambridge, MA.
He, J.J. BRODY & ANTHONY BERLANT founded the Mimbres Foundation
in 1974 (later the model for the national US Archaeological Conservancy), to
save Mimbres sites from destruction. He studied the ancient Anasazi in NM’s El
Morro Valley & then wrote Prehistoric Warfare in the American Southwest. He also wrote The Mimbres People: Ancient
Pueblo Painters of the American Southwest;
co-authored Constant Battles: the Myth of the Peaceful, Noble Savage,
The Galaz Ruin: a Prehistoric Mimbres Village in
Southwestern New Mexico & Short-Term Sedentism
In the American Southwest: the Mimbres Valley Salado;
& contributed to Mimbres Pottery: Ancient Art of the American Southwest:
Essays
LECHUGA, ELIDA A. -
Albuquerque novelist & author who is included in Las Mujeres Hablan
& Voces: an Anthology of Nuevo Mexicano Writers
LECOMPTE, JANET - NM
historian included in By Grit & Grace: Eleven Women Who Shaped the
American West, editor of Emily, the Diary of a Hard-Worked Woman,
author of Pueblo, Hardscrabble, Greenhorn: the Upper Arkansas, 1832-1856
& Rebellion in Río Arriba, 1837
LEDMAN, JUDY - UNM Mental
Health Center pediatrician & contributor to New Mexico in Maps
LEE, GREM - 4th
generation New Mexican rancher, great-grandson of Oliver M. Lee (renowned in NM
history), award-winning artist & author included in Hot Biscuits:
Eighteen Stories by Women and Men of the Ranching West
LEE, JENNIFER HALEY -
Manzano Mountains author who is included in The Spirit That Wants Me
LEE, KATHLEEN - Santa Fe
NMSU graduate, who won The Red Crane Books Writing Prize in honor of the late
poet JIM SAGEL. Her story, "Still
Life," was published in the Winter 2000 issue of NMSU's Puerto Del Sol magazine.
For more information, please see the NM Index.
LEE, RAND B. -
Albuquerque science fiction short story author who is included in Things
Invisible to See: Gay and Lesbian Tales of Magic Realism
LEE, RICHARD D. - New
Mexico Cooperative Extension Service Weed Specialist & co-author of Weeds
of the West
LEE, RUSSELL - New Mexico
F.S.A. photographer, collected in Far From Main Street: Three Photographers
In Depression-Era New Mexico
LEE, WEN HO - Los Alamos
Taiwan-American weapons-code scientist who wrote My Country Versus Me: the
First-Hand Account by the Los Alamos Scientist Who was Falsely Accused.
For more information, please see the NM Index.
LEEMING, DAVID -
Albuquerque author of Amazing Grace: a Life of Beauford
Delaney, God: Myths of the Male Divine, James Baldwin: a
Biography, Mythology of Native North America & Myths, Legends
and Folktales of America: an Anthology
LEFT HANDED - Navajo
memoirist of Left Handed, a Navajo Autobiography & Son of Old Man
Hat, a Navaho Autobiography
LEGATO, GINGER - El Rito
award-winning poet who publishes Poet Placemats & who is included in
Written With a Spoon: a Poet’s Cookbook
LEHMBERG,
STANFORD - former professor of
history at the University of Minnesota & the author of Holy Faith of Santa Fe. His
expertise in making use of the church archives & interviews with long-time
parishioners resulted in a balanced & detailed history of the buildings,
women’s groups, programs, outreach ministries, & church finances. It’s the oldest Episcopal church,
& one of the oldest of any Protestant denomination, in NM. It’s early leaders, such as Gov. L. Bradford Prince, Sen.
Thomas B. Catron, & Sen. Bronson M. Cutting, were prominent in government
& politics; their careers linked church & state in early 20th
LEHNERT, RICHARD - Santa
Fe author, assistant editor & music editor of Stereophile
magazine, poet of A Short History of the Usual*, & who is
also included in The Practice of Peace, Written With a Spoon: a
Poet’s Cookbook & XY Files: Poems on the Male Experience.
Please see the NM Index for further information.
LEIGH, VICTORIA -
Albuquerque romance author of Catch Me If You Can*, Dangerous Love*,
Flyboy*, Night of the Hawk* & Stalking the Giant*
LEIGHTON, DOROTHEA CROSS & ALEXANDER H. - former archaeologists of the Navajo & Zunis,
she was a physician & co-author with CLYDE
KLUCKHOHN, of The Navaho. They were co-authors of Children
of the People: the Navajo Individual and His Development, Gregorio, the
Hand-Trembler, & Lucky, the Navajo Singer. For more information,
see the NM Index.
LEIGHTY, PAUL - former NM
real estate broker, now retired in Tennessee & author of the New Orleans
mystery, Krewe of Infamy
LEIN,
PATRICIA WILLIAMS - author who grew
up on the Jicarilla Apache Indian Reservation in Dulce, & author of her
autobiography, Dulce: a
Memoir of the American West*
LEKSON, STEPHEN H. -
Albuquerque archaeologist for the National Park Service, formerly employed by
the Museum of NM, then with the Crow Canyon Research Center, now associate professor of anthropology at
the University of Colorado, Boulder, & author of several highly
respected books on Southwestern history, including Ancient Land, Ancestral Places: Paul Logsdon in the Pueblo Southwest, Chaco Canyon: a Center & its World,
Chaco Meridian: Centers of Political Power in the Ancient Southwest,
Great Pueblo Architecture of Chaco, Mimbres Archaeology of the Upper Gila, New Mexico & Nana’s
Raid: Apache Warfare in Southern New Mexico. He’s also a contributor to The Casas Grandes World, Prehistory & History in the Southwest, In Search of Chaco: New
Approaches to an Archaeological Enigma, The Road to Aztlan: Art From a
Mythic Homeland & Understanding Complexity in the Prehistoric
Southwest. He’s also written with John L. Ninnemann &
J. McKim Malville, Canyon
Spirits: Beauty & Power in the Ancestral Puebloan
World*. For more information,
please see the NM Index.
LENARD-COOK, LISA - Corrales co-author of The Complete Idiot's Guide
to Numerology, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Palmistry, The
Complete Idiot's Guide to Reincarnation, The Complete Idiot's Guide to
Tarot & Fortune-Telling, The Intuitive Arts on Love*; &
author of K.I.S.S. Guide to Dreams. She is the winner of the Jim Sagel/Red Crane Books Award for her novel Dissonance,
which is set in Los Alamos, & she’s also written Coyote
Morning, a witty examination of the interaction between people & the
wilderness. For more
information, please see the NM Index.
LENIHAN, DANIEL - Santa
Fe underwater archaeologist, head of the Submerged Cultural Resources Unit of
the National Park Service, co-author of Underwater Wonders of the National
Parks: a Diving & Snorkeling Guide & co-novelist of Justice for
None & Wake of the Perdido Star
(neither set in NM)
LENZINI, NICOLAS - Santa
Fe General Manager of a Pontiac-Buick-GMC dealership, who grew up in a small Colorado
mining town, & author of Death of an Archangel*. For more
information, please see the NM Index.
LEVCHUK, BERENICE -
Navajo poet who is included in Reinventing the Enemy’s Language
LEVERING, DONALD - Santa
Fe author of Outcroppings From Navajoland,
poet, teacher, journalist, & Child Support Enforcement Division’s computer
system director, some of whose work can also be found in New Mexico Poetry
Renaissance
LEVIN, DANA - Santa Fe
award-winning poet, awarded the American Poetry Review's Honick
First Book Prize, the Witter Bynner Prize from the
American Academy of Arts & Letters & a NEA Fellowship, teacher at the
College of Santa Fe's Creative Writing Program, & poet of In the
Surgical Theatre. For more information, please see the NM Index.
LEVIN, ROB - editor of Albuquerque: Blazing New Trails
LEVINE,
RICHARD -
LEVOY, GREGG - formerly
an adjunct professor of journalism at UNM & author of The Business of
Writing* & Callings, Finding and Following an Authentic Life
LEWIS, JANET - California
novelist & poet, who lived in Santa Fe during the 1920’s, who is included
in Sisters of the Earth, p. 188+ & Fiction!: Interviews With
Northern California Novelists
LEYBA, MARIA -
Albuquerque author called "La Voz de
Barelas", author of a book of poetry, Prisoners in My Backyard*,
& who is included in Southwestern Women: New Voices
LEZON, DALE - Española
poet & teacher of creative writing & English at Northern New Mexico
Community College
LI, ANNETTE CHARTIER -
Albuquerque co-author with DANETTE F. THOMPSON,
of romance novels
LIBERTY, LOU - retired
Sandia Preparatory English & history teacher, & author of Constant
Possum: a History of Sandia Preparatory School*. For more information,
please see the NM Index.
LIEBERT,
MARTHA - award-winning founder of
the Bernalillo-Algodones-Placitas Library (recently
renamed the Martha Liebert Library) in Bernalillo;
Sandoval County Historical Society archivist & author of pamphlets on TimeLine
for Peña Blanca & Bernalillo; & illustrator of Los Matachines: a Dance Drama For San Lorenzo, by Richard
Joseph Kloeppel
LIGON, J. STOKLEY -
Department of Game and Fish ornithologist & Carlsbad author of New Mexico
Birds and Where to Find Them
LILIENTHAL, BETTY - Los
Alamos landscape photographer & photographer of A Guide to Bandelier
National Monument & Los Alamos Outdoors
LILLY, BEN - southwestern
NM big-game hunter & author of Ben Lilly’s Tales of Bears, Lions and
Hounds*. For more information, please see the NM Index.
LINCOLN, KENNETH - Santa
Fe professor of Native American Literature at UCLA & author of The Good
Red Road: Passage Into Native America, Men Down West & Native
American Renaissance
LINDSAY, RICHARD - NM
jewelry designer & author who is included in The Spirit That Wants Me
LINDSKOLD, JANE -
Albuquerque science fiction & fantasy author of novels, including Brother
to Dragons, The Buried Pyramid, Child of a Rainless Year (a
fantasy set in Las Vegas, NM, about a house which comes alive), Companion to Owls, Changer (King Arthur in Albuquerque) & its sequel, Legends
Walking, Donnerjack (a virtual reality
world), Marks of Our Brothers, Pipes of Orpheus, Smoke and
Mirrors, Through Wolf's Eyes & it's sequels, Wolf’s Head,
Wolf’s Heart, Dragon of Despair & Wolf Captured; & a book of literary criticism & biography
of Roger Zelazny. She is also
included in The
Blue & the Gray Undercover,
Death by Horoscope, Drakas!, Earth,
Air, Fire, Water (Tales from the Eternal Archives, #2), Lord of the
Fantastic: Stories in Honor of Roger Zelazny, Mardi Gras Madness:
Stories of Murder & Mayhem in New Orleans, Past Imperfect, Service
of the Sword (Worlds of Honor #4), Williamson Effect & Worlds
of Honor. For further information, please see the NM Index.
LINFORD, LAURANCE D. -
archaeologist, an administrator with the Gallup-McKinley County Public Schools
& author of Navajo Places, History, Legend, Landscape & Tony Hillerman's Navajoland: Hideouts,
Haunts, and Havens in the Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee Mysteries
LINN-GUST, MICHELLE -
Albuquerque high school health teacher & author of Do They Have Bad Days
in Heaven? Surviving the Suicide Loss of a Sibling*
LINTHICUM, LESLIE - Albuquerque
Journal reporter who is included in Multicultural Southwest: a Reader
LIPMAN, JANE - founder
& director of the Taos Institute, psychotherapist, teacher & poet who
is included in Practice of Peace
LIPPMAN, LIONEL W. -
Capitan co-author of Capitan, New Mexico, 1900-2000, Home of Smokey Bear,
the Living Symbol. For more
information, please see the NM Index.
LIPPARD, LUCY - noted
Galisteo art critic, activist & author of A Different War: Vietnam In
Art, Mixed Blessings: New Art in a Multicultural America & Overlay:
Contemporary Art and the Art of Prehistory. She is also a contributor to Living
Shrines: Home Altars of New Mexico & Michael Lucero: Sculpture
1976-1995. Please see the NM Index for more information.
LISTER, FLORENCE C. & ROBERT H. - He was the former chief archaeologist for the
National Park Service, & director of the Archaeological Research Center at
Mesa Verde & of the Chaco Center. She’s a former research associate at the
Arizona State Museum. Both were UNM graduates & together they wrote many
authoritative books on southwestern archaeology, including Anasazi Pottery:
Ten Centuries of Prehistoric Ceramic Art, Aztec Ruins on the Animas,
Chaco Canyon: Archaeology and Archaeologists, Earl Morris and
Southwestern Archaeology, Maiolica Olé: Spanish & Mexican Decorative Traditions Featuring
the Collection of the Museum of International Folk Art, Those Who Came
Before: Southwestern Archeology in the National Park System & Windows
of the Past: Ruins of the Colorado Plateau.
They were also contributors to In Search of Chaco: New Approaches to
an Archaeological Enigma, New Light on Chaco Canyon & Prehistory & History in the
Southwest. She’s also written
several books of memoirs, including: Behind Painted Walls: Incidents in
Southwestern Archaeology & Pot Luck: Adventures in Archaeology. She’s also a historian of archaeology &
has written Prehistory in Peril: the Worst & the Best of Durango
Archeology, Troweling Through Time: the
First Century of Mesa Verdean Archaeology & Windows
of the Past: Ruins of the Colorado Plateau.
Since his death, she lives in Mancos, CO.
LITCHMAN, KRISTIN EMBRY -
Los Alamos-raised, now Albuquerque author of a children’s historical novel set
in Salt Lake City: All is Well & her autobiography, Secrets of a
Los Alamos Kid, 1946-1953
LITTAUER, MARITA -
Albuquerque professional speaker, owner of CLASServices,
Inc. & Christian author of Come As You Are & Love
Extravagantly, & with her mother FLORENCE,
co-author of Getting Along With Almost Anybody, Personality Puzzle: Understanding
the People You Work With & Talking So People Will Listen
LITTLE, KIMBERLEY GRIFFITHS - Peralta children’s author of the soccer novel, Breakaway &
the story of an Acoma boy, Enchanted Runner & it's sequel, The
Last Snake Runner. For more information, see the NM Index.
LITTLEBIRD, HAROLD -
Santa Fe, Santo Domingo/Laguna Pueblo potter, storyteller, musician, artist,
poet of On Mountains’ Breath. For more information, see New Mexico
Poetry Renaissance, Remembered Earth, Returning the Gift, Songs
From This Earth on Turtle's Back, Sweet Grass Lives On, Voices
From the Rio Grande & Words in the Blood. Please see the NM
Index, for further information.
LITTLEBIRD, LARRY -
Laguna/Santo Domingo Pueblo TV & film actor & author, who is included
in Ceremony of Brotherhood, Earth Power Coming & The
Serpent’s Tongue; & poet of Hunting Sacred, Everything Listens: a
Pueblo Indian Man's Oral Tradition Legacy
LITZ, JOYCE - Albuquerque editor of her
grandmother’s memoirs: The Montana Frontier: One Woman's West.
Please see the NM
Index for further information.
LLOYD, C. ROBERT - photo-optical technician at White Sands Missile
Range, field photographer for archeological expeditions, a chef, German
translator, community theater actor, writer & poet of Homage/image*,
& who’s included in In Company: an
Anthology of New Mexico Poets After 1960 p. 161+
LOBATO, RAFAEL - Llano de
San Juan poet, folklorist & military veteran, who contributed to Ceremony
of Brotherhood
LOBLEY, ROBERT E. - Fort
Sumner-born & raised illustrator of the children’s picture story, Hannah
Hummingbird
LOEFFLER, JACK - Santa Fe
oral historian, musician, environmental activist, editor of Headed Upstream:
Interviews With Iconoclasts, author of Adventures With Ed: a Portrait of
Abbey & La Musica de los Viejitos: Hispano Folk Music of the Rio
Grande del Norte, he also recorded & produced Tesoros
del Espíritu: a Portrait in Sound of Hispanic New
Mexico, written by ENRIQUE R. LAMADRID.
For more information, please see the NM Index.
LOGGHE, JOAN - La Puebla National
Endowment for the Arts poet, artist-in-residence, author of the poetry
collections: Blessed Resistance, Sofia, Twenty Years In Bed
With the Same Man & What Makes a Woman Beautiful; co-editor of Another
Desert: Jewish Poetry of New Mexico; while some of her other work can be
found in In Company: an Anthology of New
Mexico Poets After 1960 p. 403+, New Mexico Poetry Renaissance, The
Practice of Peace, Written With a Spoon: a Poet’s Cookbook p. 28+
& XY Files: Poems on the Male Experience. For more information, see the NM Index.
LOGSDON, PAUL -
photographer, former test pilot & author of Ancient Land, Ancestral
Places: Paul Logsdon in the Pueblo Southwest, & who is included in The
Essential Landscape: the New Mexico Photographic Survey
LONG, ALICE LAVINIA -
Santa Fe poet. For more information, see the NM Index.
LONG, GOLDBERRY - former
Taos author of her autobiographical novel, Juniper Tree Burning, about
an alienated young woman, who travels cross-country to understand her hippie
Taos family & their dysfunctional lives. For more information, see the NM
Index.
LONG, HANIEL - Santa Fe
poet & author of Interlinear to Cabeza de Vaca & Piñon
Country; he is also included in New Mexico In Verse, Signature of
the Sun; Southwest Verse, 1900-1950 & Southwest Writers Anthology.
More information on him can be found in the NM Index.
LONGACRE, W.C. -
Albuquerque owner of W.C.’s Mountain Cafe &
cookbook author of Great Salsas by the Boss of Sauce: from the Southwest and
Points Beyond
LONGLEY, BERNIQUE - Santa
Fe artist & author who is included in The Spirit That Wants Me
LOOMIS, HELEN TURNER -
Albuquerque Public Schools teacher, piano teacher, composer & poet who is
included in Earth Chant, Sandscript p. 71 & Turquoise Land
LOONEY, RALPH - Albuquerque
Tribune & Rocky Mountain News editor, ghost-town enthusiast
& author of Haunted Highways: the Ghost Towns of New Mexico & O’Keeffe
and Me: a Treasured Friendship
LOPEZ, ALEJANDRO - Santa
Cruz native, photographer, artist, oral historian & translator, who is
included in Ceremony of Brotherhood
LOPEZ, FERMIN - Española
English teacher & author who is included in Hispanics in the United
States: an Anthology of Creative Literature
LOPEZ, LETICIA - El
Paso-native, now Santa Fe journalist & poet who is included in Written
With a Spoon: a Poet’s Cookbook p. 14+
LOPEZ, LORETTA - El
Paso-born, now Albuquerque, illustrator of Say Hola to Spanish
& author & illustrator of Birthday Swap & its Spanish
version: Que Sorpresa de Cumpleaños
LOPEZ, NANCY - Roswell's
world-renowned golf star & author of Education of a Woman Golfer
& Nancy Lopez’s the Complete Golfer
LÓPEZ DE PADILLA, MARÍA ESPERANZA - Albuquerque poet who is included in Infinite Divisions: an
Anthology of Chicana Literature. For more information, see the NM Index.
LÓPEZ-GASTÓN, DR. JOSÉ R. -
former NM Highlands University history professor & author on the Spanish
history of NM: Tradición Hispánica de Nuevo México
LOPINOT, NEAL - archeobotanist, crew
chief for the Star Lake Project & a contributor to The Star Lake
Archaeological Project: Anthropology of a Headwaters Area of Chaco Wash, New
Mexico
LOPOPOLO,
CARLOS - historian, genealogist, & author The New
Mexico Chronicles: Los Lunas, Los Chaves, The New Mexico Chronicles:
Belen, The New Mexico Chronicles: Foundations, The New Mexico
Chronicles: Tome & The New Mexico Chronicles: Valencia
LORETTO, ESTELLA - Jemez
Pueblo clay sculptor & contributor to Ceremony of Brotherhood.
For more information, please see the NM Index.
LOVATO, ALBERTO "MORGAN" - Embudo-born critic & short story author, who is
included in Cuentos Chicanos (1980 ed.)
LOVATO, ANDREW LEO - Santa Fe native, Tesuque associate professor at the College of Santa Fe
& author of Santa Fe Hispanic Culture: Preserving Identity in a Tourist
Town
LOVATO, CAROL - American
history teacher at Albuquerque High & author of Brother Mathias, Founder
of the Little Brothers of the Good Shepherd
LOVATO,
CHARLES - Santo Domingo Pueblo
silver jeweler, painter, professor at
LOVATO, REBECCA -
LOVE, HARRELL & DOROTHY - Black, former Santa Fe artists & owners of the
Touch of Love Gallery, now Albuquerque authors of their autobiography, Somebody
Ought to Testify. For more information, please see the NM Index.
LOVERIDGE, ARTHUR N. - author of A Man Who Knew How to Live Among His
Fellow Men: a Graphic Life Story of Chester T. French (Citizen of Albuquerque)
LOVELESS, JOAN POTTER -
Arroyo Seco weaver, artist & memoirist of 40 years in Taos: Three
Weavers
LOVETT, SARAH - Santa Fe
author of a mystery series, starring the Santa Fe forensic psychologist, Sylvia
Strange, which includes: Dangerous Attachments, Acquired Motives,
Desperate Silence, Dantes’ Inferno,
Dark Alchemy & the nonfiction work: Unique New Mexico: a Guide to
the State’s Quirks, Charisma and Character. For more information, see the
NM Index & the New Mexican Children’s Authors list.
LOW DOG, TIERAONA -
Albuquerque director of the NM Herb Center & author of the herbal workbook,
Gifts From the Earth*
LOWNEY, BRUCE - UNM
lithography professor, painter & author who is included in The Spirit
That Wants Me
LOWRY, JOE DAN -
Albuquerque leading expert on the subject of Turquoise Unearthed: An
Illustrated Guide, a resource for rock hounds & serious collectors. He
owns & operates the Turquoise Museum in Albuquerque. For further
information, please see the NM Index.
LOZINSKY, RICHARD -
geologist whose doctoral dissertation at NM Tech was a pioneering investigation
of the sedimentary deposits of the Albuquerque basin, & contributor to Albuquerque:
a Guide to Its Geology and Culture, 2003 ed. & Basins of the Rio
Grande Rift: Structure, Stratigraphy, & Tectonic
Setting. For more information, please see the NM Index.
LOZOYA, OSCAR -
Albuquerque professional photographer who specializes in publicity photos,
& is the author of The Art of Black & White Portrait Photography:
Techniques from a Master Photographer. For more information, please see the
NM Index.
LUBY, THIA - Santa Fe
award-winning author of The Children’s Book of Yoga, Games & Exercises:
Mimic Plants, Animals & Objects & Yoga for Teens: How to
Improve Your Fitness, Confidence, Appearance, & Health-& Have Fun Doing
It!
LUCAS, SPENCER G. - NM
Museum of Natural History's Curator of Paleontology & author of Advances
in San Juan Basin Paleontology, Bisti
& Dinosaurs of New Mexico
LUCERO, AL - Santa Fe owner of Maria’s Restaurant & author of Maria's Real
Margarita Book
LUCERO,
DONALD L. - Las Vegas-raised, Dartmouth, MA psychologist,
historian & novelist of A Nation of Shepherds:
driven into exile from Spain, to escape the threat of death by the Inquisition,
the Robledo family immigrates first to Mexico & then joins the Oñate
colonial expedition to NM. Historically
accurate & conveying a sense of NM’s wilderness & beauty, the novel
brings to life a courageous family set on establishing a new home. He’s also the historian of the excellent, The
Adobe Kingdom: New Mexico, 1598-1958, as Experienced by the Families Lucero de Godoy y Baca
LUCERO, EVELINA ZUNI -
Isleta/San Juan Pueblo creative writing teacher at Santa Fe's Institute of
American Indian Arts & award-winning novelist of Night Sky, Morning Star,
& who is included in Here First & Returning the Gift. For
more information, please see the NM Index.
LUCERO, HELEN R. -
Northern NM-born & raised, Director of Visual Arts at the National Hispanic
Cultural Center of NM, former Hispanic folk art curator at the Museum of
International Folk Art, former curator of Latino art at the National Museum of
American Art, Smithsonian Institution, author of Chimayó Weaving: the
Transformation of a Tradition & contributor to Flow of the River/Corre el Río, Nuevomexicano Cultural Legacy: Forms,
Agencies & Discourse, & Spanish New Mexico: the Spanish Colonial
Arts Society Collection. For more information, please see the NM Index.
LUCERO, LUCINDA -
Albuquerque short story author & winner of International Quarterly’s
Crossing Boundaries Writing Award, for her short story "New Mexico Family
Roots"
LUCERO, ROBERTO ANDRÉS -
Albuquerque poet, family & mental health counselor, & novelist of Sangre
del Monte
LUCERO, THOMAS L. - Albuquerque
architect who has worked extensively with adobe buildings & co-author with THOMAS
J. STEELE, SJ, of Religious Architecture in Hispanic New Mexico*
LUCERO-WHITE LEA, AURORA
see LEA, AURORA LUCERO-WHITE
LUHAN, MABEL DODGE -
Harlem Renaissance & later, Taos art patron & memoirist of Edge of
Taos Desert, Lorenzo In Taos, Movers and Shakers, Taos and
Its Artists & Winter in Taos. More information on her can be
found in the NM Index
LUHRS, RUTH J. - Sandia
Park's award-winning columnist, children's author of Kidding around
San Diego*
& xeriscape gardening expert of Mountain
and High Plains Gardening. For more
information, please see the NM Index.
LUJÁN, E. - Velarde
author, published in La Bandera Americana, an Albuquerque newspaper. He
is included, too, in Noche Buena: Hispanic American Christmas Stories,
p. 77+
LUJAN, FLOYD - Las
Vegas-born graphics instructor at Highlands University & contributor to Ceremony
of Brotherhood
LUJAN, IGNACIA PAULA DURAN DE - El Porvenir elementary school teacher, some
of whose memories of growing up in NM can be found in A New Mexico Scrapbook
& in Literary Folklore of the Hispanic Southwest
LUJAN, JAMES - Taos Pueblo native, Albuquerque-raised filmmaker, producer, writer,
playwright of “Casi Hermanos”
about the conditions leading to the Pueblo Revolt, & “Kino & Teresa”
based on “Romeo & Juliet” but set in 17th century Santa Fe. For more information, please see the NM
Index.
LUJAN, RON - Santa Fe
artist, mechanical designer, jeweler & author who is included in Fly-Fishing
in Northern New Mexico
LUJAN, ROSE - Las Cruces
retired elementary school teacher & author who is included in The Spirit
That Wants Me
LUJAN, ROY - New Mexico
Highlands professor & co-author of New Mexico Government and Politics
LUCKEY, WILLIAM A.
see PERRY, BELINDA
E.
LUCKINGHAM,
BRADFORD - history
professor at Arizona State University & author of The Urban Southwest: a
Profile History of Albuquerque, El Paso, Phoenix, Tucson
LUMARI - a prominent
spiritual teacher, channel, psychic consultant & author living in Santa Fe,
who has provided psychic guidance for over twenty years. She is the author of Alawashka Language of Creation, & leads
workshops, nationally. For more information, please see the NM Index.
LUMMIS, CHARLES F. -
early editor, historian, archaeologist, librarian, popularizer of the Southwest
who lived in Isleta Pueblo, activist & author of Bullying the Moqui, Dateline Fort Bowie, King of the
Broncos, Land of Poco Tiempo,
Lummis in the Pueblos, Southwestern
Wonderland, & A Tramp Across the Continent (he walked from
Cincinnati to Los Angeles in the winter of 1884-1885 to accept a job on the Los Angeles Times). He’s also included in Multicultural
Southwest: a Reader. More
information on him can be found in the NM Index, New Mexican Fiction & the
NM Children’s Author bibliographies.
LUMPKINS, WILLIAM -
Clayton-born, Santa Fe painter, architect, adobe expert, artist, craftsman, a
northern NM Living Treasure & author of Adobe: Past and Present, La
Casa Adobe, & Casa del Sol: Your Guide to Passive Solar House.
He’s also a contributor to New Light on Chaco Canyon. For more information, see the NM Index.
LUNA, JACKIE -
author of History of the San Miguel de Laredo-Carnuel
Land Grant of 1763
LURIE, BOBBIE - Corrales
poet of The Book I Never Read*, which won the 2003 Edges Prize.
The book is a collection of the poems written during the last years of her
mother’s life when she was dying of Alzheimer’s. Please see the NM Index for
further information.
LUSCHEI, GLENNA - founder of Solo Press in Albuquerque, recipient of
D.H. Lawrence & Wurlitzer Foundation awards, she’s the author of an artist
book, Wind Machine* & Shot With Eros*. She’s also included in In
Company: an Anthology of New Mexico Poets After 1960 p. 446+
LUTHER, T.N. “TAL” - Taos
author of Collecting Santa Fe Authors & Collecting Taos Authors
LUTZ, FAYNE - Taos
newspaper food editor & author of Cooking Northern New Mexico
Traditional Foods
LUZ, CONSUELO - Santa Fe
host of a national daily Spanish radio program & poet who is included in Another
Desert: Jewish Poetry of New Mexico & Saludos!: Poemas de
Nuevo Mexico = Poems of New Mexico
LYCETT,
MARK - archaeologist, who received
his PhD from UNM & is now on the faculty of the
LYMAN, MORGAN -
LYNES, BARBARA BUHLER - Santa Fe curator of the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
& The Emily Fisher Landau director of the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum Research
Center. She is the author of Georgia O'Keeffe: the Catalogue Raisonne, Maria Chabot - Georgia O'Keeffe:
Correspondence 1941-1949, O'Keeffe on Paper, O'Keeffe's O'Keeffes: the Artist's Collection; & she is
included in From the Faraway Nearby: Georgia O'Keeffe as Icon. For
more information, please see the NM Index.
LYNN, MARY ELIZABETH -
former Albuquerque editor of Sandia Publishing Corp., who now lives in Silver
City; romance author who often uses the pseudonym, ANGEL
MILAN, & the author of the NM mystery, Tavera
Legacy. For more information, see Words of Love, p. 297+
LYNN, SANDRA -
Albuquerque poet, photographer, journalist, program officer for the New Mexico
Endowment for the Humanities & author of Windows on the Past, Historic
Lodgings of New Mexico. For more information, please see the NM Index.
LYNN, THEODORE -
Albuquerque president of Sandia Publishing Corp., author of young adult
nonfiction, including co-writing No Slack, the autobiography of MICHAEL COOPER, Albuquerque's former LA Laker
LYON, BENTLEY -
Albuquerque military novelist, forestry expert & author of Summer Stalk*,
Sundown* & the espionage thriller, White Crow
LYON, DANNY -
nationally-known El Llanito photographer & author
of Pictures from the New World. For more information, please see the NM
Index.
LYONS, FERN - former Los
Alamos housewife, long-time columnist & book reviewer for the New Mexico
Magazine, & co-editor of Los Alamos: the First Forty Years
MABERY, KEN - compiler of Natural History of El Malpais
National Monument
MABERY, MARILYN - Grants
author of The Volcanic Eruptions of El Malpais. For further information,
please see the NM Index.
MACCANNELL, LINDA -
Gallup native, Albuquerque-raised, now Calgary photographer of Riders of
West: Portraits From Indian Rodeo
MACCURDY, RAYMOND (TIM) -
UNM Professor Emeritus of Spanish, short story author & novelist of Caesar
of Santa Fe: a Novel From History. He is also included in Tierra: Contemporary
Short Fiction of New Mexico
MACDONALD, JERRY - Las
Cruces paleontologist who discovered the Robledo Mountain Permian fossil trackway, described in Earth’s First Steps
MACGREGOR, SANDY - Santa
Fe former publisher & editor, now co-author of The Happy Camper’s
Cookbook, Eating Well Is Portable. He is married to MARILYN ABRAHAM. For more information, please
see the NM Index.
MACK, GREG H. - Las
Cruces professor of geology at NMSU & author of The Geology of Southern
New Mexico
MACKER,
JOHN - Bernal-area award-winning
poet of The Cutting Distance*, The First Gangster*, Women
& Rivers*, Burroughs at Santo Domingo*, & Adventures in
the Gun Trade*. He contributed
interviews & essays to John Arthur Maynard’s Venice West: The Beat
Generation In Southern California*, A People’s Ecology: Explorations In
Sustainable Living, & The Mercury Reader*. He’s also a journalist & has been
involved in the marketing of the whole foods industry
MACKLER, ANNE MARIE -
Detroit-born author, now living with her husband & two daughters in Las
Cruces. She is the editor of Frontera Norte Sur, an on-line news digest,
& the former director of the Border Book Festival. Her writing appears in
many publications, including Sin Fronteras Journal, Puerto del Sol
& Written With a Spoon: a Poet’s Cookbook p. 12+
MACKLER, TASHA -
Albuquerque former bookstore owner of Murder Unlimited & author of Murder...by
Category: a Subject Guide to Mystery Fiction
MACLAINE, SHIRLEY -
Academy Award-winning actress & Santa Fe author of The Camino: a Journey
of the Spirit, Dance While You Can, Dancing in the Light, Don't
Fall Off the Mountain, It's All in the Playing, My Lucky Stars: a
Hollywood Memoir, Out on a Leash: Exploring
the Nature of Reality & Love, Out
on a Limb & You Can Get There From Here. For more
information, please see the NM Index.
MACLAUCHLAN, ANDREW -
Santa Fe executive pastry chef at the Coyote Café & author of The Making
of a Pastry Chef: Recipes and Inspiration From America’s Best Pastry Chefs
& co-author of Flavored Breads: Recipes from Mark Miller's Coyote Cafe.
For more information, please see the NM Index.
MACNAUGHTON, ANNE - Taos visual artist,
teacher, playwright, director of the Taos Poetry Circus & the World Poetry
Bout Association; & poet, some of whose work can be found in In Company: an Anthology of New Mexico Poets
After 1960 p. 467+, New Mexico Poetry Renaissance, Shine On You Crazy Diamond:
Poems By Teens & Their Mentors, Written
With a Spoon: a Poet’s Cookbook & XY Files: Poems on the Male
Experience.
MACPHERSON, ANGUS -
Albuquerque artist & essayist of Landscapes: Angus Macpherson
MADDISON, LAUREN - former
Santa Fe mystery novelist of Deceptions: a Connor Hawthorne Mystery, set
in Washington, D.C., Santa Fe & the Navajo Reservation, & it's sequel, Witchfire: a Connor Hawthorne Mystery
MADISON, DEBORAH - Santa
Fe cookbook author of Local Flavors: Recipes, Menus, & Insights From
America's Farmers' Markets (which won the 2003 James Beard Foundation/Kitchenaid Book Award, in the General/Cooking for Everyday
category), The Savory Way, Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone, Vegetarian
Suppers from Deborah Madison’s Kitchen* & she wrote the vegetable
chapter of the new Joy of Cooking; former chef of The Greens, a
vegetarian restaurant, run by the San Francisco Zen Center & winner of the
1994 M.F.K. Fisher Award. For more information, please see the NM Index.
MADUENO, AMALIO - Santa
Fe poet
MAGADI, ATHI-MARA - Santa
Fe author & photographer of Santa Fe Originals: Women of Distinction.
For more information, please see the NM Index.
MAGEE, GREG S. - Las
Cruces' landscape architect, botanist & author of El Paisaje
de Soledad = The Landscape of Solitude: a Hiking Guide
MAGEE. VOSJI - Taos &
Santa Fe home designer & author of Archetype Design House As a Vehicle
for Spirit
MAGOFFIN, SUSAN S. - one
of the first Anglo women who traveled the Santa Fe Trail: Down the Santa Fe
Trail and Into Mexico. More information on her can be found in the NM
Index.
MAHER, JANET - author who
is included in The Spirit That Wants Me
MAHER,
RAMONA - Phoenix-born winner of a
Spur Award from the Western Writers of America for best western juvenile,
former editor of UNM Press, Kirtland Air Force Base Shock Tube Facility
technical editor, poet & children’s author of The Abracadabra Mystery*,
which is set in Santa Fe & Alice Yazzie's Year, which describes each
month of a year in the life of an eleven-year-old Navajo girl
MAHLER, RICHARD - Santa
Fe award-winning freelance reporter for National Public Radio, journalist,
photographer & author of New Mexico’s Best, Guatemala, Adventures
in Nature, Santa Fe Memories*, Stillness, Daily Gifts of
Solitude & co-author of Belize, Adventures in Nature, Secrets
of Becoming a Late Bloomer: Extraordinary Ordinary People on the Art of Staying
Creative, Alive, & Aware in Mid-Life & Beyond & Tending the
Earth, Mending the Spirit: the Healing Gifts of Gardening. For more
information, please see the NM Index.
MAISEL, CAROLYN - NM poet
who is included in Voices From the Rio Grande
MAKER, HARRY J. - NMSU
professor emeritus of the Agronomy Department & contributor to New
Mexico in Maps
MALKUS, ALIDA - 1930’s
woman's page editor & feature writer for the Albuquerque Morning Journal, & novelist of Caravans
to Santa Fe & Dragonfly of Zuni.
For more information on her children’s titles, please see the New
Mexican Children’s Authors List
MALLERY, BARBARA VOGT - author of a vivid & poignant memoir, Bailing
Wire & Gamuza: the True Story of a Family Ranch
Near Ramah, New Mexico, which won the History Society of NM, Ralph Emerson Twitchell Award. Her
dad was Evan Z. Vogt, a sheeprancher & custodian
of El Morro National Monument. For
further information, please see the NM Index.
MALMGREN, EBBY- part-time
Taos writer, potter & poet who is included in The Practice of Peace,
Written With a Spoon: a Poet’s Cookbook & XY Files: Poems on the
Male Experience
MALMONT, VALERIE S. -
UNM-educated author of the "cozy" mystery companion novels: Death,
Lies, and Apple Pies, Death Pays the Rose Rent & Death,
Snow, and Mistletoe: a Tori Miracle Mystery,
which are not set in New Mexico. For more information, see the NM Index.
MALONE, HANK - Cedar
Crest clinical psychotherapist, community organizer, radio talk-show host, poet
of the nontraditional New Mexico Haiku & essayist of Experiencing
New Mexico
MALOOF, JUDY - an
assistant professor of Spanish at UNM & editor & translator of Voices
of Resistance: Testimonies of Cuban and Chilean Women*, a collection of
memoirs of women who’ve fought for human rights & justice
MALOTT, ALAN M. - Albuquerque
lawyer & co-author of Workers’ Compensation In New Mexico
MANCHEGO, RALPH A. - NM
Environmental Improvement Division employee & co-author of New Mexico
Radon Survey
MANGAN, FRANK -
Ruidoso-raised, now part-time resident author of Ruidoso Country
MANION, PATRICIA JEAN (SISTER) -
Loretto nun & novelist of Only One Heart; the Story of a Pioneer Nun in
America*, which is set in Santa Fe, Bernalillo & Las Cruces, about a
young woman who travels the Santa Fe Trail in 1874
& author of Beyond the Adobe Wall*, which traces the
history of the early years of the Sisters of Loretto in Santa Fe through the
life of Mother Magdalen Hayden, who was the first
superior of the convent
MANN, CHARLES - Santa Fe
garden photographer, plant specialist & co-author of The Secret Gardens
of Santa Fe & Viva Guadalupe!: the Virgin in New Mexican Popular Art
MANN, EDWARD BEVERLY -
author of the 1930s western Gamblin' Man*,
a about Billy the Kid & New Mexico, Land of Enchantment. He is
included in the NM Index.
MANN, JONATHAN M. -
former State Epidemiologist, then with the Center for Disease Control, then
Professor of Epidemiology & Director of the Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights at the Harvard
University School of Public Health, author of AIDS in the World II &
contributor to New Mexico in Maps. For more information, see the NM
Index.
MANNS, WILLIAM & JUDY -
Santa Fe award-winning photographer, antique collectors & co-authors of the
pictorial celebrations: Cowboys and the Trappings of the Old West & Painted
Ponies: American Carousel Art. For more information, please see the NM
Index.
MANZ, BRUNO - Albuquerque
retired physicist & author of A Mind in Prison: the Memoir of a Son
& Soldier of the Third Reich. After serving as a soldier in the Nazi
army, he became a physicist & was recruited to work with Wernher von Braun in Huntsville, AL, then transferred to
White Sands Missile Range. For more information, please see the NM Index.
MAPLES,
J.D. - the pen name of husband &
wife authors who live in
MAPSON, JO-ANN -
acclaimed former Santa Fe, now Alaska novelist of excellent, romance novels: Bad
Girl Creek, it's sequels, Along Came Mary (set partially in NM)
& Goodbye Earl; Blue Rodeo (set in NM), Hank & Chloe,
Loving Chloe, Shadow Ranch & The Wilder Sisters (also
set in NM)
MARCIANO, FRANCESCA - Roman
author who wrote her novel, Casa Rossa, in San
Cristobal & Arroyo Seco. For more information, please see the NM Index.
MARES, E.A. - native New
Mexican, UNM professor emeritus of English, director of the Writers' Inn at
UNM, former poetry editor for the Blue Mesa Review, playwright, essayist
& author of I Returned and Saw Under the Sun: Padre Martínez of Taos: a
Play, Las Vegas, New Mexico: a Portrait & Padre Martinez: New
Perspectives From Taos, poet of The Unicorn Poem & Flowers &
Songs of Sorrow & With The Eyes of a Raptor: Selected Poems;
& author who is a contributor to Ceremony of Brotherhood, Cuentos
Chicanos (1980 & 1984 ed.), Flow of the River/Corre
el Río, In Company: an Anthology of New Mexico Poets After 1960 p.
222+, New Mexican Lives: Profiles & Historical Stories, New
Mexico Plays, New Mexico Poetry Renaissance, Paper Dance: 55
Latino Poets, Paso Por Aqui, Shine On You Crazy Diamond: Poems By Teens &
Their Mentors, & Voices From
the Rio Grande
MARES, MICHAEL ALLEN -
Albuquerque-born author of A Desert Calling: Life in a Forbidding Landscape
& Encyclopedia of Deserts;& professor of zoology & ecology
who specializes in convergent evolution, adaptation & community
organization of desert rodents of the world & South American mammals. For
more information, please see the NM Index.
MARJON, SOLEDAD - New
Mexican artist of hand painted photographs & author who is included in Las
Mujeres Hablan
MARK, KATHLEEN - Los
Alamos author of Meteorite Craters & contributor to Standing By and
Making Do: Women of Wartime Los Alamos
MARKEL, MARILYN FAE & CARILYN RAE ALARID - twin
sisters, NM- born & raised, Marilyn
is pursuing a Master’s degree in History & teaches about the
increasing need to preserve our archaeological treasures in NM, while Carilyn has a Master’s degree in Special Education &
synthesizes classroom instruction to emphasize the importance of character
development. Together they’ve written
& illustrated Talks All Day Has
the Courage to Speak: Mimbres Children Learn Citizenship* & Old Grandfather Teaches a Lesson: Mimbres
Children Learn Respect
MARMON, LEE - Laguna Pueblo photographer & author of Pueblo
Imagination: Landscape & Memory in the Photography of Lee Marmon. For more information, please see the NM
Index.
MAROKVIA, MIREILLE - Las
Cruces author of Immortelles: Memoir of a Will-o’-the-Wisp, about her
coming of age in France, during WWI
MARQUEZ, ANTONIO C. - UNM
associate professor of English & Comparative Literature; contributor to Paso
Por Aqui, Teaching American Ethnic Literatures, co-editor of Cuentos
Chicanos & Las Mujeres Hablan
MÁRQUEZ, TERESA -
director of UNM’s Government Information Dept., bibliographer for Chicano
Studies, founder of CHICLE (Chicano Culture & Literature Exchange) on the
Internet, UNM reference librarian & contributor to Sabine R. Ulibarri:
Critical Essays & co-editor of Las Mujeres Hablan: an Anthology of
Nuevo Mexicana Writers
MARRIOTT, ALICE - former
long-time Santa Fe ethnologist & author of many excellent books on American
Indians, including Maria: the Potter of San Ildefonso & Indians
of the Four Corners: the Anasazi and Their Pueblo Descendants. Her
autobiography is Valley Below. She is also included in North of the
Rio Grande & Southwest Writers Anthology. For more information,
see the New Mexican Children’s Authors list & the NM Index.
MARS,
JULIE - award-winning
Albuquerque teacher at TVI, author of A Month of Sundays: Searching For The
Spirit & My Sister* which is about the 7 months that she spent as her
dying sister's primary caregiver, & after her sister died, she visited 31
NM traditional churches, mosques,
temples, Native American ceremonies, in her hope of
finding an outlet for her grief & getting some answers to spiritual
questions; & novelist of The Secret Keepers, an suspenseful, intelligent & compelling story. She’s taught
composition, creative writing, business & journalism in high schools,
colleges, prisons, & on Indian reservations. She’s worked as a gift book writer for Ariel
Books (she wrote about 50 mini books for them), sold options on two
screenplays, & has worked as a journalist & in Hollywood as a film
script analyst.
MARSHALL, MICHAEL P. - NM
archaeologist & author of Anasazi Communities of the San Juan Basin,
Qualacu: Archeological Investigation of a Piro Pueblo, Rethinking Navajo Pueblitos
& Rio Abajo: Prehistory and History of a Rio Grande Province
MARSHALL, TERRY -
Carlsbad author of Carlsbad
MARSTON, STEPHANIE - Santa Fe author of The Divorced Parent:
Success Strategies for Raising Your Children After Separation, If Not
Now, When?: Reclaiming Ourselves at Midlife & The Magic of
Encouragement: Nurturing Your Child's Self-Esteem. She also co-compiled Chicken Soup to
Inspire a Woman's Soul: Stories Celebrating the Wisdom, Fun & Freedom of
Midlife & Life Lessons For Women
MARTÍN, CHRIS -
Albuquerque manager of the Mesa Verde Plant & Wildlife Refuge, former host
for KUNM-FM’s Women’s Focus, & contributor to Christmas Blues
MARTIN, CRAIG - former
National Park Service naturalist, junior high science teacher; now, Los Alamos
editor of Fly-Fishing in Northern New Mexico, author of Enchanted
Waters: a Guide to New Mexico’s Hot Springs, Los Alamos Place Names,
Mountain Biking in Northern New Mexico & 75 Hikes in New Mexico.
For more information, see the NM Index.
MARTIN,
CURTIS - Raton-born, Maxwell high
school teacher, fiction editor of New Mexico Quarterly, university professor & author
of The Hills of Home*, set in Cimarron
MARTIN, GEORGE R.R. -
Santa Fe writer for TV's "Beauty & the Beast", & contributor
to Omni, Analog, & The Washington Post. He is the
author of a Nebula & 3 Hugo-winning novels & short stories: Fevre Dream, Game of Thrones (&
its sequels, A Clash of Kings & Storm of Swords), Nightflyers, Quartet: Four Tales from the
Crossroads & Windhaven. He is the editor & contributor to
the "mosaic" novel series, Wild Cards. He also wrote a classic
60's hippie mystery, Armageddon Rag & is included in Good New
Stuff: Adventure SF in the Grand Tradition & Very Large Array: New
Mexico Science Fiction and Fantasy
MARTIN, MICHELLE -
Albuquerque contemporary romance author of The Long Shot & Stolen
Hearts (neither set in NM)
MARTIN, ROBERT A. -
Albuquerque lawyer & co-author of Workers’ Compensation In New Mexico
MARTIN, WILLIAM C. - UNM
biology professor, co-author of Fall Wildflowers of New Mexico, Flora
of New Mexico, Spring Wildflowers of New Mexico, Summer
Wildflowers of New Mexico & contributor to New Mexico in Maps
MARTINEZ, DEMETRIA - Albuquerque native who now
lives in Tucson, journalist for the National Catholic Reporter,
playwright, poet of Breathing Between the Lines, Devil's Workshop,
Three Times a Woman: Chicana Poetry & novelist of Mother-Tongue,
which won the Western States Arts Federation 1994 Book Award for fiction. She based the novel in part on her 1987
federal indictment on charges related to smuggling Central American refugees
into the US. A religion reporter at the
time covering the Sanctuary Movement, she was found not guilty on First
Amendment grounds. For additional
information, see: Chicana Ways: Conversations With Ten Chicana Writers, Floricanto Sí, In Company: an Anthology of
New Mexico Poets After 1960 p. 412+, Infinite Divisions: an Anthology of
Chicana Literature, Las Mujeres Hablan, New Mexico Poetry
Renaissance, Tarasque II, Voces: an Anthology of Nuevo Mexicano
Writers, & Walking the Twilight II. For more information, see the NM Index.
MARTINEZ, ERMINIO J. -
Las Vegas author of Fermin Garcia, Vaquero
y Muy Hombre
MARTINEZ, FLOYD - NM-born
& raised, nationally recognized expert in community mental health &
author of the young person’s Capulin, NM ranch novel: Spirits of the High
Mesa. For more information, please see the NM Index.
MARTINEZ, JOSEPH G. R. & NANCY C. - UNM professors & authors of Math Without
Fear: a Guide for Preventing Math Anxiety in Children & Reading
& Writing to Learn Mathematics: a Guide & a Resource Book
MARTINEZ, MIGUEL - lifelong resident of Taos, renowned painter in oil,
pastels & acrylics, & printmaker, who’s also included in It’s All in
the Frijoles. For further
information, please see the NM Index.
MARTÍNEZ, VALERIE -
Las Vegas poet of Absence, Luminescent, which won the Four Way Books
Larry Levis Poetry Prize & a Greenwall Grant from
the Academy of American Poets, & World to World, assistant professor
of English & Creative Writing at the College of Santa Fe, translator,
former assistant professor of English at NM Highlands University, who is
included in Shine
On You Crazy Diamond: Poems By Teens & Their Mentors, Touching the Fire: Fifteen Poets of Today’s
Latino Renaissance & co-editor of Reinventing the Enemy’s Language. For more information, please see the NM
Index.
MARYBOY, NANCY -
Navajo/Cherokee author who lives on the Navajo Reservation, & who is
included in Neon Pow-Wow
MASLEY, DOROTHY HOLLAND -
Albuquerque researcher, secretary, teacher & poet who is included in Sandscript
p. 104 & Turquoise Land
MASON, KATRINA - author
of Children of Los Alamos: an Oral History of the Town Where the Atomic Age
Began
MASON, MARILYN - Santa Fe
corporate psychologist, training director & author of Igniting the
Spirit at Work: Daily Reflections*.
MASON, MARSHA - Santa Fe actress,
4-times nominated for the Academy Award & author of her autobiography, Journey:
a Personal Odyssey
MASTERS, JOHN - British,
India-born, career officer in the Indian Army, who later moved to Santa Fe,
where he founded the Santa Fe Chili & Marching Society, author of many
novels, including: By the Green of the Spring, Heart of War, High
Command & Now, God Be Thanked; & The Breaking Strain*,
a mystery set partially in Shiprock
MASTERSON, MELISSA -
former police sergeant, now NM junior high English teacher & author of Ride
the Waves to Freedom, Calvin Graef's Survival Story
of the Bataan Death March and his Escape From a Sinking Hellship
MASTERSON, ROBERT -
Albuquerque editor, essayist, widely-published poet, & the editor/publisher
of Lords of Language, a NM-based literary arts organization. He’s included in In
Company: an Anthology of New Mexico Poets After 1960 p. 518+ & Tierra:
Contemporary Short Fiction of New Mexico
MASTROGIOVANNI, ANA MARIA -
Argentinean-born Albuquerque graphic artist, designer & author who is
included in Las Mujeres Hablan
MATHER, CHRISTINE - Santa
Fe's former curator of the Museum of International Folk Art, now, author of Colonial
Frontiers: Art & Life In Spanish New Mexico: the Fred Harvey Collection,
Native America: Arts, Traditions & Celebrations, Santa Fe
Christmas, Santa Fe Houses, Santa Fe Style & True
West: Arts, Traditions, and Celebrations
MATHER, COTTON - founder
& president of the NM Geographical Society, & author of Registered Places
of New Mexico: the Land of Enchantment
MATHEWS,
MARY CATHERINE & KELSY DALY -
authors of Santa Fe with Kids from A to Z: an Illustrated Guide*. Mathews
is a Santa Fe broadcast journalist, who worked as a TV news reporter/anchor in
Midland, Texas & later was a news writer/producer in NYC. Daly is a native of Santa Fe & the mother
of three. She worked as an environmental
engineer for 10 years
MATHEWS, PATRICIA SHAW -
Albuquerque accountant, co-author with Andre Norton of On Wings of Magic
& author of many published science fiction & fantasy short stories. She
is also included in The Feminine Eye: Science Fiction and the Women Who
Write It. For more information, please see the NM Index.
MATHIEN,
FRANCES JOAN - NM archaeologist
& co-author of The Pajarito Plateau: a Bibliography, editor of Ceramics,
Lithics, & Ornaments of Chaco Canyon: Analyses of
Artifacts from the Chaco Project, Excavations at 29SJ 633: the Eleventh
Hour Site, Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, Excavations at 29SJ 627, Chaco
Canyon, New Mexico, & co-editor of & contributor to The First
100 Years: Papers in Honor of the State & Local Archaeological Societies of
New Mexico
MATHIS, MARK -
Albuquerque television reporter/anchor, radio talk show host, media trainer,
consultant, husband of Diane Anderson, former news anchor for KOAT & author
of Feeding the Media Beast: an Easy Recipe for Great Publicity
MATIELLA, ANA CONSUELO -
columnist for the Santa Fe New Mexican, novelist of the short story
collection, Truth About Alicia & Other Stories, which explores the
world of contemporary and traditional Latinas; & she is also included in Walking
the Twilight: Women Writers of the Southwest
MATSON, EVA JANE - Las
Cruces’ former teacher, historian & author of It Tolled for New Mexico:
New Mexican Captured by the Japanese, 1941-1945
MATSUDA, HEKISAMEI (SHIGERU) - Japanese American poet imprisoned during WWII at the Santa Fe Justice
Department Camp, some of whose haiku can be can be found in May Sky: There
Is Always Tomorrow, p. 208
MATSUDA, PAM - Albuquerque
author
MATTHEWS, KAY - El Valle
outdoor enthusiast, author of children's books & Day Hikes in the Taos
Area, Hiking the Wilderness: a Backpacking Guide to the Wheeler Peak,
Pecos, and San Pedro Parks Wilderness Areas & Hiking Trails of the
Sandia and Manzano Mountains. She & her husband Mark Schiller own
Acequia Madre Press. Please see the NM Index & the New Mexican Children’s
Authors list for more information.
MATTHEWS, WASHINGTON - NM
ethnologist & philologist of the Navajo: Mountain Chant, a Navajo Ceremony,
Navaho Legends, Navajo Weavers: Navajo Silversmiths, Night
Chant, a Navaho Ceremony; & poet who is included in Signature of the
Sun; Southwest Verse, 1900-1950
MAULDIN, BARBARA - Curator
of Latin American Folk Art at the Museum of International Folk Art in Santa Fe,
contributor to Extraordinary in the Ordinary & author of Masks of
Mexico & Traditions in Transition: Contemporary Basket Weaving of
the Southwestern Indians
MAULDIN, BILL -
Albuquerque Pulitzer Prize-winning WWII cartoonist, author of Bill Mauldin’s
Army, The Brass Ring, Up Front, & his memoirs: Sort of
a Saga. For more information, see the New Mexico Index
MAULDIN, MICHAEL -
critically acclaimed composer & author who is included in The Spirit
That Wants Me
MAUSKOPF, NORMAN - Santa
Fe photographer & author of Dark Horses, Rodeo & Time
Not Here: the Mississippi Delta
MAYDEW, RANDALL C. -
Albuquerque former Sandia Laboratory engineer & author of America’s Lost
H-Bomb! Palomares, Spain 1966*
MAYER, ROBERT - Santa Fe
journalist, novelist of Execution, Grace of Shortstops, Midge
and Decker, Search, Sweet Salt & author of his memoirs, Notes
of a Baseball Dreamer. For more information, see the NM Index.
MAYER, TOM - Santa Fe
short story author collected in Bubble Gum and Kipling & The
Weary Bedroom. For more information, see the NM Index.
MAYFIELD, CARL - Rio Rancho poet who’s included in In Company: an Anthology of New Mexico Poets
After 1960 p. 435+ & Sometimes the Light: Poems
MAYNARD,
LEE -
Cochiti resident, the president &
executive director of the Storehouse in Albuquerque & novelist of Crum,
the story of a young boy coming of age in Appalachia, & it’s sequel, Screaming
With the Cannibals. Please see the
NM Index for more information.
MAYS, BUDDY - former Albuquerque
Tribune photographer & author of Ancient Cities of the Southwest,
Indian Villages of the Southwest, People of the Sun, & Wildwaters
MAYS, DESIRÉE - Santa Fe
resident lecturer for the Santa Fe Opera, author of an annual book, Opera
Unveiled*, which profiles the productions of the Santa Fe Opera; the
history of each opera, the composer, the libettist,
& the people involved in the production. For further information, please
see the NM Index.
MAZII - Navajo poet &
author who is included in Returning the Gift. For more information, see
also JIM, REX LEE
MAZZIO, JOANN - Silver
City's award-winning young adult suspense novelist of Leaving Eldorado
& One Who Came Back
MCALLISTER, PAUL E. -
former NM historian & contributor to New Mexico in Maps
MCBRIDE, REGINA - a New
Mexico native now living in New York, a writing teacher at Hunter College, an
award-winning poet, & novelist of haunting & lyrical Irish romances, The
Marriage Bed, The Nature of Water & Air & The Land of
Women, set partially in NM. For more information, please see the NM Index.
MCCAFFERTY, JEANNE -
part-time Albuquerque resident & mystery novelist of Star Gazer
MCCAIN, IRENE -
Roswell-raised novelist of the romance, Mañana Man
MCCALLISTER, WESLYNN -
part-time Taos resident, poet & novelist of Apache Springs, a
nostalgic romantic suspense novel set partly in Taos, in the late '50s &
early '60s
MCCANNA,
P. F. (PETER F.) - Albuquerque
realtor & author of Decades of Destiny, a compilation from the
Albuquerque scrapbooks begun by him & continued by Raymond J. McCanna
MCCARTHY, SUSANN - Taos
hospice volunteer, home health aide & poet who is included in The
Practice of Peace & Written With a Spoon: a Poet’s Cookbook
& Woven on the Wind: Women Write About Friendship in the Sagebrush West,
p. 201
MCCARTHY, TIM - NM
rancher & author who is included in Hispanics in the United States: an
Anthology of Creative Literature
MCCARTY, FRANKIE - 1st woman reporter for the Albuquerque
Journal
MCCARTY, JOHN L. - NM
poet & compiler of New Mexico In Verse
MCCAULEY, BARBARA -
Connecticut-born & raised, now Truchas gallery owner, painter, poet who is
included in Practice of Peace, The Spirit That Wants Me & Written
With a Spoon: a Poet’s Cookbook p. 52+ & author of Small Mercies,
a memoir of her sister’s suicide. She is married to ALVARO
CARDONA-HINE. For more information, please see the NM Index.
MCCLINE, JOHN - a slave
who fought in the Civil War, moved to Santa Fe, worked for the Hagerman family
& later wrote Slavery in the Clover Bottoms: John McCline’s
Narrative of His Life During Slavery and the Civil War. For more
information, see the NM Index.
MCCLUNEY, MIRIAM -
Albuquerque Academy English teacher & poet who is included in Sandscript
p. 39 & Turquoise Land
MCCONNELL, ASHLEY -
Albuquerque author of many "Quantum Leap" fantasy novels; including,
in paperback only: Quantum Leap: the Novel*, Random Measures,* Too
Close for Comfort*, & The Wall*
MCCONNELL,
EDWINA & TEDDY JONES -
co-authors of a fictional biography of Santa Fean Elinor
Delight Gregg, R.N., the first Supervisor of Nurses for the Indian Service, in A Stone For Every Journey: Traveling
the Life of Elinor Gregg, R.N.*. It’s a thoroughly researched true biography
set within a fictional relationship between Elinor
Gregg & 2 UNM nursing students in the summer of 1966.
MCCONNELL, HELEN APPLEGARTH -
MCCORD, RICHARD - former Santa
Fe Reporter owner & founder; now a freelance writer: author of the
nonfiction exposé, Chain Gang: One Newspaper Versus the Gannett Empire
& The Other State:
MCCORMICK, LINDA -
NM-raised author who is included in The Spirit That Wants Me
MCCORMICK, MICHAEL - NM author
who is included in The Spirit That Wants Me
MCCORMICK, WILFRED -
Albuquerque author of many children's sports novels, including Pro Toughback. Please see the NM Index & the NM
Children’s Author bibliography, for further information.
MCCOY, MAUREEN - part-time Taos resident, teacher at Cornell University, winner of
Michener & Wurlitzer Foundation awards & novelist of Divining Blood*,
Junebug*, Summertime* & Walking
After Midnight*
MCCRACKEN, CATHRYN - UNM
graduate, contributor to Christmas Blues & poet of the collection, Earth
Dreams, Quarried in New Mexico
MCCRIGHT, GRADY E. - Las
Cruces co-author of Disorder in Lincoln County: Frank Warner Angel's Reports
& Jessie Evans, Lincoln County Badman
MCCUE, KAREN -
Albuquerque science fiction author
MCCULLOCH, FRANK -
Gallup novelist who moved to NM because of health reasons, & author of Eagle
in the Sky, a fictionalized biography of NM governor Don Albino Perez in
Santa Fe, illustrated by son, Frank McCulloch, Jr. It was later republished with more information
as Revolution & Rebellion: How Taxes Cost a Governor His Life in 1830s
New Mexico, based on the governor's granddaughter’s memories. For more
information, please see the NM Index.
MCCUTCHEON, CHUCK -
former Albuquerque Journal reporter & author of Nuclear
Reactions: the Politics of Opening a Radioactive Waste Disposal Site. For
more information, please see the NM Index.
MCDONALD, CORRY - retired
mechanical engineer, active in NM wilderness preservation & author of Dilemma
of Wilderness & Wilderness: a New Mexico Legacy
MCDONALD, MARGARET ESPINOSA - Belen middle school teacher of NM history & contributor to Heroes
of the Rio Abajo: Stories of the Brave Men and Women in Valencia County History
& co-author of Valencia County, New Mexico: History through the
Photographer's Lens
MCDONALD, MICHAEL - Santa
Fe emergency room nurse, historian, photographer & author of The Quiz of
Enchantment. He is also included in Lure, Lore and Legends: a History of
Northern New Mexico’s Moreno Valley
MCDOWELL, ALICE - Placitas
author, registered nurse, social worker, spiritual counselor & cancer
survivor, who wrote The Good News: It's Cancer*, about the
transformation of her life, by her illness
MCDOWELL, STEVE - Santa
Fe photographer of adobe churches, whose work is included in Persistence of
Memory
MCEWAN, MARIA - Catholic
Social Services audio-visual healer & author who is included in The
Spirit That Wants Me
MCFADDEN, STEVEN - a
native of New England who now lives in Santa Fe, he's a writer, a teacher,
& a healer. He's the author of Legend of the Rainbow Warriors*; Profiles
in Wisdom: Native Elders Speak About the Earth*; The Little Book of
Native American Wisdom*; Teach Us To Number Our Days*; & Farms
of Tomorrow Revisited*. For more information, please see the NM Index.
MCFIE, MAUDE ELIZABETH BLOOM - Las Cruces author of A History of the Mesilla Valley. For more
information, please see the NM Index.
MCGARRITY, MICHAEL -
Santa Fe former Sheriff’s Department investigator, psychotherapist, ranch hand,
college professor & author of the mystery series: Tularosa, Mexican
Hat, Serpent Gate, Hermit’s Peak, Judas Judge, Under
the Color of Law, Big Gamble, Everyone Dies & Slow
Kill (in chronological order). For
more information, see the NM Index.
MCGAW, WILLIAM C. -
biographer, historian, journalist, actor, organizer of the Pancho Villa Museum
in Columbus, owner of the ghost town of Mowry City,
& author of Savage Scene: the Life and Times of James Kirker & Southwest Saga - the Way It Really Was!
MCGEAGH, ROBERT -
Española philosophy & history professor & early NM historian of Juan
de Oñate’s Colony in the Wilderness
MCGINISS, MARY - blind Santa Fe counselor, & poet of Listening
for Cactus, some of her other work can be found in In
Company: an Anthology of New Mexico Poets After 1960 p. 385+, New Mexico
Poetry Renaissance, The Practice of Peace, Voices From the Rio
Grande & Written With a Spoon: a Poet’s Cookbook
MCGOVERN, J.B. MONTGOMERY -
NM poet who is included in New Mexico In Verse
MCGRATH, JAMES - La Cieneguilla poet, visual
artist & teacher; was the poet-artist-in-residence with Arts America in
Yemen, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia & the Republic of the Congo in the 1990s
& his 50 year retrospective as an artist was held at the Meridian Gallery
in San Francisco in 2002. He’s the
author of At the Edgelessness
of Light: Poems* & is included in the poetry collections:
MCGREEVY, SUSAN BROWN -
Santa Fe Research Associate, former director of the Wheelwright Museum &
author of Anii Anaadaalyaa’igii:
Recent Trends in Navajo Art*, Indian Basketry Artists of the Southwest:
Deep Roots, New Growth, Maria, the Legend, the Legacy, Translating
Tradition: Basketry Arts of the San Juan Paiutes*;
co-editor of Washington Matthews: Studies of Navajo Culture, 1880-1894
& is a contributor to Legacy: Southwest Indian Art at the School of
American Research & Navajo Saddle Blankets: Textiles to Ride in the
American West.
MCGUIRE, MELVIN - NM
State Policeman & author of Bloody Skies: a 15th AAF B-17 Combat Crew:
How They Lived and Died
MCHARNEY, CARYL - NM
educator, author, workshop leader, & creator of serigraphs &
copperplate engravings. For more information, please see the NM Index.
MCHENRY, PAUL -
Albuquerque expert on & author of Adobe and Rammed Earth Buildings, Adobe:
Build It Yourself & The Adobe Story: a Global Treasure. For more
information, please see the NM Index.
MCILVOY, KEVIN
- Las Cruces NMSU writing professor,
editor of Puerto del Sol, winner of the 2005 Governor's Awards for
Excellence in the Arts, & novelist of the highly acclaimed Fifth Station,
a novel about NM working people, Hyssop, an intelligent, NM romance of
the elderly & their spiritual lives, The Complete History of New Mexico:
Stories, Little Peg*, & A Waltz*. He’s also included in Tierra: Contemporary
Short Fiction of New Mexico. For more information, see the NM Index.
MCINTYRE, BARBARA - Santa
Fe former vice-president of marketing for Sotheby’s & co-author of Contemporary
Art in New Mexico
MCINTYRE, WADE - author
of State Fair!: the Biggest Show in New Mexico
MCKEE,
GWEN - Jackson, Mississippi
co-editor with Barbara Mosely of Best of the Best
from New Mexico Cookbook: Selected Recipes from New Mexico's Favorite Cookbooks. She’s the co-founder (with her husband,
Barney) & the editor-in-chief of Quail Ridge Press, she has dedicated the
past two decades to preserving America’s food heritage. Through Quail Ridge
Press, they’ve created the 30-volume Best
of the Best State Cookbook Series that includes over 12,000 classic
recipes.
MCKEE, JOHN DEWITT -
English professor at NM Tech & author of Time of Trouble, Time of
Triumph: a Centennial History of the First Presbyterian Church of Socorro, New Mexico
& William Allen White: Maverick on Main Street. He is also included
in The Spell of New Mexico
MCKENNA, JAMES A. -
southern NM pioneer, adventurer & author of his autobiography, Black
Range Tales
MCKENNA, MEGAN -
Albuquerque author of Blessings and Woes*
MCKENNA, PETER J. - NM anthropologist & contributor to Prehistory & History in the Southwest
MCKENZIE, JOSEPH-CHARLES -
UNM instructor in French & winner of the Scottish International Open Poetry
Competition for the long-poem category
MCKEOWN, TOM - NM poet of
the collection, Driving to New Mexico
MCKINNON, KAREN - UNM graduate with her masters in English, awarded a
NEA Poet-in-the-Schools grant, was a writer-in-residence at the Wurlitzer
Foundation in Taos, & is the poet of Coming True. She’s also included in In
Company: an Anthology of New Mexico Poets After 1960 p. 307+
MCLAUGHLIN, DARA - Rio
Rancho poet of her collection of poems: A Map of This World*
MCLAUGHLIN, MARIE - Santa
Fe author of the rhythmic animal picture book Those Toes*, which she
wrote for her 16 grandchildren
MCLAUGHLIN MICHAEL -
Santa Fe author or co-author of Back of the Box Gourmet, El Paso
Chile Company's Burning Desires: Salsa, Smoke, & Sizzle From Down by the
Rio Grande, Fifty-Two Meat Loaves, Great Books for Cooks, Manhattan
Chili Co. Southwest-American Cookbook: a Spicy Pot of Chilies, Fixins', & Other Regional Favorites, The New
American Kitchen, Pamela Morgan's Flavors: What's Next, What's Hot,
What's Cooking from New York's Premier Caterer, The Silver Palate
Cookbook, & The Southwestern Grill: 200 Terrific Recipes for Big
& Bold Backyard Barbecue. He also wrote almost 100 cooking,
entertaining & design articles for Bon Appetit,
Food & Wine, Cook's Magazine & House Beautiful,
before his death, in Eldorado. For more information, please see the NM Index.
MCLEMORE, VIRGINIA T. -
NM Environmental Improvement Division employee, author of Guidebook to the
Socorro Area, Uranium Resources in New Mexico, co-author of New
Mexico Radon Survey & Silver and Gold Occurrences in New Mexico
MCLERIE, JEANIE - singer
for the Albuquerque Cajun band, Bayou Seco & author who is included
in The Spirit That Wants Me
MCMULLEN, MARY
- pseudonym of MARY REILLY, Edgar Allan Poe
Award-winning Albuquerque mystery author of, among others: Better Off Dead,
But Nellie Was So Nice, A Grave Without Flowers, The Man With
Fifty Complaints, Prudence Be Damned, & Until Death Do Us
Part (none set in NM). She is also the author of The Gift Horse*, a
mystery set in Albuquerque. She is the
sister of URSULA CURTISS & the daughter of HELEN REILLY
MCNERNEY, JERRY -
Albuquerque novelist of Terrorism and Fear: Enter the Third Level*
MCNICKLE, D’ARCY -
Albuquerque Salish/Kootenai author of nonfiction,
novelist of Runner in the Sun (a novel of Anasazi life in 14th century
NM), The Surrounded (one of the earliest novels of the Native American
Renaissance, about the Salish Indians) & Wind
From an Enemy Sky (a novel about the Little Elk Indians in the early part
of the 20th century) & short stories, some of which are included in The
Singing Spirit. For more information, see the NM Index.
MCNITT, FRANK - former
resident of Farmington & Albuquerque, respected historian & author of Indian
Traders, Navajo Wars & Richard Wetherill: Anasazi
MCNUTT, GLADYS - real
name of Albuquerque author, Andrya, who wrote What's
An Angel*
MCWATTERS, ALICIA -
Albuquerque co-author of A Guide to a Naturally Healthy Bird: Nutrition,
Feeding, and Natural Healing Methods for Parrots & Super Nutrition
for Animals (Birds, Too!)
MCWHORTER, LARRY - former
NM cowboy & cowboy poet, some of whose work can be found in Cattle,
Horses, Sky, and Grass
MEAD, CHRISTOPHER - art
historian, UNM professor in architecture & author of The Architecture of
Bart Prince, a Pragmatics of Place & Houses by Bart Prince. For
more information, please see the NM Index.
MEAD, FRANCES HARVEY -
Albuquerque author of Conejos Country*
MEADOR, WILLIAM - former
NM author of the historical adventures, Nate’s Edge & Three Kids on a Mule, set in NM Territory
& west Texas. For more information, please see the NM Index.
MEADOWS,
JOHN P. - Army
guide, cowboy, farmer, peace officer, Tularosa mayor, he helped investigate the
disappearance of Colonel Albert Jennings Fountain, & knew many well-known
characters, including Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid as I Knew Them:
Reminiscences of John P. Meadows
MEANS,
FLORENCE CRANNELL - winner
of a Newbery Honor award, one
of the 1st authors to write about racism in children’s books, she also wrote Alicia*,
Carvers’ George, Our Cup Is Broken, Shadow Over Wide Ruin*,
set in Gallup & Silver Fleece: a Story of the Spanish in New Mexico. For more information, please see the New
Mexican Children’s Authors bibliography & the NM Index.
MEDNICK, CHRISTINA SINGLETON - San Cristóbal Ranch-raised author of San Cristóbal: Voices and
Visions of the Galisteo Basin
MEDOFF, MARK - Las
Cruces' Tony-winning playwright of Children of a Lesser God, The
Wager & When You Comin’ Back, Red Ryder?.
He also wrote the novel, Dreams of Long Lasting. For more information,
see the NM Index.
MEINEL, CAROLYN - Cedar
Crest author of computer book, The Happy Hacker* & president of the
consulting firm M/B Research & marketing research expert. For more
information, see the NM Index.
MEKETA, JACQUELINE -
Placitas historian & author of From Martyrs to Murders: the Old
Southwest's Saints, Sinners and Scalawags & Louis Felsenthal: Citizen Soldier of Territorial New Mexico;
editor of Legacy of Honor: the Life of Rafael Chacon, a Nineteenth-Century
New Mexican, & with her husband, One Blanket and Ten Days Rations:
1st Infantry New Mexico Volunteers in Arizona, 1864-1866. For more
information, please see the NM Index.
MELANSON, YVETTE - author
of Looking for Lost Bird, her autobiography & story of her life as a
Jewish woman, who found her Navajo roots & birth family
MELENDEZ, A. GABRIEL -
Albuquerque Associate Professor & Chair of UNM's American Studies, faculty
associate of the Southwest Hispanic Research Institute, scholar, bilingual novelist,
poet, author of So All Is Not Lost: the Poetics of Print in Nuevo-Mexicano
Communities, 1834-1958 & co-editor of Multicultural Southwest: a
Reader. He translated The Biography of Casimiro
Barela by Jose Emilio Fernandez. He is also
included in The Contested Homeland, a Chicano History of New Mexico, Nuevomexicano
Cultural Legacy: Forms, Agencies & Discourse, Tierra: Contemporary
Short Fiction of New Mexico & Voces: an Anthology of Nuevo Mexicano
Writers. For more information, please see the NM Index.
MELLA, DOROTHEE -
Albuquerque artist, color-psychologist & author of Language of Color
MELZER, RICHARD -
UNM-Valencia associate history professor, winner of the 1995 UNM’s Outstanding
Teacher of the Year Award; author of Break Down: How the Secret of the
Atomic Bomb Was Stolen During World War II, Coming of Age in the Great
Depression: the Civilian Conservation Corps Experience in New Mexico, 1933-1942,
Ernie Pyle in the American Southwest, Madrid Revisited: Life and
Labor in a New Mexican Mining Camp in the Years of the Great Depression,
editor of From Where I Stand: Contrasting Views of New Mexico History, Heroes
of the Rio Abajo: Stories of the Brave Men and Women in Valencia County History,
When We Were Young in the West: True Histories of Childhood; he is
included in Essays in Twentieth-Century New Mexico History &
co-authored Valencia County, New Mexico: History through the Photographer's
Lens. For more information, please see the NM Index.
MENAUL, JOHN - 1880s
Reverend whose texts in Laguna & English were the 1st US English-Native
American texts in NM. More information on him can be found in the NM Index.
MENDEZ, ELOISA - San
José-born, later Derry, award-winning cook, featured in New Mexico Magazine,
New Yorker Magazine & Sunset Magazine, & author of Mama
Eloisa’s Award Winning New Mexican Chile Recipes
MERA, HARRY P. - Santa Fe
county health officer, pottery expert, originator of the Indian Arts Fund &
author of Pueblo Designs: 176 Illustrations of the "Rain Bird"
& Pueblo Indian Embroidery. For more information, see the New Mexico
Index.
MERIWETHER, DAVID - early
NM governor & autobiographer of My Life in the Mountains & on the
Plains. For more information, see the NM Index.
MERLAN, THOMAS W. -
former NM historic preservation officer, co-editor of Anasazi Communities of
the San Juan Basin & contributor to Prehistoric New Mexico,
Background for Survey
MERRILL, C.S. (CAROL S.)
- Albuquerque poet, former employee of Geoorgia O’Keeffe, children’s librarian
at the Santo Domingo Pueblo & Cochiti Pueblo schools, editor of the
Southwest Woman’s Poetry Exchange, in Corrales, & author of a book of
poetry: O’Keeffe: Days in a Life.
She’s also included in In Company:
an Anthology of New Mexico Poets After 1960 p. 439+
MERRIMAN, DELILAH -
Albuquerque medical photographer, print maker, fine arts photographer &
author who is included in Las Mujeres Hablan
MERTZ, STEPHEN - author
of the fast-paced & exciting horror/romance Night Wind, set in the fictional
tiny community of Devil Creek, NM. For more information, please see the NM
Index.
METAL, ANDREW - Cochiti
Lake retired employee of the NM Department of Labor, & author of Dear
Folks, a collection of letters written by a young soldier to his family,
during WWII
MEYER, CAROLYN - very
prolific Albuquerque author of children's novels, craft books, other
nonfiction, & an adult novel, Brown Eyes Blue, a mother &
daughter story, set in the Amish country, of Pennsylvania. For more
information, please see the NM Index & the NM Children's Authors list
MEYER, DORIS - Santa Fe Professor Emeritus of Hispanic Studies at
Connecticut College, an affiliated research member of the Southwest Hispanic
Research Institute & a visiting scholar at UNM’s Latin American & Iberian
Institute. She’s written Speaking for Themselves: Neomexicano
Cultural Identity & the Spanish Language Press, 1880-1920, Victoria Ocampo: Against the Wind & the Tide, she edited Lives
on the Line: the Testimony of Contemporary Latin American Authors &
translated This America of Ours: the Letters of Gabriela Mistral &
Victoria Ocampo. For additional
information, please see the NM Index.
MEYER, MARIAN - Santa Fe
author & discoverer of Mary Donoho: New First
Lady of the Santa Fe Trail. She has also written Century of Progress:
History of the New Mexico School for the Deaf; while some of her memories
of growing up can be found in A New Mexico Scrapbook
MEYERS, HAROLD BURTON -
Arizona-born, NM-raised newspaperman, college teacher, staff correspondent, editor
for Time & Fortune magazines, & award-winning novelist of
Reservations
MEYERS, MATT - Black
Range contemplative, teacher of Mindfulness Meditation in Truth or Consequences
& poet who is included in Another Desert: Jewish Poetry of New Mexico
MEYERS, OURAY - Taos
artist, who is included in Southwest Towards the Twenty-First Century
MEYERS, ROBERT J. -
an associate professor of psychology at UNM.
He is also the Associate Director of the Clinical Research Branch of the
Center on Alcoholism Substance Abuse & Addictions (CASAA). CASAA is
internationally known for its excellence in substance abuse research &
treatment development. Dr. Meyers has worked in the substance abuse field for
over 27 years & has published several books, including Get Your Loved
One Sober: Alternatives to Nagging, Pleading, & Threatening, with BRENDA
L. WOLFE. Please see the NM Index
for further information.
MICHAELS,
SAMONE - Santa Fean who had a career
in aerospace on highly classified programs & cartoonist of Speak Your Truth: See No... Hear No...
Speak No UFOs*
MICHNOVICZ, JON - son & co-author with
his sister TONI MICHNOVICZ GIBSON of a
book on their father John “Mike” Michnovicz, a member of the Manhattan Project’s
photo-documentation unit, whose photographs were used for Los Alamos:
1944-1947
MICKELSON, MONTY -
MILÁN, VICTOR - Albuquerque technothriller,
adventure, & science fiction author of novels such as the Cybernetic
Samurai, its sequel, the Cybernetic Shogun, a spy novel, Red
Sands & a western, The War Party*, set in NM. He is also included in Very Large Array:
New Mexico Science Fiction and Fantasy & the mosaic novels, Wild
Cards
MILBURN, CARIN CALVERT -
Albuquerque children’s short story author & storyteller
MILES, CHUCK -
Missouri-born farm-boy, who served in WW II in the infantry until he was
wounded in Germany. He graduated from USC, pursued a merchandizing career until
he retired in Las Cruces, & met FELIX
PFAEFFLE, who was born in Karlsruhe,
Germany. At 16, Pfaeffle was drafted into the
Luftwaffe Flak Corps in 1944. He immigrated to the US in 1951, became a US
citizen, retired from the computer industry & lives in Las Cruces, where he
met Charles Miles & they decided to write Once Enemies, Now Friends: Two
Soldiers Tell Their Stories of WWII. For further information, please see
the NM Index.
MILLARD,
JOE (JOSEPH JOHN) - Minnesota author of For a Few Dollars More*, a NM western, who
also wrote children’s novels including Cut-Hand, the Mountain Man*, set
in Taos, & Raton, about "Uncle Dick" Richard Lacy Wootton
MILLER, DARLIS - Las
Cruces historian, NMSU professor & author of California Column in New
Mexico, Captain Jack Crawford: Buckskin Poet, Scout, and Showman
& Soldiers and Settlers: Military Supply in the Southwest; she also
co-edited & is included in New Mexico Women: Intercultural Perspectives
MILLER, JAY - investigative reporter
who grew up in Billy the Kid Country & author of Billy the Kid Rides
Again: Digging for the Truth* about 3 sheriffs who set out to
prove that Pat Garrett killed Billy the Kid, also proving that Brushy Bill of
Texas was not the real Kid. Along the way, the sheriffs enlisted Gov Bill
Richardson’s support & took Fort Sumner & Silver City on a wild ride
through court battles to dig up Billy & his mother. Gov Richardson found an attorney willing to
work free & provide Billy with a voice.
MILLER, JOHN J. - Albuquerque
science fiction author of Dinosaur Samurai, The Twilight Zone, a Witchblade novel, A Terrible Beauty; short story
author who is included in Drakas!, Lord
of the Fantastic: Stories in Honor of Roger Zelazny, The Very Large Array:
New Mexico Science Fiction and Fantasy, The Williamson Effect, &
the "mosaic" novel series, Wild Cards. He has also written
many novels: several in the Ray Bradbury series: Dinosaur Empire*; a
couple of Buck Rogers books, several men's adventure books under the name of
Jack Arnott, & is currently writing a new Wild
Cards novel. He is also the writer of the comic mini-series Hellhound*
MILLER, JONATHAN -
Albuquerque attorney & author of Amarillo in August: an Author’s Life on
the Road, a nonfiction book about his travels to promote his mysteries: Crater
County: a Legal Thriller of New Mexico & Rattlesnake Lawyer: a Legal
Thriller of the New West. Please see the NM Index for further information.
MILLER, MARCIA MUTH -
Santa Fe poet who is included in Sandscript p. 101 & Turquoise
Land. For further information, please see MARCIA
MUTH
MILLER, MARK - Santa Fe
chef, owner of the Coyote Cafe, & his most recent restaurant, Wildfire,
opened to rave reviews in Sydney, Australia.
He’s the author of Cool Coyote Cafe Juice Drinks, Coyote Cafe:
Foods from the Great Southwest: Recipes from Coyote Cafe, Santa Fe, New Mexico,
Coyote's Pantry: Easy Seasonings & Flavoring Techniques, Flavored
Breads: Recipes from Mark Miller's Coyote Cafe, The Great Chile Book,
The Great Salsa Book, Mark Miller's Indian Market Cookbook, Red
Sage: Contemporary Western Cuisine & Tamales. For more information, see the NM Index.
MILLER, MICHAEL -
director of research & literary arts at the NM Hispanic Cultural Center, former
State Historian, director of the NM Records Center & Archives, retired
director of the Center for Southwest Research at UNM, author of Monuments of
Adobe: the Religious Architecture and Traditions of New Mexico, editor of A
New Mexico Scrapbook: 23 New Mexicans Remember Growing Up, & who is
included in Enduring Cowboys: Life in the New Mexico Saddle & Forever
New Mexico: Heartfelt Images from the Land of Enchantment. He’s also included in the NM issue of Cobblestone Magazine: American History for Kids, May, 1998
MILLER, MICHELLE - former
Albuquerque, now Jemez Springs novelist, playwright, poet, novella & short
story author, winner of the NM Women's Press Association's Zia Award for Hunger
in the First Person Singular: Stories of Desire and Power, & co-editor
of Christmas Blues & The Spirit That Wants Me. She also
writes under the name, MICHELLE MILLER ALLEN
MILLER, SKIP - Taos
co-author of A Land So Remote, a 3-volume boxed set published by Red
Crane Books, which won the 2001 Ralph Emerson Twitchell
Award. The set is a comprehensive review of Spanish Colonial art & frontier
artifacts of NM. For more information, please see the NM Index.
MILLER, STEPHEN LEROY -
Albuquerque former teacher, evangelical minister & author of Journey
Into Life* & Promise of Life*, which explore self-awareness from
a Christian perspective. For more information, please see the NM Index.
MILLER, WILLIAM -
clinical psychologist, professor of psychology & psychiatry at UNM &
co-author of Quantum Change: When Epiphanies & Sudden Insights Transform
Ordinary Lives. For more information, please see the NM Index.
MILLS, JERI - former Tucson, now Ruidoso
physician, teacher, & author of Tapestry of Healing: Where Reiki &
Medicine Intertwine*. For more information, please see the NM Index.
MILLS, STEPHEN TUKEL -
Santa Fe environmental & wildlife conservation writer & co-author of Next
of Kin: What Chimpanzees Have Taught Me About Who We Are
MINGE, WARD ALAN -
collector, restorer of Casa San Ysidro, Corrales'
historic Hispanic house & historian of Acoma: Pueblo In the Sky. He
is also included in Bicentennial ‘76 - Albuquerque Remembers
MINNIS, PAUL E. - author of Social Adaptation to Food Stress: a
Prehistoric Southwestern Example & contributor to The Casas Grandes World & Short-Term
Sedentism In the American Southwest: the Mimbres
Valley Salado
MINTON,
CHARLES ETHRIGE - St. Louis, Missouri, former lawyer who moved to NM
& became State Supervisor of the Writer's Program of the Works Progress
Administration, Executive Director of the State Commission on Indian Affairs,
& Executive Secretary of the NM Association on Indian Affairs. Minton also
organized the 1st Indian Youth Council, helped establish the NM Boys Ranch
& was a philanthropist & educator.
He was the headmaster of the Santa Fe Country Day School, novelist of Juan
of Santo Nino; an Authentic Account of Pioneer Life in New Mexico 1863-1864
& author of The Spanish American Song and Game Book & New
Mexico: a Guide to the Colorful State (1940 ed.)
MIRABAL, ROBERT - Taos
flutist, composer & author of a collection of short stories: Skeleton of
a Bridge. For more information, see the NM Index.
MITCHELL, ELEANOR L. - author of A Study of an Historical Trail
Through Tijeras Canyon
MITCHELL, EMERSON BLACKHORSE - author of his memoirs about growing up Navajo in an
Anglo culture, Miracle Hill: the Story of a Navajo Boy. As a young man he attended the Institute of
American Indian Arts in Santa Fe in the 1960s
MITCHELL, JANET - Santa
Fe caterer, college instructor, teaching-chef at the Santa Fe School of
Cooking, author of Summer in Santa Fe: Garden-Fresh Menus from the City
Different & co-author of Santa Fe School of Cooking Cookbook
MITCHELL, ROSE - Navajo weaver, herbalist, midwife & author of Tall
Woman: The Life Story of Rose Mitchell, a Navajo Woman, c. 1874-1977.
For further information, please see the NM Index.
MIXON, LAURA J. - former Albuquerque, now Houston environmental
expert, author of short stories, contributor to the "mosaic" novel
series, Wild Cards; a chilling novel set in Albuquerque, when global
warming has parched the earth, but consciousness can be sent to another world: Proxies;
the suspenseful story of a colony of clone family groups terraforming a small
planet, in Burning the Ice; & co-author with her husband, STEVEN GOULD, of the excellent, environmental
thriller, Greenwar. For more information,
please see the NM Index.
MOCHO, JILL - Albuquerque
author of Murder and Justice in Frontier New Mexico, 1821-1846
MOCK,
CHARLOTTE - Albuquerque City Planner
& author of Bridges: New Mexican Black Women, 1900-1950 & contributor to History of
Hope: the African American Experience in New Mexico
MODRALL, CONSTANCE -
Albuquerque author of Courtroom Humor and a Selection of New Mexico Profiles
& editor of her husband, JAMES MODRALL’s
memoirs; she is also included in Bicentennial ‘76 - Albuquerque Remembers
MODRALL, J.R. (JAMES) -
Albuquerque lawyer, former assistant attorney general of NM & author of My
Fifty Years In New Mexico Punching Cows and Practicing Law
MOFFAT, GWEN -
Hillsboro's English-born, nature, historical fiction & mystery series
author of, among others: Buckskin Girl, Grizzly Trail, Hard
Road West: Alone on the California Trail, Last Chance Country, Rage,
Snare, Stone Hawk & Veronica’s Sisters: Miss Pink in New
Mexico
MOFFITT, JOHN F. -
professor emeritus of art history at NMSU & co-author of O Brave New
People: the European Invention of the American Indian
MOLDAW, CAROL - Pojoaque poet of Chalkmarks On Stone, The
Lightning Field & Through the Window*, National Endowment for
the Arts & a 2002 Pushcart Prize winner, wife of poet MARTIN EDMUNDS; some of her other work can be
found in Another Desert: Jewish Poetry of New Mexico, In Company: an
Anthology of New Mexico Poets After 1960 p. 396+, New Mexico Poetry
Renaissance, The Practice of Peace & Shine On You Crazy Diamond:
Poems By Teens & Their Mentors. For more information, see the NM Index.
MOLLES, MANUEL C., JR. - UNM
biology professor & author of Ecology: Concepts and Applications*.
For more information, please see the NM Index.
MOMADAY, N. SCOTT - Jemez
Pueblo-raised Kiowa-Cherokee Pulitzer-winning novelist, short story author
& poet, who lives in Jemez Springs: Ancestral Voice, Ancient
Child: a Novel, The Gourd Dancer, House Made of Dawn, In
the Bear’s House, In the Presence of the Sun: Stories and Poems;
& his memoirs: The Way to Rainy Mountain & The Names. He
is included in American Indian Literature: an Anthology, Carriers of
the Dream Wheel, Ceremony of Brotherhood, Earth Song, Sky Spirit,
Growing Up Native American, Harper’s Anthology of 20th Century Native
American Poetry, In Company: an Anthology of New Mexico Poets After 1960
p. 168+, Lightning Within, Remembered Earth, Songs From This
Earth on Turtle's Back, Stars Above, Earth Below: American Indians and
Nature, Talking Leaves: Contemporary Native American Short Stories, Turquoise
Land & Words in the Blood. For further information, see the New
Mexican Children’s Authors list & the NM Index.
MOMADAY, NATACHEE -
Cherokee teacher, author of Owl in the Cedar Tree & mother of N. SCOTT MOMADAY. For more information, see the
NM Index.
MONACELLI-JOHNSON, LINDA -
Tesuque poet of Campanile*, writer, & editor, some of whose work can
also be found in New Mexico Poetry Renaissance. For further information,
please see the NM Index.
MONDRAGÓN, ELMO - Llano
Quemado poet who is included in Another Desert: Jewish Poetry of New Mexico
& XY Files: Poems on the Male Experience
MONDRAGON, JOHN B. - a professor in the
MONDRAGÓN, ROBERTO
- lieutenant governor of NM, twice,
director of the state Agency on Aging, director of the state Housing Authority,
former legislator & 1994 Green Party candidate for governor, a well-known
Spanish-language radio personality, & is a sought-after singer & public
speaker on the topic of culture & language maintenance. He lives in a
two-room house on the family land grant in Anton Chico. His radio programs have included open-line talk
shows & cultural programs which emphasize music & other folklore. For
the past 15 years he has been involved in the development of bilingual
educational materials. These include the monthly periodical AMIGOS & various books. He’s been
the writer & host of the Aspectos Culturales educational radio program aired on the
public radio station owned by the Albuquerque Public Schools. His organization, Semos
Unlimited, co-directed by former teacher GEORGIA ROYBAL, produces ASPECTOS CULTURALES. He’s the narrator of the videorecording, Recuerdos de Los Duranes,
by Colores & the sound recordings, Juguemos, Niños? & Juguemos Otra Vez?
MONROE, MARSHALL MCLAURY -
MONROE, MITZI E. -
Albuquerque founder, director & compiler of the African-American
Contemporary Reader’s List, a reference service which lists titles &
authors, & a guide to magazines, literary Web sites & comic books. For
more information, please see the NM Index.
MONTALVO, MARGARITA -
Albuquerque Puerto Rican-born translator, illustrator & author of the
children’s collection, Zoológico de
Poemas=Poetry Zoo. For more information, please see the NM Index.
MONTANA, HUNTER & SHELKIE (pen names of NEESE, MICHAEL & SHELLIE)
Albuquerque authors of Cowboy Ties
MONTANO, MARY CAROLINE -
Albuquerque author of Tradiciones Nuevomexicanas: Hispano Arts & Culture
of New Mexico, one of the most complete overview of Hispanic folkarts since the 16th century. For more information,
please see the NM Index.
MONTEJANO, DAVID - UNM
sociology professor & author of Anglos and Mexicans in the Making of
Texas
MONTES, FERMÍN S. - Hondo
Valley Public Schools Superintendent, preserver of Hispanic folk songs &
dances, through the establishment of the Hondo Fiesta Dancers & Fiestas;
& author of Dreams Can Become a Reality
MONTEZ, MARIE A. - Santa Fe bilingual
elementary school teacher &
contributor to New Mexico:
Celebrating 400 Years of History (a single issue of Cobblestone:
American History for Kids, May, 1998)
MÓNTEZ, REY - Santa Fe art
gallery-owner, painter, sculptor, & contributor to Spanish New Mexico:
the Spanish Colonial Arts Society Collection
MONTGOMERY, JOHN -
Albuquerque teacher of art & art history at the Southwestern Indian
Polytechnic Institute, scholar of Maya hieroglyphic writing, illustrator of
pre-Columbian art & author of Tikal: an Illustrated History of the
Ancient Maya Capital*. For more information, please see the NM Index.
MONTGOMERY, JOHN L. -
archaeologist with the Agency for Conservation Archaeology at Eastern New
Mexico University & co-editor of Secrets of a City: Papers on Albuquerque Area Archaeology in
Honor of Richard A. Bice
MONTOYA, CIRIA - Casa
Colorado-born, Armijo-raised, federal government employee & author who is
included in Las Mujeres Hablan
MONTOYA, JOSE -
Escaboza-born & raised, artist & poet, art instructor at California
State University at Sacramento, who is included in Ceremony of Brotherhood
& Voces: an Anthology of Nuevo Mexicano Writers. For more
information, see Chicano Authors: Inquiry By Interview & the NM
Index
MONTOYA, LINDA - Santa Fe
artist & author who is included in Las Mujeres Hablan
MONTOYA, MALAQUIAS -
Albuquerque artist & illustrator of The Adventures of Connie and Diego =
Las Aventuras de Connie y Diego
MONTOYA, REGINA - Albuquerque
activist & author who is included in Las Mujeres Hablan
MONTOYA, TOMMY EDWARD [THAN TSAY TA] - San Juan Pueblo award-winning painter, & poet
who is included in Ceremony of Brotherhood
MONTURE, JOEL - former
professor of Traditional Native American Art at Santa Fe’s Institute of
American Indian Arts, beadwork artist & novelist of the Mohawk
coming-of-age novel, Turtle Belly
MOON,
CARL & GRACE - 1900s artist & writer of children's books, who
managed his own art & photography studio in Albuquerque, later producing
collections for the Huntington Library & the American Museum of Natural
History. For more information, please
see the New Mexican Children’s Authors bibliography & In Search of the
Wild Indian: Photographs & Life Works by Carl & Grace Moon
MOORE, CAREY - NM author
who is included in The Spirit That Wants Me
MOORE,
ELLEN K. - the curator of education at the Roswell Museum & Art Center
& author of Navajo Beadwork: Architectures of Light. Please see the NM Index for additional
information.
MOORE, LUCY - Santa Fe facilitator & mediator specializing in
public policy, environmental & cross-cultural issues, & author of her
memoirs, Into the Canyon: Seven Years in Navajo Country. She & her husband moved from Cambridge
two days after their wedding to Chinlé, where he
worked to provide legal help for Navajos who were contending with the BIA. She became a Headstart
teacher & writes about being an Anglo outsider & learning valuable
lessons from her Navajo neighbors
MOORE, MARY-MARGARET -
northern NM New Age seeker of clear awareness & author who is included in Spirit
That Wants Me
MOORE, MICHAEL - former
Silver City & Santa Fe, now Albuquerque director of the Southwest School of
Botanical Research & author of several respected works on Southwestern medicinal
herbs, including Remedios: Traditional Herbal Remedies of the Southwest,
Medicinal Plants of the Desert and Canyon West & Medicinal Plants
of the Mountain West. For more information, please see the NM Index.
MOORE, RICHARD D. - NM
former professor of biophysics at the State University of New York at
Plattsburgh, a visiting professor at the University of Vermont's medical
school, a fellow of the American College of Nutrition, & has been active in
the field of biomedical research for over 30 years. He is also the author of The
K Factor: Reversing & Preventing High Blood Pressure Without Drugs
MOORE, SABRA - Northern
NM artist & author of Petroglyphs: Ancient Language, Sacred Art. For
more information, please see the NM Index.
MOORE,
SALLY - Buffalo, NY-born,
Albuquerque travel & food writer & photographer of Country Roads of
New Mexico: Drives, Day Trips, & Weekend Excursions & Culinary
New Mexico: the Ultimate Food Lover's Guide
MOORE, TODD - Albuquerque
poet of Dillinger*, The Man in the Black Chevrolet*,
Billie F.*, & Watching*
MOR, BARBARA - New Mexico
poet of Winter Ditch & Other Poems, included in Sisters of the
Earth, p. 296+, & co-author of The Great Cosmic Mother:
Rediscovering the Religion of the Earth
MORA, PAT - Santa Fe 1994
NEA Literature Fellow, poet & essayist of Aunt Carmen’s Book of
Practical Saints, House of Houses, My Own True Name & Nepantla: Essays From the Land In the Middle.
She is also included in Chicana Ways: Conversations with Ten Chicana Writers,
Daughters of the Fifth Sun, Floating Borderlands, Floricanto Sí, Getting Over the Color
Green: Contemporary Environmental Literature of the Southwest, It’s All
in the Frijoles, Multicultural Southwest: a Reader, Noche Buena:
Hispanic American Christmas Stories p. 108+, Paper Dance: 55 Latino
Poets, Sisters of the Earth, p. 181+ & Unsettling America.
For more information on her, see the NM Index & the New Mexican Children’s
Author list.
MORAIN, STANLEY A. - UNM
chairman of the Department of Geography & contributor to New Mexico in Maps
MORELL, MARY -
Albuquerque former co-owner of the feminist bookstore, Full Circle Books
& author of two excellent mysteries, Final Rest & Final
Session, set in San Antonio, TX, starring Lucia Ramos, police officer
MORGAN, HOWARD -
long-time Albuquerque TV weatherman, gardening expert, author of Howard
Morgan’s Even More from Gardenlore, Howard
Morgan’s Gardenlore & Howard Morgan’s More
from Gardenlore
MORGAN, MICHAEL HAMILTON
- Santa Fe author of Collision With Hisstory: the Search for John F. Kennedy's
PT 109, Graveyards of the Pacific: From Pearl Harbor to Bikini Island
& novelist of The Twilight War. For further information, please see
the NM Index.
MORGAN,
PHYLLIS S. - an
information specialist, research analyst, reference librarian, educator &
author of Marc Simmons of New Mexico: Maverick Historian & co-author
of A Sense of Place: Rudolfo A. Anaya: an Annotated Bio-Bibliography. For further information, please see the NM
Index.
MORGAN, WILLIAM - Gallup area-born linguist, educator & author
who is best known for coauthoring with ROBERT W. YOUNG, the monumental Analytical
Lexicon of Navajo & translator of JACK CROWDER’s bilingual Navajo folk
story, Stephannie & the Coyote
MORGEN, SHARON DREW -
Taos author of Sales on the Line*
MORLEY, SYLVANUS GRISWOLD -
author, archaeologist & member of the School of American Archaeology, most
well-known for his study of the Ancient Maya. For further information,
please see the NM Index.
MORRELL, DAVID - Santa Fe's
author of best-selling, high-action thrillers such as Brotherhood of the
Rose, Covenant of the Flame, Extreme Denial (set partially in
Santa Fe), Fifth Profession, First Blood (the movie Rambo
was based on it), Fraternity of the Stone, Long Lost, The Protector,
Totem; a short story collection, Black Evening & he is
included in 999: New Stories of Horror and Suspense. He’s also written Lessons from a Lifetime
of Writing. For more information,
please see the NM Index.
MORRIS, DAVID -
Albuquerque former university professor of 18th century British literature,
& author of Culture of Pain* & Earth Warrior*
MORRIS, EARL - NM 1920s
archaeologist of the Aztec Ruins & author of House of the Great Kiva at the Aztec Ruin. For further information, please
see the NM Index.
MORRIS, IRVIN - Navajo
teacher of Native American Studies & Literature at the State University of
New York - Buffalo, novelist of From the Glittering World & author
who is included in Neon Pow-Wow
MORRIS, JAMES A. -
author of Oku Pin, the Sandia Mountains of New Mexico
MORRIS, LARRY - minister
of Albuquerque's Hillside Community church, philosophy author & poet
MORRIS, MARY - Santa Fe
poet who is included in XY Files: Poems on the Male Experience
MORRIS, RICHARD - former
Albuquerque poet, physicist & popular science author of Dismantling the
Universe: the Nature of Scientific Discovery, Light, The Nature
of Reality & Time’s Arrows: Scientific Attitudes Toward Time.
For more information, see the NM Index.
MORRIS, ROGER - Santa Fe
author of histories, biographies & Guggenheim Fellow. He was a finalist for
the National Book Award & the National Book Critics Circle Award, for his Richard
Milhous Nixon; he is also the author of Devil’s Butcher Shop: the New
Mexico Prison Uprising, Haig, the
General's Progress, Partners In Power: the Clintons and Their America
& Uncertain Greatness: Henry Kissinger and American Foreign Policy;
& co-author of The Money and the Power: the Making of Las Vegas and Its
Hold on America, 1947-2000
MORROW, BAKER H. -
Albuquerque landscape architect, adjunct associate professor at UNM’s School of
Architecture and Planning; author of A Dictionary of Landscape Architecture,
Best Plants for New Mexico Gardens and Landscapes; fiction author of Horses
Like the Wind & Other Stories of Africa, translator & editor of Harvest
of Reluctant Souls: the Memorial of Fray Alonso de Benavides, 1630 &
co-editor of Anasazi Architecture and American Design. For more
information, see the NM Index.
MORROW, CLIFF - local author
of Cold Boiled Potatoes and Buttermilk, a book of Ohio family
reminiscences
MORROW, HUGH -
Albuquerque author of the paperback, Black Madonna*. For further
information, please see DYER, ROBERT
MORSE, ARTHUR L. - Los
Alamos physicist & author of Understanding Reality, The Past...The
Present...The Future*
MOSCRIP, CAROL - NM poet
& author who is included in The Spirit That Wants Me
MOTTER, CHARLOTT LOUISE -
Rio Rancho author of Poca & Star, Sky, Alexandra and Majesty*
about her many pets, & Reiki? A Healing Art? Yes!*
MOTTO, SYTHA -
Albuquerque author of early NM local histories, including Madrid and
Christmas in New Mexico, Old Houses of New Mexico and the People Who
Built Them; poet who is included in Earth Chant, Sandscript
p. 24 & Turquoise Land; & she is also included in Bicentennial
‘76 - Albuquerque Remembers. For more information, see the NM Index.
MOWREY, JOSEPH - Santa Fe
owner of Mariposa Printing & Publishing, editor & poet of Winter
Moon; he is also included in Written With a Spoon: a Poet’s Cookbook
& XY Files: Poems on the Male Experience. For more information,
please see the NM Index.
MOYERS, WILLIAM - Albuquerque painter & sculptor who illustrated Florence Hayes’ Chee and His Pony: the
Story of a Navajo Boy & George Cory Franklin’s Wild
Horses of the Rio Grande. For further information, please see the NM
Index.
MUENCH, DAVID - Corrales photographer of Anasazi: Ancient
People of the Rock, Ancient America, Arizona, Colorado,
David Muench's Arizona: Cherish the Land, Walk in
Beauty, Eternal Desert, Images in Stone, National Parks of
America, New Mexico, New Mexico II, Plateau Light, Sacred
Lands of Indian America & Windstone:
Natural Arches, Bridges, & Other Openings. For more information,
please see the NM Index.
MUIR, JOHN - Santa Fe
author of How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive & founder of John Muir
Publications. For more information, see the NM Index.
MULCAHY,
LUCILLE - Albuquerque Public Library assistant procurement
officer & novelist of Natoto, a love story set in Chaco Canyon. For more information, please see the New
Mexican Children’s Authors bibliography & the NM Index.
MULDROW,
ELIZABETH - Santa Fe ordained Presbyterian clergywoman,
she has designed bi-lingual curricula for remote tribal schools & is the author of Marmalade: Stories:
as a Basket of Oranges Picked at Random to Be Peeled, Boiled Tasted... *,
short stories based on her travels
MULERT, TERRY - Española
teacher of creative writing & English at Northern NM Community College,
wood sculptor & poet of Facing Chalk*
MULLANE, MIKE -
Albuquerque astronaut & the science fiction novelist of Red Sky: a Novel
of Love, Space and War. For more information, see the NM Index.
MULLER, FREDERICK, R. -
Taos chef, owner of Fred’s Place, in Taos & author of La Comída: the Foods,
Cooking and Traditions of the Upper Rio Grande
MUNZENRIDER, STEVEN -
Santa Fe teacher, co-founder of the Little Earth School & co-author of Little
Earth School: Education, Discovery, Celebration
MURAKAMI, MARIKO - Los
Alamos co-author of the ballet "Winter War". For more information,
see the NM Index.
MURAKAMI-HOUCK, CORY-JEANNE - Los Alamos co-author of the ballet "Winter War". For more
information, see NM Index.
MURPHY, BARBARA - Santa
Fe former actress & award
winning author of Fly Like an Eagle (in which Ace Hobart learns
that he is the grandson of a San Ildefonso Pueblo man), & co-author with JUDIE WOLKOFF, of Ace Hits Rock Bottom*
& Ace Hits the Big Time; & author of the nonfiction book, Thor
Heyerdahl and the Reed Boat Ra. She
also has a new series which explores, in stories, the wonderful museums of NM,
called Museo Kids: Miguel Lost & Found in the Palace & Life!
How I Love You! (about Frida Kahlo). For further information, please see the NM
Index.
MURPHY, BERT (BERTRAM H.) -
MURPHY, DAN - Santa Fe
former teacher, state policeman, archaeologist, editor for the National Park
Service & author of several books on El Morro National Monument, Guadalupes,
Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument & New Mexico, the
Distant Land
MURPHY, ROSALEA - owner
of Santa Fe's Pink Adobe Restaurant & the cookbook author of Pink
Adobe Cookbook & In the Pink. For more information, see the NM
Index.
MURPHY, SEAN W. - Ranchos de Taos
grand-prize winner of the 1999 Ernest Hemingway First Novel Contest for his
novel, The Hope Valley Hubcap King & novelist of The Finished Man,
set in Hollywood & The Time of New Weather (the sequel to The
Hope Valley Hubcap King). He’s the
editor of One Bird, One Stone: 108 American Zen Stories & a creative
writing, film & literature professor at UNM-Taos & UNM-Española. For more information, please see the NM
Index.
MURRAY, R. RICHARD -
State of NM Director of Improved Pregnancy Outcome Project & contributor to
New Mexico in Maps
MURRAY, STEVEN T. - Albuquerque National Endowment for the Arts
fellowship winning translator of Detective Inspector Huss
by Helene Tursten, Faceless Killers: a Mystery
by Henning Mankell, The Fifth Woman by Henning
Mankell & Sidetracked: a Kurt Wallander Mystery by Henning Mankell.
He owned & operated the small Fjord Press & now owns Oso Press. He is married to TIINA NUNNALLY.
Please see the NM Index for further information.
MURRAY,
TY - Peña Blanca bull rider,
National Rodeo Champion & author of his autobiography, King of the
Cowboys
MUTH, MARCIA - Santa Fe artist, co-founder of Sunstone Press, poet
& author of How to Collect and Write Local History, How to Paint
and Sell Your Art, Kachinas: a Selected Bibliography, Sticks and
Stones and Other Poems, Words & Images* & Writing and
Selling Poetry, Fiction, Articles, Plays and Local History. For further
information, please see MILLER, MARCIA MUTH
MYERS, DWIGHT & CAROL -
Albuquerque founders of New Mexico Book League, Book Talk magazine,
authors & editors of In Celebration of the Book & Literary
New Mexico. For more information, please see the NM Index.
MYERS, J. JAY - retired
Santa Fe teacher, photographer, nonfiction author & novelist of the western
mystery: Altered Brand
MYERS, JOAN - author
& photographer of Along the Santa Fe Trail, Pie Town Woman: the
Hard Life & Good Times of a New Mexico Homesteader, Santiago: Saint
of Two Worlds, & who is included in Essential Landscape: the New Mexico
Photographic Survey. For more information, see the NM Index.
NABOKOV, PETER - northern
NM journalist, & Native American historian of Architecture of Acoma
Pueblo, Indian Running, Native American Architecture & Tijerina and the Courthouse Raid
NAGATANI, PATRICK -
Albuquerque photographer, UNM professor & author included in Through
Children’s Eyes: 100 Young Photographers Capture Their Community &
author of Nuclear Enchantment. For more information, please see the NM
Index.
NAGLE, PATI (P.G.)
- Los Alamos-born, now Albuquerque
writer of her Far Western Civil War series of novels which include Glorieta
Pass, The Guns of Valverde, Galveston, and the forthcoming Red
River*. She is also the author of science fiction short stories, included
in An Armory of Swords, The Blue & the Gray Undercover, Lord of the Fantastic: Stories in Honor of Roger
Zelazny & The Williamson Effect. For more information, please
see the NM Index.
NAHOHAI, MILFORD - Zuni
potter, author of Dialogues With Zuni Potters & co-author of Zuni:
a Village of Silversmiths
NAKAI, R. CARLOS -
world-renowned Navajo-Ute flute player & author of The Art of the Native
American Flute. For more information, see the NM Index.
NARANJO, MICHAEL A. -
Santa Clara Pueblo, Vietnam-blinded bronze artist, who is included in Ceremony
of Brotherhood
NARANJO-MORSE, NORA -
Santa Clara Pueblo-born, now Española, potter, poet of Mud Woman: Poems From
the Clay & sister of RINA SWENTZELL.
For more information, see: Ceremony of Brotherhood, New Mexico Poetry
Renaissance, Reinventing the Enemy’s Language & the NM
Index
NASH, GERALD D. - UNM
professor & author of The American West in the Twentieth Century, American
West Transformed, Creating the West, Researching Western History,
& The Twentieth Century West: Historical Interpretations
NASON, THELMA -
Albuquerque author of books on early New Mexican history: No Golden Cities
& Under the Wide Sky: Tales of New Mexico and the Spanish Southwest.
For more information, see the NM Index.
NATONI, JEAN - Navajo
poet, born in Rehobeth, included in Remembered
Earth: an Anthology of Contemporary Native American Literature
NAVA,
MARGARET M. - NM author of Along the High Road: a Guide to the Scenic
Route Between Espanola & Taos, New Mexico, a glimpse into the lives,
beliefs, & arts of people along the High Road, & offers suggestions for
travelers willing to take enough time to discover the beauty & mysteries
hidden in these small towns. Please see
the NM Index for further information.
NAYLOR, JAMES - eastern
NM raised, now Los Lunas botanist, ecological project manager & author of
his memoir, Lions, Military Junta, Hyenas, Wildfires & Nomad: Working in
the Developing World* For more information, please see the NM Index.
NEAL, DOROTHY JENSEN - NM
author of Captive Mountain Waters & Cloud-Climbing Railroad.
For more information, see the NM Index.
NEALSON, CHRISTINA - Taos
essayist, contributing editor of the Horse Fly, wife of TOM WOLF, & author of Living On the
Spine: a Woman's Life in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains & New
Mexico's Sanctuaries, Retreats, and Sacred Places
NEARY, NANCY -
Albuquerque former high-school English teacher & co-author of New
Mexico: a New Guide to the Colorful State
NEATHERLIN,
MAY - author of an autobiographical novel, House of
the Rancher*, set in the Sacramento Mountains in the 1930s, & If
Cows Could Talk*, also set in NM
NEESE, MICHAEL & SHELLIE see MONTANA, HUNTER & SHELKIE
NELSON, ANTONYA - Las Cruces’
NMSU professor, winner of the O. Henry Prize, The Flannery O'Connor, PEN/Nelson
Algren & Heartland awards, named by The New
Yorker as one of the 20 best writers of the 21st century, novelist of
funny, very well-written books, set in southern NM: Living to Tell, Nobody's
Girl, Talking In Bed & short story author of The Expendables:
Stories, Family Terrorists, Female Trouble, & In the
Land of Men: Stories. She is married to novelist ROBERT BOSWELL.
NELSON, BEN A. - Arizona State University
professor, who conducts research in Mesoamerica & has a long-standing
involvement in the prehistory of the American Southwest. He’s investigated the
social organization & adaptive strategies of the Salado
of southwestern New Mexico & is the co-author of Short-Term Sedentism In the American Southwest : the Mimbres Valley Salado & co-editor of The Star Lake
Archaeological Project: Anthropology of a Headwaters Area of Chaco Wash, New
Mexico. He’s also a contributor to Understanding Complexity in the Prehistoric Southwest
NELSON, DREW - newspaper
& magazine journalist, advertising copywriter, author of the children's
novel: Wild Voices, & husband of VAUNDA
NELSON
NELSON, MARY CARROLL -
Albuquerque artist & prolific author of excellent books on Southwestern
& Western artists; including Artists of the Spirit: in Art and Mysticism,
Egg Tempera Landscapes of Doris Steider: a Vision
of Silence, Legendary Artists of Taos, & Masters of Western
Art. She is also included in The Spirit That Wants Me &
co-edited The Art of Layering: Making Connections. For information on
her children’s titles, see the New Mexican Children’s Authors list.
NELSON, SANDIE - Choctaw
poet, living in Farmington, who is included in Remembered Earth: an
Anthology of Contemporary Native American Literature
NELSON, SARAH - Los Lunas
poet of Grandpa’s Scrapbook*
NELSON, VAUNDA MICHEAUX -
Children's Librarian at the Rio Rancho Public Library, winner of the 1994 Econo-Clad Award for an Outstanding Reading or Literature
Program for Children, author of several children's books, including Almost
to Freedom (named as one of the Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor
Books), Always Gramma, Beyond Mayfield,
Mayfield Crossing, Possibles & Ready?
Set. Raymond!. She has also served on the Newbery Selection
Committee. For further information, see the NM Index.
NESBIT, KAREN STRAIT -
Sandia Park author of Home On the Rage, a young adult novel of a young
girl struggling in a house of emotionally vacant parents. Corky's
strong voice & persistence enable her to find a home where she can safely
grow up. For more information, please see the NM Index.
NESTOR, SARAH - co-author
of Artists of the Canyons and Caminos
NEWCOMB, CHARLES - former
trader to the Navajos, who retired to Scottsdale, & novelist of the Navajo
novel Throw His Saddle Out & nonfiction author of The Smoke Hole,
about life on the Navajo Reservation
NEWCOMB, FRANC JOHNSON -
anthropologist, teacher, trading post owner, collector of Navaho Folk Tales,
biographer of Hosteen Klah, Navaho Medicine
Man and Sand Painter, & author of Navaho Folk Tales, Navaho
Neighbors & Sandpaintings of the Navajo Shooting Chant. She was also a contributor to Beautyway: a Navaho Ceremonial. Biographical information on her can be found
in the NM Index.
NEWELL, ANN - former
Tularosa, now Albuquerque haiku poet who is included in The Practice of
Peace & XY Files: Poems on the Male Experience & poet
collected in Mount Gasson's Slope*. For more
information, please see the NM Index.
NEWHALL, BEAUMONT - world-renowned
photographer, photographic historian, UNM professor, founder of the Museum of
Modern Art’s Department of Photography, & a northern NM Living Treasure,
whose autobiography was Focus. For more information, please see the NM
Index.
NEWHALL, NANCY -
Albuquerque & Santa Fe photographer & wife of BEAUMONT, co-editor of Masters of
Photography, author of From Adams to Stieglitz:
Pioneers of Modern Photography & who is included in Sisters of the
Earth, p. 328+. For more information, please see the NM Index.
NEWMAN,
GWILL YORK - Cleveland, Ohio-born,
she’s been a trustee of 25 nonprofit organizations in education, health, the
arts, equal rights, civic affairs, social services, gardens & urban
development. She co-founded the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia
& Depression & president & then chairman of the Brain Research
Foundation of the University of Chicago.
She’s now the NM author of Bingo
Bear Was Here: a Toy Bear's Climb to the Top of Africa's Highest
Mountain*, a children’s story she’d written many years ago for her own
children
NEWMANN, DANA - former
NEWMAN, PHOEBE DIANE -
Alaskan, formerly northern NM poet, teacher, short fiction writer & author
who is included in The Spirit That Wants Me & Written With a Spoon:
a Poet’s Cookbook p. 32+
NEZ, REDWING T. - Navajo
award-winning, self-taught artist & author of the beautiful picture book: Forbidden
Talent
NICHOL, JEFF -
Albuquerque veterinarian, columnist for the Albuquerque Journal, &
author of Is My Cat Ok?: How to Know... When Your Cat Won't Say & Is
My Dog OK?: How to Know... When Your Dog Won't Say & A Lifetime
Guide to Practical Pet Care: Better Health & Happier Homes For Dogs And
Cats. For more information, please see the NM Index.
NICHOLL,
EDITH M. - early novelist of The Human Touch; a Tale of the
Great Southwest*, which is set primarily in NM & Observations of a Ranchwoman in New Mexico
NICHOLS, JOHN - Taos
environmentalist, photographer, screenwriter & nonfiction author of many
titles, including Dancing On the Stones: Selected Essays; & novelist
of many titles, probably the most famous of which is The Milagro Beanfield War. His autobiography is An American
Child Supreme: the Education of a Liberation Ecologist. He is also included
in Getting Over the Color Green: Contemporary Environmental Literature of
the Southwest, Tierra: Contem-porary Short Fiction of New Mexico
& Voices From the Rio Grande. For more information on his novels,
please see the NM Fiction bibliography, & for further information, see the
NM Index.
NICKELL, JUDY - former Albuquerque
Tribune columnist, reporter & author of Enchanted Gardening:
Gardening in the Land of Enchantment
NIEDERMAN,
SHARON - Albuquerque author of Hellish
Relish: Sizzling Salsas & Devilish Dips From the Kitchens of New Mexico;
co-author of Living Treasures: Celebration of the Human Spirit: a Legacy of
New Mexico, The Santa Fe & Taos Book: a Complete Guide;
co-editor of New Mexico Poetry Renaissance, Tarasque I & Tarasque
II; compiler of A Quilt of Words: Women's Diaries, Letters &
Original Accounts of Life in the Southwest, 1860-1960 & novelist of Return
to Abo. For further information,
please see the NM Index & New Mexican Fiction.
NIELL, LEOLA AUSTIN - Estancia-born,
now Edgewood romance novelist of To Dance With a Dream Catcher
NIEMEYER, LUCIAN -
internationally known Santa Fe photographer & co-author of New Mexico:
Images of a Land and its People
NIETO-PHILLIPS,
JOHN M. - native New Mexican,
formerly of NMSU, now, associate professor of history & Latino studies at
Indiana University, Bloomington, received a National Endowment for the
Humanities Faculty Research Award to complete his study of The Language of
Blood: the Making of Spanish-American Identity in New Mexico, 1880s-1930s,
which won the History Society of NM’s Gaspar Perez de Villagrá
Award for 2004. He’s also a contributor
to The Contested Homeland, a Chicano History of New Mexico. For further information, please see the NM
Index.
NIGHT, CORVUS - Santa Fe
author of The Experiment, an Exploration of Perception & Focus, a Primer*
For more information, please see the NM Index.
NILES, KATE FULLER -
Albuquerque poet & author of Geographies of the Heart*
NIZALOWSKI, JOHN - former
NOBIS, DOROTHY -
executive director of the Bloomfield Chamber of Commerce & author of Insiders'
Guide to the Four Corners* For more information, please see the NM Index.
NOBLE, DAVID GRANT -
former director of public information at the Santa Fe School of American
Research, fine art photographer, & author/editor of many excellent books on
Southwestern history & archaeology: Ancient Ruins of the Southwest, In
Search of Chaco: New Approaches to an Archaeological Enigma, New Light
on Chaco Canyon, Pecos Ruins, Pueblos, Villages, Forts and Trails,
& Salinas
NOE, SALLY - Gallup
historian & author of Greetings From Gallup: Six Decades of Route 66
NOGGLE, ANNE - former UNM
professor, Albuquerque photographer, recipient of three National Endowment for
the Arts Fellowship Grants & a Guggenheim Fellowship; author of Dance
With Death: Soviet Airwomen in World War II, Silver Lining; &
who is included in Essential Landscape: the New Mexico Photographic Survey.
For more information, see the NM Index.
NOHL, MARK - Santa Fe
author of Photographs of New Mexico & photographer of The Allure
of Turquoise, Backtracks, Quiz of Enchantment, Retirement
New Mexico & The Santa Fe Indian Market
NOLAN, FREDERICK -
English expert on the Lincoln County War, author of Bad Blood: the Life and
Times of the Horrell Brothers, The Lincoln
County War: a Documentary History, The West of Billy the Kid, &
editor of The Life and Death of John Henry Tunstall.
More information on him can be found in the NM Index.
NORDHAUS, JEAN -
Baltimore-born, now Washington, D.C. poet who lives often in NM & who’s
included in Another Desert: Jewish Poetry of New Mexico
NORDHAUS, ROBERT J. -
retired Albuquerque attorney & author of Tipi Rings: a Chronicle of the
Jicarilla Apache Land Claim
NORIEGA, JOE - NMSU
research assistant for the Department of Agricultural Economics and Business
& contributor to New Mexico in Maps
NORTHROP, STUART A. -
former chairman of UNM’s Dept. Of Geology (1929-1961) & author of the
standard text on the Minerals of New Mexico & co-author of Geology
of Sandia Mountains & Vicinity.
NORWOOD, VERA - UNM
American Studies professor, author of Made From This Earth, on women's
place in environmental history, co-editor of Desert Is No Lady & is
included in New Mexico Women: Intercultural Perspectives
NOSS, MARTHA - employee
of the School of American Research & author who is included in Fly-Fishing
in Northern New Mexico
NOTT, ROBERT - Santa
Fe-based journalist & author of He Ran All the Way: the Life of John
Garfield. For further
information, please see the NM Index.
NOYER, ALBERT - East
Mountain professional artist, illustrator of Mountain and High Plains
Gardening, teacher, art historian & novelist of the Roman mysteries, Cybelene Conspiracy, Saint’s Day Deaths
& The Secundus Papyrus
NOYES, STANLEY - Santa Fe
poet, Native American historian, for 13 years the literary arts coordinator for
the NM Arts Division & author of Beyond the Mountains & Los
Comanches, the Horse People. He is also included in In
Company: an Anthology of New Mexico Poets After 1960 p. 354+, Turquoise
Land & Voices From the Rio Grande. For more information, see the NM Index &
NM Fiction bibliography.
NUGENT, JOHN F. - Albuquerque professional photographer & contributor to Albuquerque:
Blazing New Trails
NUNN, TEY MARIANNA - a
native New Mexican, curator of contemporary Hispano & Latino collections at
the Museum of International Folk Art in Santa Fe & author of Sin Nombre:
Hispana & Hispano Artists of the New Deal Era. For more information,
please see the NM Index.
NUNNALLY, TIINA - Albuquerque National Endowment for the Arts
fellowship winning translator of Before You Sleep by Linn Ullmann, The Royal Physicians Visit by Per Olov Enquist & The Unknown
Sigrid Undset: Jenny & Other Works by Sigrid Undset. She’s also the mystery author of Fate of
Ravens: a Margit Andersson
Mystery & Runemaker: a Margit Andersson Mystery.
She is married to STEVEN T. MURRAY.
Please see the NM Index for further information.
NUNNERY, FRANCES MINERVA - Albuquerque chauffeur, bus driver, boarding house
keeper, night club singer, rancher, deputy sheriff, & real estate agent who
told her story to CECIL DAWKINS, in A Woman of the Century,
Frances Minerva Nunnery (1898-1997): Her Story in Her Own Memorable Voice
NUSBAUM, AILEEN - Las
Vegas-born author & illustrator of Old Spain in Our Southwest by NINA OTERO
NUSBAUM, JESSE L. -
supervisor of the building of the Museum of NM's Fine Arts Museum, excavator
& restorer of the Pecos Mission, 1st director of the Laboratory of
Anthropology & author of Tierra Dulce: Reminiscences From the Jesse Nusbaum Papers. For more information on him, please see
the NM Index
NUSOM, LYNN - Hillsboro chef, author of a weekly food column,
& author of many Southwestern cookbooks, including Billy the Kid
Cook-Book, Recipes and Folklore from Billy the Kid Country, Christmas In
New Mexico, Cooking In the Land of Enchantment, Crazy for
Chipotle*, New Mexico Cook Book & the Sizzling Southwestern
Cookbook. For more information on him, please see the NM Index.
NYE, JIM - Albuquerque
lawyer, poet, & essayist
NYE,
NELSON C. - former NM cowpuncher, winner of two Spur Awards,
from the Western Writers of America, & the Golden Saddleman Award, for
outstanding contributions to the history & legend of the American West;
& acclaimed western novelist of Bandido*,
set in Tucumcari, A Bullet for Billy the Kid (originally published as Pistols
for Hire*), Gunfighter Breed*, set in Tucumcari, Mule Man,
set in Chaco Canyon & The Overlanders*
NYMEYER, ROBERT - Lea
County photographer & author of Carlsbad, Caves, and a Camera
OANDASAN, WILLIAM - Santa
Fe Yuki poet, journalist, editor & author of Round Valley Songs. He
is also included in Ceremony of Brotherhood, Harper’s Anthology of
20th Century Native American Poetry, Remembered Earth, Sandscript
p. 23 & Songs From This Earth on Turtle's Back. For more
information, see the NM Index.
O’BRIEN, LINCOLN - former
owner of the Las Vegas Optic, the Tucumcari Daily News, the Los
Alamos Herald, the Gallup Independent, the Artesia Daily Press,
owner of the Farmington Daily Times & author of An Unimportant
Book: the Story of My Life
O’BRIEN, M.K. - Taos
author of Handbook for Poets*, Legend of Cherokee Clark* &
who is included in Spirit That Wants Me
O'BRIEN, MARGARET -
Albuquerque illustrator of a natural history book, Nature Notes*
O’CONNOR, CLAIBORNE -
Albuquerque graphic designer, calligrapher, illustrator & contributor to Christmas
Blues. For information on his children’s title, please see the New Mexican
Children’s Authors list.
O'CONNOR, KATHRYN KENNEDY -
co-founder & 1st director of the Albuquerque Little Theatre, & author
of Theatre in the Cow Country, about those experiences
ODER, BARRON -
Albuquerque contract historian for the US Air Force Phillips Laboratory &
who is included in Essays in Twentieth-Century New Mexico History
OFFUTT, CHRIS - former
Albuquerque winner of a NEA Fellowship, an award from the American Academy of
Arts & Letters & a Guggenheim Fellowship; a guest instructor at UNM’s
English Department, author of his memoirs: Same River Twice, novelist of
Good Brother, Kentucky Straight, short story author of Out of
the Woods, & who was named one of Granta
Magazine’s Best Young American Novelists. For more information, see the NM
Index.
OGELSBY, JILL -
Albuquerque-born author who teaches at NM Tech, lives in Los Lunas & is
included in Southwestern Women: New Voices
O’HANLON, BILL (WILLIAM HUDSON) - Santa Fe licensed mental health professional, certified professional
counselor, licensed marriage & family therapist & has taught nearly a
thousand seminars worldwide on psychotherapy, spirituality, &
relationships. He is the author of Do
One Thing Different: & Other Uncommonly Simple Solutions to Life's
Persistent Problems, Love Is a Verb: How to Stop Analyzing Your
Relationship & Start Making It Great, Solution-Oriented Hypnosis: an
Ericksonian Approach, Stop Blaming, Start
Loving!: a Solution-Oriented Approach to Improving Your Relationship, Thriving
Through Crisis: Turn Tragedy & Trauma Into Growth & Change*, & Try
& Make Me!: Simple Strategies That Turn Off the Tantrums & Create
Cooperation. Please see the NM Index
for further information.
OHLIN, ALIX - former Albuquerque
resident, teacher at Lafayette College, & novelist of a smart &
entertaining debut, The Missing Person, set in Albuquerque
OISHI, MARY - an underwriting
marketing specialist at KUNM, since 1999 she’s frequently a guest-host, poet, activist,
conducts workshops, is included in Albuzerxque, Volume 16 (2003), a CD collection of
Albuquerque writers & musicians; has published a chapbook, Naked Without
Shame & has an upcoming book & CD, Kiss the World Awake,
which will be half poetry & half journal, to encourage readers to use their
own poetic voice. For further
information, please see the NM Index
OKAMOTO, SHIHO - Japanese
American poet imprisoned during WWII at the Santa Fe & Lordsburg Justice
Department Camps, some of whose haiku can be can be found in May Sky: There
Is Always Tomorrow p. 96
O’KEEFFE, GEORGIA - Abiquiu’s world-renowned painter & author of, among
other titles, Georgia O’Keeffe, Georgia O’Keeffe: One Hundred Flowers,
Georgia O’Keeffe, Works On Paper & contributor to Southwest
Stories: Tales From the Desert. For further information, see the NM Index.
OKUNOR,
SHIAME - contributor to History
of Hope: the African American Experience in New Mexico
O’LEARY, BETH LAURA -
NMSU archaeologist & author who is included in Secrets of a City: Papers on Albuquerque Area Archaeology in
Honor of Richard A. Bice & Walking
the Twilight II
OLIPHANT, B.J. - Santa Fe
author of the Shirley McClintock, Santa Fe investigator mystery series: Ceremonial
Death, Dead in the Scrub, Death and the Delinquent, Death
Served Up Cold, Deservedly Dead & Here’s to the Newly Dead.
She uses the name A.J. ORDE for her
other mystery series. Her popular science fiction books are listed under: SHERI S. TEPPER. For further information,
please check the NM Index.
OLIVER, JIM - Santa Fe
musician, Emmy-winning composer, co-founder of Synphonics,
a process using sound to promote healing, & author who is included in The
Spirit That Wants Me
OLIVERA, F. CHRISTOPHER -
Santa Fe writer & contributor to Spanish New Mexico: the Spanish
Colonial Arts Society Collection
OLONIA, JOSEPH M. -
Albuquerque author included in Voces: an Anthology of Nuevo Mexicano Writers
OLSEN, KENNETH H. - Los
Alamos Scientific Laboratory Geosciences Division employee & contributor to
New Mexico in Maps
OLSEN, MICHAEL - NM
Highlands' history & political science professor, & co-author of New
Mexico Government and Politics
OLSEN,
NANCY H. - NM co-author of The
Albuquerque Archaeological Society's First Twenty-Five Years, 1966-1991
& & contributor to The First 100 Years: Papers in Honor of the State
& Local Archaeological Societies of New Mexico
OLSON,
KEITH G. - author of a book about
Albuquerque’s own artist, The Art of Steve Hanks: Poised Between Heartbeats
OLSON, MARIAN - Santa Fe
cookbook author, poet, photographer & teacher who is included in Written
With a Spoon: a Poet’s Cookbook p. 20+ & p. 34+
O’MARA, PEGGY - Santa Fe
author of Mothering Magazine's Having a Baby, Naturally: the Mothering
Magazine Guide to Pregnancy & Childbirth, & editor of Schooling
at Home: Parents, Kids, & Learning & Vaccinations: the Rest of
the Story: a Selection of Articles, Letters, & Resources, 1979-1992.
For further information, please see the NM Index.
OMELIA, JOHANNA - Santa
Fe writer & photographer, has served as editor-in-chief of several art
& beauty magazines, & co-authored Summer in Santa Fe: Garden-Fresh
Menus from the City Different
ONLEY, GLEN -
Texas former information technology executive, who enjoys the tranquility of
the Pecos Wilderness, where his novel, Beyond Contentment, a
contemporary adventure/survival novel, is set. His Discovery Tree is a
historical novel, involving E'Town, the gold rush,
Lucien Maxwell, the Colfax County War, Frank Springer, Clay Allison, & the
Santa Fe Ring. He’s also written Sunset: a Historical Western Novel*
set in Indian Territory, involving Vicente Silva in Horsethief
Meadow, & the Sangre de Cristo Mountains west of Cimarron
OOSAHWE, LINDA RELACION -
Hawaii-raised NM author who is included in Spirit That Wants Me
OPASIK, SUSAN - former NM
poetry/slide performer & author who is included in The Spirit That Wants
Me
OPPENHEIMER,
ALAN J. - author of The
Historical Background of Albuquerque, New Mexico
OPLER, MORRIS EDWARD -
1930's era ethnologist who collected the Myths and Tales of the Chiricahua
Apache Indians
ORCUTT, JANET DALE - archaeologist for the
National Park Service in Santa Fe, co-editor of The Bandelier Archeological
Survey & From Folsom to Fogelson: the Cultural
Resources Inventory Survey of Pecos National Historical Park
ORDE, A.J. - Santa Fe
author of the Denver antique dealer, Jason Lynx mystery: A Death of
Innocents (others in the series are only in paperback). She uses the name B.J. OLIPHANT for her other mysteries, set in
Colorado & NM. Her popular science fiction books are found under: SHERI S. TEPPER
ORELL, LINDA H. -
Albuquerque parenting expert & co-author of Children and Their Families
in New Mexico
ORGANICK, AVRUM -
former Albuquerque, now Tsaile, AZ physician &
autobiographical novelist of his life with his Navajo wife & children, in Blessings
& A Scandal in Yvonsk and Other Stories*,
a series of stories which begins in Yvonsk, a small
Polish town at the turn of the last century, & sweeps forward in time &
place from NYC into the American West. From the first, the Jewish experience
& the Jewish consciousness of the writer emerge. Yet the writer's sensitivity to & love of
the larger world, his interaction with its people & his empathetic response
to their joys & tragedies, mark him as a writer of broader range. He’s also written his autobiography, Red
Lake Revisited & the children’s title Canyon Boy, about his
father-in-law’s life in Canyon de Chelly. For more information, please see the
NM Index.
O'ROURKE, FRANK -
probably one of Taos' more prolific authors, he wrote over 60 novels, including
sports novels, westerns, crime novels, mysteries, historical novels, &
short stories, including The Abduction of Virginia Lee & Swift
Runner. For more information, please
see the NM Index & the NM Fiction bibliography.
OROZCO, FLORA V. -
essayist & poet from Alegre, NM, who is included in La Fragua Sin Fuego
ORR, WILLIAM - Santa Fe
manager of High Desert Angler & co-author of Fly Patterns of Northern
New Mexico
ORSINI, JACQUELINE -
Santa Fe scholar & author of Mary: Images of the Holy Mother. For
more information, please see the New Mexico Index. She also writes under the
name JACQUELINE ORSINI DUNNINGTON
ORTEGA, CRISTINA -
Albuquerque elementary school teacher & author of her autobiographical
children’s novel, set in Chimayó: Los Ojos del Tejedor: the Eyes of the
Weaver. For more information, see the NM Index.
ORTEGA, KATHERINE D. -
Tularosa-born US Treasurer & author who’s included in It’s All in the
Frijoles. For further information,
please see the NM Index.
ORTEGA, PEDRO RIBERA -
Truchas & Santa Fe former editor of El Nuevo Mexicano, elementary
school teacher, Presidente General of the Caballeros De Vargas, & author of
Christmas in Old Santa Fe & La Guadalupana & la Conquistadora in Catholic History of New Mexico. For more information, see RIBERA-ORTEGA, PEDRO & the NM
Index.
ORTIZ, ALFONSO - San Juan
Pueblo-born, UNM professor of anthropology, a northern NM Living Treasure,
author & editor of American Indian Myths and Legends, New
Perspectives on the Pueblos, Tewa World: Space, Time, Being and Becoming
in a Pueblo Society & co-editor of American Indian Trickster Tales.
He is also included in Ceremony of Brotherhood, New Mexico In Maps, Po’pay:
Leader of the First American Revolution* & Stars Above, Earth Below: American Indians and Nature.
For information on his children’s title, see the New Mexican Children’s Authors
list & for further information, see the NM Index
ORTIZ, DEANNA - Los Alamos-raised, later moved to Albuquerque, UNM graduate, musician,
art songwriter who plays in a small acoustic band & poet who’s included in In Company: an Anthology of New Mexico Poets After 1960 p. 510+
ORTIZ, DIANNA - Grants
nun who wrote The Blindfold's Eyes: My Journey From Torture to Truth.
She was working as an Ursuline missionary, in Guatemala, when she was abducted,
tortured & raped, by government security forces. For further information,
please see the NM Index.
ORTIZ, SIMON J. - Acoma
Pueblo poet, editor of Earth Power Coming, journalist, short story
author, university instructor, essayist, lieutenant governor of Acoma, author
of, among others: After and Before the Lightning, From Sand Creek,
Out There Somewhere, Song, Poetry and Language, & Woven
Stone. He is included in American Indian Literature: an Anthology, Carriers
of the Dream Wheel, Ceremony of Brotherhood, Getting Over the
Color Green: Contemporary Environmental Literature of the Southwest, Growing
Up Native American, Harper’s Anthology of 20th Century Native American
Poetry, I Tell You Now: Autobiographical Essays by Native American
Writers, In Company: an Anthology of New Mexico Poets After 1960 p.
113+, Lightning Within, Multicultural Southwest: a Reader, New
Mexico Poetry Renaissance, Po’pay:
Leader of the First American Revolution*, Pueblo Imagination: Landscape & Memory in the
Photography of Lee Marmon, Remembered Earth,
Returning the Gift, Songs From This Earth On Turtle’s Back, Tierra:
Contemporary Short Fiction of New Mexico, Unsettling America, Words
in the Blood; & he edited & is included in Speaking for the
Generations: Native Writers on Writing. For more information, see the NM
Index.
ORTIZ, VIRGINIA E. -
Albuquerque author, who is included in Voces: an Anthology of Nuevo Mexicano
Writers
ORTIZ
Y PINO III, JOSÉ - a graduate of New
Mexico Military Institute & New Mexico State University, he served as an
officer in the US Army, as a Santa Fe County Commissioner & as a NM State
Senator. As Chairman of the NM State Parks Commission, he was instrumental in
building the Villanueva State Park in San Miguel County & the Zoological
& Botanical State Park at Carlsbad.
He owns & operates the Galisteo Historical Museum & is a
curandero. He’s the novelist of Curandero: a Spanish Legend, a
romance, set in the mountains of northern NM, & it also includes folklore,
herbal healing information, knowledge of the Catholic Church as well as brujeria, black magic, in order to defeat the spiritual
& physical enemies that can curse one’s health & well being. He’s also the author of Don José, the Last
Patrón
ORTIZ Y PINO, YOLANDA -
Galisteo daughter of the Ortiz family, who owned the famed, La Mancha Restaurant; & author of Original Native
New Mexican Cookbook
ORTIZ Y PINO DE DINKLE, REYNALDA - Santa Fe member of the Sociedad Folklórica, author of Con Grato Y Dulce Acento = In
Pleasant and Sweet Accents: a Book of Christmas In Poetry, co-author of Spanish
Riddles & Colcha Designs & Una Colección
de Adivinanzas y Diseños de
Colcha. For more information, see also DINKEL,
REYNALDA ORTIZ Y PINO
OSTLER, JAMES - former
manager of Pueblo of Zuni Arts and Crafts, co-author with MARIAN RODEE of the Fetish Carvers of Zuni,
Zuni: a Village of Silversmiths & Zuni Pottery
OTERO, MIGUEL ANTONIO -
Territorial governor & author of My Life On the Frontier, 1864-1882
& My Nine Years as Governor of the Territory of New Mexico
OTERO, NINA (MARIA ADELINA OTERO-WARREN) - Santa Fe educator, political activist in the 1930's
& author of Old Spain In Our Southwest. For additional information,
see: Noche Buena: Hispanic American Christmas Stories, p. 100+, Infinite
Divisions: an Anthology of Chicana Literature & the NM Index
OTERO, ROSALIE - Taos
author who is included in Las Mujeres Hablan & Voces: an Anthology
of Nuevo Mexicano Writers
OTIS, ALICIA - Santa Fe
poet, painter & novelist of The First Koshare & Spiderwoman’s
Dream
OTIS, RAYMOND
- Santa Fe author of the northern NM
village novels, Miguel of the Bright Mountain (set in a northern NM
Hispanic village like Truchas), Little Valley (set in a tiny farming
village similar to Cundiyo); Fire Brigade*, originally published as: Fire
in the Night*, set in Santa Fe. For
more information, see the NM Index.
OTTO-DINIZ,
SARA - editor of the children’s titles, “Biplanes &
Butterflies": an Albuquerque Art Adventure & Through Children's
Eyes: 100 Young Photographers Capture Their Community. She’s the founding director of Art in the
School; develops teaching guides, instructs members, conducts professional development
workshops for teachers, seeks funding, administers grants, oversees staff,
& serves as board liaison.
OVE, ROBERT S. - now a
missionary in Nepal, formerly a teacher at the Chiricahua Apache town of
Whitetail, NM, & author of Geronimo’s Kids: a Teacher’s Lessons on the
Apache Reservation. Please see the NM Index for further information
OWEN, GORDON R. -
professor emeritus in the Communication Studies Department at NMSU & author
of Las Cruces, New Mexico, 1849-1999: Multicultural Crossroads & Two
Alberts: Fountain and Fall. For more information,
please see the NM Index.
OWENS, LOUIS -
Choctaw/Cherokee UNM English professor, literary critic, & mystery novelist
of the Bone Game, Nightland (set in
NM), Sharpest Sight & Wolfsong.
More information on him, can be found in the NM Index & in Here First
& I Hear the Train: Reflections, Inventions, Refractions
PACE, DEWANNA - local
author of the historical romances: Beckoning Shore*, So Close to the
Flame*, Sugar and Spice* & Surrender Sweet Stranger* (in
paperback, only)
PACHECO,
ALLAN - a native
Santa Fean who has attended law school, has many auto tool patents &
for years was primarily involved in international manufacturing &
trade. He’s also the author of Ghosts--Murder--Mayhem; a Chronicle of
Santa Fe*, which mixes humor with hard-boiled memorable moments
PADEN, ANN - NM writer & co-editor with BARBARA BUHLER LYNES, of Maria
Chabot--Georgia O'Keeffe: Correspondence 1941-1949. Please see the NM
Index for more information
PADILLA, AMADO MANUEL -
Albuquerque-born & raised Stanford professor & author of Chicano
Ethnicity & Hispanic Psychology. For more information, see the
NM Index.
PADILLA, CARMELLA - Santa
Fe author of The Chile Chronicles: Tales of a New Mexico Harvest, Low
‘n Slow: Lowriding in New Mexico & contributor to Spanish New
Mexico: the Spanish Colonial Arts Society Collection
PADILLA, GENARO M. -
English professor & Vice Chancellor for Undergraduate Affairs at U.C.
Berkeley, co-editor of UNM Press's "Pasó Por Aquí" series &
author of My History, Not Yours: the Formation of Mexican American
Autobiography. He is also included in Nuevomexicano Cultural Legacy:
Forms, Agencies & Discourse.
PADWA, MARINER E. - Santa
Fe NEA award winner & music historian
PAGE, JAKE - Corrales'
editor, columnist for Natural History & Smithsonian
magazines, author of natural history works including The First Americans: In
Pursuit of Archaeology's Greatest Mystery, God: Myths of the Male Divine,
The Hopi, In the Hands of the Great Spirit: the 20,000-Year History
of American Indians, Lords of the Air: the Smithsonian Book of Birds,
The Mythology of Native North America, Myths, Legends & Folktales
of America: an Anthology, The Navajo, Sacred Lands of Indian
America, Smithsonian Guides to Natural America: the Southwest, Smithsonian's
New Zoo, Songs to Birds: Essays, Tales of the Earth: Paroxysms
& Perturbations of the Blue Planet, Wild Justice: the People of
Geronimo vs. the United States & Zoo: the Modern Ark. He's also
the author of many novels, including a NM mystery series, romantic suspense,
science fiction, horror, & an alternate historical novel. For more
information, please see the NM Index & the NM Fiction bibliography.
PAGE, SUSANNE - Corrales’
photographer & co-author with her husband, JAKE
PAGE, of several books, including Celebration of Being:
Photographs of the Hopi & Navajo, Field Guide to Southwest Indian
Arts and Crafts, The Hopi & The Navajo. For more
information, see the NM Index.
PAIGE,
HARRY W. - NY college teacher, professor of creative writing at
New Mexico State University, Spur Award-winning novelist of Shadow on the
Sun, set in Las Cruces, starring Billy, the Kid
PAINE, LAURAN
- prolific & popular Western
novelist, historian, romance & mystery author who’s written approximately
900 novels, using almost 100 pseudonyms! His novels include the following, set
in NM: Bannon's Law, Devil on
Horseback, Grand Ones of San Ildefonso, The Homesteaders, New
Mexico Heritage, Nightrider's Moon, Peralta Country, Skye,
Spirit Meadow, Tears of the Heart & Thunder Valley. He
also writes under the names: CLAY ALLEN,
FRANK BOSWORTH, RICHARD CLARKE, AMBER
DANA & ANGELA GORDON
PAINTER, CHARLES W. - NM
State Department of Game & Fish endangered-species biologist,
herpetologist, & co-author of Amphibians and Reptiles of New Mexico
PAINTER, ROBERT -
Albuquerque author of The Native American Indian Artist Directory
PALADIN, DAVID CHETHLAHE -
Navajo symbolic painter, member of the OSS, Dachau
survivor, testifier at the Nuremberg War Crime Trials & author of Painting
the Dream: the Visionary Art. He is also included in The Spirit That
Wants Me
PALMANTEER, TED D. -
Santa Fe Colville artist & poet, included in Remembered Earth & Songs
From This Earth on Turtle's Back
PALMER, CATHERINE -
former Artesia teacher, now award-winning Missouri Christian author of
historical romances: Prairie Fire, Prairie Rose, Prairie Storm
(Town Called Hope series) & Dangerous
Silence, a contemporary thriller. The following
are all set in NM: Fatal Harvest*, Cowboy Christmas* which includes
the novella “The Rancher’s Heart" & her novella included in Victorian Christmas Tea
PALMER, JAMES - former game warden, pilot & undercover
investigator for the Department of Natural Resources, now Silver City author of
The Governor’s Wife: a Novel of the Civil War in New Mexico, a poignant
& colorful historical novel of defeat in love & war
PANKEY, JOE - Truth or
Consequences-area rancher & author of his memoirs, Land and Cattle
PAPICH, MARGERY W.
see LAYNE, MARION
MARGERY
PARENT, LAURENCE - former
New Mexican, now living in Texas, & author of several books, including Hiking
New Mexico & New Mexico Scenic Drives. For further information,
please see the NM Index.
PARIS, TRACI - poet & co-organizer of Herland,
an Albuquerque women’s group designed to support new authors & member of
the Albuquerque team who competed in the National Poetry Slam
Championships. She’s included in In Company: an Anthology of New Mexico Poets
After 1960 p. 502+. For more
information, see the NM Index.
PAROTTI, PHILLIP - Silver
City-born professor & author on ancient Greece & Troy; including the
novel, Fires in the Sky & the nonfiction work: The Greek Generals
Talk: Memoirs of the Trojan War
PAROZ, JO -
PARR,
SUSAN SHERWOOD - Brooklyn-born,
PARSONS, ALEXANDER - Santa Fe-raised son of JACK
PARSONS,
NMSU-educated, University of New Hampshire English assistant professor in the
undergraduate & graduate writing programs & novelist of Leaving
Disneyland, about an aging Black convict & his struggles in life; &
In the Shadows of the Sun, about two NM brothers who want to enlist in
the army during WWII. Their father is
opposed to his sons’ desire to fight, especially for a government that is
revoking leases on federal land, including their ranch, for bomb-testing purposes.
One enlists & is sent to the Philippines, where he becomes a POW &
endures the horrors of the Bataan Death March.
For further information, please see the NM Index.
PARSONS, ELSIE WORTHINGTON CLEWS - NM anthropologist, sociologist, folklorist, 1st woman president of the
American Anthropological Association, author of Isleta Paintings, Pueblo
Mothers and Children: Essays, Taos Pueblo, Taos Tales, & Tewa
Tales. For more information, see the NM Index.
PARSONS, FRANCIS B. -
Silver City architect, historian & author of Early 17th Century Missions
of the Southwest
PARSONS, JACK - Santa Fe
photographer, cinematographer, grandson of ELSIE
CLEWS PARSONS, father of ALEXANDER
PARSONS, a partner of Blue Sky Productions, a documentary film
company; co-author of Land and Cattle, author of Santa Fe and
Northern New Mexico, Straight From the Heart: Portraits of Traditional
Hispanic Musicians, photographer of The Chile Chronicles: Tales of a New
Mexico Harvest, Heaven's Window: a Journey Through Northern New Mexico,
Low ‘n Slow: Lowriding in New Mexico, Musica de los Viejitos: Hispano
Folk Music of the Rio Grande del Norte, Santa Fe Houses &
contributor to Spanish New Mexico: the Spanish Colonial Arts Society
Collection
PARSONS, TANNER - former
Albuquerque native, author of his memoir, Baseball Summer, about the
summer he became a Little League member, while his cousin, Nolan Ryan, became a
Major League pitcher. For further information, please see the NM Index.
PASCALE, CELINE-MARIE -
Taos former co-owner of the Blue Corn Trading Co., the Red Willow Restaurant,
& author of the Blue Corn Cook Book
PASCHICH, ED - Corrales'
builder, owner of Passage Construction Co., co-author of innovative books on
building: Mainstreaming Sustainable Architecture: Casa De Paja: a Demonstration, Timber Reduced Energy
Efficient Homes & Tire House Book. For more information, see the
NM Index
PASQUINI MASOPUST, KATIE - Santa Fe nationally-recognized
fiber artist, well-known for her mandalas,
dimensional quilts, & fractured landscapes; one of her quilts was named to
the "20th Century's 100 Best Quilts" list in 1999. She is also the
author of Ghost Layers & Color Washes: Three Steps to Spectacular Quilts
& Mandala: for Contemporary Quilt
Designs & Other Mediums. For more information, please see the NM Index.
PATERSON, KENT IAN - Las
Cruces raised, now Albuquerque based journalist & author of Hot Empire
of Chile. For more information, please see the NM Index.
PATRAW, (PAULINE M.) POLLY -
one of the 1st women ranger naturalists in the National Park Service, botanist,
author of Flowers of the Southwest Mesas & a northern NM Living
Treasure. For more information, see the NM Index.
PATTEN, CHRISTINE TAYLOR -
northern NM artist & author who is included in From the Faraway Nearby:
Georgia O’Keeffe as Icon & The Spirit That Wants Me
PATTERSON, BARBARA CORN -
Pecos Valley 4th generation rancher & author of her memoir, Rock House
Ranch: My Lazy-A-Bar Days
PATTERSON, PAUL E. - Ruidoso
retired rancher, short story author, journalist & novelist of Triple
Crown, a horse-racing novel set at the Downs in Sierra Vista & author
of a biography, Hardhat and Stetson: Robert O. Anderson Oilman and Cattleman
PATTERSON-RUDOLPH, CAROL -
UNM-educated author of On the Trail of Spider Woman: Petroglyphs,
Pictographs, & Myths of the Southwest & Petroglyphs and Pueblo
Myths of the Rio Grande
PATTIE, JAMES OHIO - Taos
mountain man, explorer & author of The Personal Narrative of James O.
Pattie of Kentucky. For more information, see the NM Index.
PATTISON, NATALIE B. - NM anthropologist & contributor to Prehistory
& History in the Southwest
PAUL, AILEEN - Santa Fe
author of several books on children's crafts & cooking, including: Kids
Cooking Without a Stove, The Kids’ Diet Cookbook & Kids
Outdoor Gardening. For more information, please see the NM Index.
PAUL, PAULA G. - West
Texas ranch-raised, now Albuquerque playwright, former Albuquerque Journal
& Tribune journalist, teacher & author of the NM romantic
suspense novel: Inn of the Clowns; her mysteries include Symptoms of
Death, An Improper Death & Half a Mind to Murder which
comprise the Dr. Alexandra Gladstone series, set in Victorian England. She is
also included in Hot Biscuits: Eighteen Stories by Women and Men of the
Ranching West. For more information, please see the New Mexican Children’s
Authors list & the NM Index.
PAULSEN, GARY - La Luz
resident, essayist, three time Newbery Honor Award-winning children's, stories,
young adult & adult western series novelist, of, among others, Murphy’s
Ambush & Murphy’s Herd.
He’s also written several autobiographies: Eastern Sun, Winter Moon
& Winterdance: the Fine Madness of
Running the Iditarod. For information on his children’s titles, see the New
Mexican Children’s Authors list.
PAUSEWANG,
JOANN - co-author of Old Town,
Albuquerque, New Mexico: a Guide to its History & Architecture
PAYNE, M.M. - poet &
author who is included in The Spirit That Wants Me
PAYTIAMO, JAMES (FLAMING ARROW) - Acoma author of the 1932 novel, Flaming Arrow's
People*, which is set in NM; he is also included in Cry of the
Thunderbird
PEACOCKE, LEIGH - Santa
Fe co-author of Santa Fe Fiesta Costumes
PEARCE, CHARLES S. -
retired rancher, educated at the Los Alamos Ranch School & author of Los
Alamos Before the Bomb and Other Stories. For more information, see
the NM Index.
PEARCE, T. M. (THOMAS MATTHEW) - former UNM English professor, author of among others, Alice Corbin
Henderson, "The Dukes of Alburquerque:
Albuquerque, New Mexico, Old Spain & New Spain", Mary Hunter
Austin, New Mexico Place Names, Oliver La Farge,
Southwest Heritage; a Literary History with Bibliographies, Stories
of the Spanish Southwest: Cuentos de los Niños
Chicanos; poet of Poets' Fellowship: Verses, & who is included
in Earth Chant, Sandscript p. v. & Turquoise Land. He also co-edited Signature of the Sun;
Southwest Verse, 19OO-195O. For
further information, see the NM Index.
PEARL, MARE - Bosque Farms co-novelist with SUE BOGGIO,
of Sunlight & Shadow, a cross-cultural love story, set in NM. Mare
is a UNM mental health technician at the UNM Children’s Psychiatric Center
& Sue is a UNM Health Center registered nurse . 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.
PEARLMAN, BILL -
off & on NM resident, actor, psychotherapist, poet of Characters of the
Sacred* & Flareup of Twosomes,
& is included in In Company: an
Anthology of New Mexico Poets After 1960 p. 432+
PEARY, WARREN -
Albuquerque investigative health journalist, son of WILLIAM
S. PEAVY, & co-author of Super Nutrition Gardening
PEASTER,
LILLIAN - author of Pueblo
Pottery Families: Acoma, Cochiti, Hopi, Isleta, Jemez, Laguna, Nambe, Picuris, Pojoaque, San Ildefonso, San Juan, Santa
Clara, Santo Domingo, Taos, Tesuque, Zia, Zuni
PEAVY, WILLIAM S. -
Albuquerque doctor of horticultural science, author on health & gardening,
host of a radio talk show, & co-author with his son of Super Nutrition
Gardening
PECENY, MARK - Associate
Professor of Political Science at UNM & a contributor to The Peruvian
Labyrinth: Polity, Society, Economy* & the author of Democracy at
the Point of Bayonets*
PECHTEL, MARTíN - Santa Fe author of Long Life, Honey in the
Heart: a Story of Initiation & Eloquence From the Shores of a Mayan Lake
& Secrets of the Talking Jaguar: a Mayan Shaman’s Journey to the Heart
of the Indigenous Soul
PECK, DONNA - Albuquerque
co-author of the Very Special Raspberry Cookbook
PECK, MARY - photographer
of Chaco Canyon: a Center and Its World, & who is included in Essential
Landscape: the New Mexico Photographic Survey
PECK, RICHARD - Placitas, former UNM president,
now UNM English professor, novelist, playwright, author of New Mexico
Experience, 1598-1998: a Confluence of Cultures & novelist of Strategy of Terror & Dead
Pawn, the story of Bob Wince, an Albuquerque building contractor, who’s
sentenced to the NM State Penitentiary for a crime he didn't commit. He’s granted an early release & vows to
re-establish his life & exact revenge on those who set him up. For
more information, please see the NM Index.
PECKHAM, STEWART - NM
State Archaeologist, Pueblo pottery expert, formerly affiliated with the
Laboratory of Anthropology at the Museum of NM & author of From This
Earth: the Ancient Art of Pueblo Pottery & Prehistoric Weapons in
the Southwest. He is also included in Secrets of a City: Papers on Albuquerque Area Archaeology in
Honor of Richard A. Bice
PELOS, CAROLEE - Taos
photographer of her husband, JEAN-LOUIS BOURGEOIS’ books, Spectacular
Vernacular: a New Appreciation of Traditional Desert Architecture & Spectacular
Vernacular: the Adobe Tradition
PEÑA, ABE M. - San
Mateo-born, son of a sheep rancher, now Grants author of Memories of Cibola:
Stories from New Mexico Villages. For further information, please see
the NM Index.
PEÑA, AMADO MAURILIO - Santa Fe Indo-Hispanic watercolorist, serigraph,
etching artist & illustrator of the children’s picture books, Amadito and Spider Woman, Calor: a Story
of Warmth for All Ages; & author
with his sister Irene of Two Voices: a Collection of Art & Poetry*,
to celebrate the mysteries of family & landscape. Irene Pena's verse is complemented by the
unique style of Amado M. Pena, Jr., including
paintings from his personal collection stretching across four decades of his
career. They both left home in
PEÑA, JUAN JOSÉ - former
director of Chicano Studies at Highlands University, Las Vegas translator &
author, who is included in The Contested Homeland, a Chicano History of New
Mexico & Voces: an Anthology of Nuevo Mexicano Writers
PERALTA, ROSALIE OTERO -
former English professor at the University of Albuquerque & short story
author, who is included in Cuentos Chicanos (1980 ed.)
PERCEVAL, DON - English-born, primarily
California artist, author &
illustrator of many titles, including From Ice Mountain: Indian Settlement of the Americas, Maynard Dixon Sketch Book & A
Navajo Sketch Book. He also
illustrated the children’s books, The Little Indian Pottery Maker by ANN NOLAN CLARK &
Owl in the Cedar Tree, by NATACHEE SCOTT
MOMADAY
PEREA, KRISTINA -
Albuquerque curator at the National Hispanic Cultural Center, & author of Cuentos
y Encuentros: Paintings by Ray Martín Abeyta. For more information, please see the NM
Index.
PEREA, ROBERT L. - Oglala Lakota Sioux/Hispanic Vietnam veteran, educated at
UNM, now Arizona teacher & novelist of Stacey’s Story. He is also
included in Cuentos Chicanos, Earth Power Coming, Remembered
Earth & Returning the Gift
PEREZ, JEANNINE - Los Lunas 4th grade teacher at Acoma Pueblo &
author of Peace in Any Language*, to help people who work with children,
to instill inner peace & expand awareness of our relationship with
families, schools & the world with activities such as drama, art, games,
storytelling, & foods. She is also the author of Bulletin Board
Basics: Hands on Science* & Explore and Experiment*.
Please see the NM Index for more information.
PERINI, ROBIN -
PERKINS,
PERKINS, NANCY LUAN -
former Portales, now Clovis poet & author who is included in The Spirit
That Wants Me
PERLMAN, SUSAN E. -
Albuquerque owner of a contract ethnographic & history research company
& who is included in Essays in Twentieth-Century New Mexico History
PERRIGO, DR. LYNN I. -
Las Vegas Emeritus Professor of History at NM Highlands & author of many
excellent books on Southwestern history, including: The American Southwest:
Its Peoples and Cultures, Gateway to Glorieta: a History of Las Vegas,
New Mexico, Hispanos: Historic Leaders
in New Mexico, & Rio Grande Adventure: a History of New Mexico
PERRINE, MARY - NM author
of the children’s picture books, Nannabah's
Friend & Salt Boy
PERRONE, BABETTE - Santa
Fe author & photographer of Medicine Women, Curanderas,
& Women Doctors
PERRY, BELINDA E. - NM
writer of westerns & author who is included in The Spirit That Wants Me
PETERS, EDYTHE CAMPBELL -
Belen painter, businesswoman & poet who is included in Sandscript p.
47 & Turquoise Land
PETERS, NANCY - Las
Cruces editor, publisher, NMSU Latin professor & author who is included in Spirit
That Wants Me
PETERSEN, INEZ -
UNM-educated, Quinault author; some of whose work can
be found in Circle of Women & Earth Song, Sky Spirit
PETERS, STEVE -
Albuquerque composer & author of HERE*INGS: a Sonic Geohistory*,
an environmental sound exploration, with a CD. For further information, please
see the NM Index.
PETERSON, JEANNE WHITEHOUSE - UNM professor, director of the Rio Grande Writers Project & author
of many award-winning children's books, including Don't Forget Winona, I
Have a Sister My Sister Is Deaf, My Mama Sings, Sometimes I Dream
Horses, That Is That & While the Moon Shines Bright
PETTITT, ROLAND A. -
former Los Alamos National Laboratory geothermal engineer & author of Exploring
the Jemez Country & Los Alamos Before the Dawn
PFAEFFLE, FELIX - Karlsruhe, Germany soldier who served in the Luftwaffe Flak
Corps, immigrated to the US, retired from the computer industry & now lives
in Las Cruces, where he met CHUCK MILES,
Missouri-born farm-boy, who served in WW II in the infantry until he was
wounded in Germany. Now Las Cruces authors they decided to write Once
Enemies, Now Friends: Two Soldiers Tell Their Stories of WWII*. For further
information, please see the NM Index.
PFLOCK, KARL - Placitas
UFO researcher & author of Roswell in Perspective & Roswell:
Inconvenient Facts & the Will to Believe & co-author of Shockingly
Close to the Truth! Confessions of a Grave-Robbing Ufologist
P.G. - PERO GRULLO, an anonymous contributor to the
weekly newspaper, La Revista de Taos, included
in Herencia: the Anthology of Hispanic
Literature of the United States, p. 139+
PHILLIPS, JUDITH -
Bernardo author of some of the best & earliest Southwestern xeriscape
gardening books: Natural By Design, New Mexico Gardener’s Guide, Plants
for Natural Gardens, & Southwestern Landscaping With Native Plants.
For more information, see the NM Index.
PIAT, BILL - former Santa
Fean, now professor of law at Texas Tech, author of Language On the Job:
Balancing Business Needs and Employee Rights & Only English?: Law
and Language Policy in the United States
PICKENS, HOMER C. -
hunter, trapper, former director of the Department of Game & Fish, &
author of Tracks Across New Mexico
PIEPMEIER, CHARLOTTE -
Santa Fe author of the children's book, Lucy's Journey to the Wild West: a
True Story, about a chocolate Labrador retriever, who moves with her family
from North Carolina to Santa Fe. For more information, please see the NM Index.
PIERCE, DONNA - Santa Fe
winner of the Historical Society of NM’s 1997 Ralph Emerson Twitchell
Award for her co-editing of Spanish New Mexico, the Spanish Colonial Arts
Society Collection; essayist of Cambios:
the Spirit of Transformation in Spanish Colonial Art, Mexican
Celebrations, & Mexican Churches. She also edited Painting a New World: Mexican Art and Life,
1521-1821* & Vivan Las Fiestas!
PIETERS, CARLE - a planetary geologist who’s
included in The Best of From the Plaza: Interviews
& Opinions from the Plaza of Santa Fe
PIGNO, ANTONIA QUINTANA -
Albuquerque poet & author who is included in Southwestern Women: New
Voices. For further information, please see QUINTANA
PIGNO, ANTONIA
PIJOAN, TERESA -
Española-born, raised at the San Juan Pueblo Trading Post, now Albuquerque
South Valley teacher of creative writing, collector of Hispanic & American
Indian tales: La Cuentista, Healers on the Mountain, Listen, a
Story Comes: Escucha, Que Viene
un Cuento, Pueblo Indian Wisdom: Native American Legends and Mythology,
Spanish-American Folktales: the Practical Wisdom of Spanish-Americans in 28
Eloquent & Simple Stories, Stories From a Dark and Evil World, Ways
of Indian Magic, Ways of Indian Wisdom & White Wolf Woman:
Native American Transformation Myths; & mystery author of Dead
Kachina Man. For more information please see the New Mexican Children’s
Authors list & the NM Index.
PIKE, ZEBULON
PILLSBURY, DOROTHY L. -
Santa Fe social worker & memoirist of early Santa Fe, in: Adobe Doorways,
No High Adobe, Roots In Adobe, & Star Over Adobe. More
information on her can be found in the NM Index.
PINKERTON, ELAINE - Santa Fe author of Santa Fe On Foot & The
Santa Fe Trail by Bicycle: a Historic Adventure, editor of her parents'
book: From Calcutta With Love: the World War II Letters of Richard and Reva Beard; & novelist of Beast of Bengal*,
a well-written, tightly-plotted, skinprickling WW II
thriller & romance set in the China-Burma-India Theatre
PINKUS, OSCAR -
PINNELL, BILL -
Albuquerque KNME's advertising coordinator &
novelist of the NM Territory western: Terror On the Border
PINO, MANUEL -
Albuquerque Acoma Pueblo journalist & editor, included in Remembered Earth:
an Anthology of Contemporary Native American Literature. For more
information, see the NM Index
PINO, PEDRO BAPTISTA -
19th century Tomé delegate to the Spanish Cádiz
parliament & author of Exposition on the Province of New Mexico, 1812
& Three New Mexico Chronicles. For more information on him, please
see the NM Index.
PIPER, TI - freelance
outdoor writer, journalist for the Albuquerque Tribune, & author of Fishing
in New Mexico
PITTMAN, KAREN -
Albuquerque poet who is included in Turquoise Land
PLATERO, DILLON - Navajo
Director of the Navajo Curriculum Center, Deputy Director of the Rough Rock
Demonstration School & author of Coyote Stories
PLOG, FRED - Las Cruces, NMSU
professor of sociology/anthropology, co-author of Generations in Clay:
Pueblo Pottery of the American Southwest, co-editor of The San Juan
Tomorrow: Planning for the Conservation of Cultural Resources in the San Juan
Basin & contributor to Themes
In Southwest Prehistory & Understanding Complexity in the
Prehistoric Southwest
PLOG, STEPHEN -
Roswell-raised anthropologist, professor of anthropology at the University of
Virginia & author of Ancient Peoples of the American Southwest &
contributor to Ceramic Production in
the American Southwest &
Themes In Southwest Prehistory
PLOSKI, CYNTHIA - Rio
Rancho author of Conversations With My Healers, My Journey to Wellness From
Breast Cancer*
PLOSSU, BERNARD -
photographer, author of New Mexico Revisited, & who is included in Essential
Landscape: the New Mexico Photographic Survey
POE, SOPHIE ALBERDING -
pioneer Roswell wife & author of her memoirs: Buckboard Days. For
additional information, please see the NM Index.
POET SCOUT
see CRAWFORD,
CAPTAIN JACK
POLICH, JUDITH BLUESTONE -
an attorney, entrepreneur, poet, & author of Return of the Children of
Light: Incan & Mayan Prophecies for a New World, who lives in the
mountains south of Santa Fe
POLING, DAVID -
Albuquerque retired Presbyterian minister & author of Schweitzer: a
Biography, Sea of Glory: a Novel: Based on the True WW II Story of the
Four Chaplains & the U.S.A.T. Dorchester & To Be Born Again: the
Conversion Phenomenon. He is related to one of the four chaplains in his
novel. For more information, please see the NM Index.
POLING-KEMPES, LESLEY -
Abiquiu historian of Harvey Girls: Women Who Opened the West, Valley
of Shining Stone, the Story of Abiquiu & novelist of Canyon of
Remembering. For more information, please see the NM Index.
POLISAR, LISA - Albuquerque jazz flutist, author of Straight
Ahead: a Musician’s Guide to Learning Jazz and Staying Inspired* &
mystery author of the riveting Blackwater
Tango, set in NYC & Knee Deep, a mystery set in NM
PONCE, MARY HELEN -
Albuquerque-raised, former UNM teacher, now California professor, novelist,
short story author, biographer & memoirist of Hoyt Street: an
Autobiography. For additional information, see: Chicana Ways:
Conversations with Ten Chicana Writers, Currents From the Dancing River,
Infinite Divisions: an Anthology of Chicana Literature, Las Mujeres
Hablan, Southwest Tales: a Contemporary Collection & The
Stories That Shape Us : Contemporary Women Write About the West: an Anthology
POND, WALLACE - former
Director of Off-Site Programs in the Department of Education at the College of
Santa Fe, now the Director of Online Education & author of The Lights
Are On, Is Anybody Home? Education in America*
PONTE,
KELLY J. - NM expert on Retaining Soil Moisture in the American
Southwest*. She earned her
B.S. degree in plant & soil sciences from the University of Massachusetts,
received her M.S. degree in agronomy & Ph.D. in soil science from Oklahoma
State University.
POOLE, DAVID -
Albuquerque musician & freelance author of River’s Bend, his
memories of fly-fishing with his father
POORE, ANNE - Albuquerque
technical writer at Sandia National Laboratories, editor of the Archaeological
Society of New Mexico & co-editor of Secrets of a City: Papers on Albuquerque Area Archaeology in
Honor of Richard A. Bice & editor of By Hands Unknown: Papers
on Rock Art and Archaeology in Honor of James G. Bain & Reflections:
Papers on Southwestern Culture History in Honor of Charles H. Lange
POORE, ROBBY -
Albuquerque illustrator of Medieval Herbal Remedies: the Old English
Herbarium & Anglo-Saxon Medicine, edited & translated by his
mother, ANNE VAN ARSDALL
POPE, JOHN W. - district
court judge for Valencia, Cibola & Sandoval counties; co-author of Workers’
Compensation In New Mexico & contributor to Heroes of the Rio Abajo:
Stories of the Brave Men & Women in Valencia County History
POPE, MELISSA A. - Objibwe dancer & writer, educated in Santa Fe, who is
included in Neon Pow-Wow
POPKES, OPAL LEE -
Roswell-born Choctaw author included in Remembered Earth & Song
of the Turtle: American Indian Literature
PORTER, EARL - operator & curator
of the Truchas Mill at El Rancho de Las Golondrinas,
the only operating Spanish Colonial flour mill in
PORTER, ELIOT - Santa
Fe's world-renowned photographer & essayist of, among others, All Under
Heaven: the Chinese World, Eliot Porter’s Southwest, Grand Canyon,
Intimate Landscapes: Photographs, Mexican Celebrations, Mexican
Churches, & The West
PORTER, LYLE K. & WILMA H. -
PORTER, PAMELA - Las
Cruces photographer of Linda G. Harris’s Houses in Time: a Tour Through New
Mexico History
POSTON, JEFFREY -
Albuquerque author of the Texas historical novel: The Peacekeeper
POUNDS, KELLEY- Corona
author of a historical romance, The Awakening Fire, set in NM Territory,
in 1882. The heroine is based on Sister Blandina Segale & the hero is part Mescalero Apache, &
Geronimo’s granddaughters helped with the research for the novel. She is also
included in Journeys of the Heart*, with a novella, "The Mystic's
Promise", set in the Southwest
POWELL, JAMES - NM native, Las Cruces range conservationist & author of many western novels, including Apache Moon, Death Wind, The Hunt, The Malpais Rider*, set in Albuquerque & The Mule Thieves*, is set in Magdalena
POWELL, JAMES H. - Las
Cruces co-author of Disorder in Lincoln County: Frank Warner Angel's Reports
& Jessie Evans, Lincoln County Badman
POWERS, DANIEL - Tijeras
author & illustrator of Jiro’s Pearl,
& illustrator of Dear Katie, the Volcano is a Girl, From the Land
of the White Birch & Tuti, Blue
Horse, and the Nipnope Man
POWERS, ROBERT P. - archaeologist, program manager
of Anthropology Projects for the National Park Service, formerly an
archaeologist with the Division of Cultural Research (Chaco Center) of the
National Park Service, editor of Peopling of Bandelier: New Insights from
the Archaeology of the Pajarito Plateau*, co-editor of The Bandelier
Archeological Survey & contributor to From Folsom to Fogelson: the Cultural Resources Inventory Survey of Pecos
National Historical Park & New
Light on Chaco Canyon
POWERS, WILLOW ROBERTS -
Santa Fe anthropologist, UNM & the University of Iowa professor &
author of Navajo Trading: the End of an Era
PRECEK, KATHARINE WILSON -
Albuquerque author of the children’s books: The Keepsake Chest & Penny
In the Road
PRECHTEL, MARTÍN - Santa
Fe Huron/Swiss author of & apprentice to Secrets of the Talking Jaguar,
A Mayan Shaman’s Journey to the Heart of the Indigenous Soul & Long
Life, Honey in the Heart: a Story of Initiation & Eloquence from the Shores
of a Mayan Lake, his autobiography
PREDOCK, ANTOINE - acclaimed
Albuquerque architect & author of his memoirs: Antoine Predock, Architect
PRELUTSKY, JACK -
acclaimed, prolific, former Albuquerque children's poet. For information on his
children’s titles, see the New Mexican Children’s Authors list.
PRESTON, CHRISTINE -
Santa Fe photographer & co-author of Royal Road: El Camino Real From
Mexico City to Santa Fe. For more information, please see the NM Index.
PRESTON, DOUGLAS - Santa
Fe is a Research Associate at the Laboratory of Anthropology & author of Cities
of Gold: a Journey Across the Southwest In Coronado's Footsteps, Dinosaurs
In the Attic, Talking to the Ground; an essay in Eyewitness to
Discovery, & the horror novels: Relics, it’s sequel, Reliquary,
the mysteries Mount Dragon, set primarily in White Sands & the
Jornada del Muerto & Thunderhead, the archaeological search for
Quivira in Utah & set partially in Santa Fe. For more information, see the
NM Index
PRESTON, MARK -
Albuquerque author (& former California librarian) of California Mission
Cookery & co-author of The Hatch Chile Cookbook
PREUCEL,
ROBERT W. - director of the Kotyiti Research Project, a collaborative research project
with the Pueblo of Cochiti; gathering archaeological & historical
information on Kotyiti, an ancestral Cochiti
community occupied from A.D. 1640-1694.
It was the sixth of seven ancestral villages occupied in their southward
migrations from
PREUSCH, DEB -
PRICE, ANDREW H. -
conservation scientist & co-author of Amphibians and Reptiles of New
Mexico
PRICE, BREN - Taos
watercolor painter & author of Inside the Wind
PRICE, L. GREER - senior geologist, chief editor of the New Mexico Bureau of Geology
& Mineral Resources at New Mexico Tech in Socorro, author of High Plains
of Northeastern New Mexico: A Guide to Geology & Culture*, Grand
Canyon & contributor to Albuquerque:
a Guide to Its Geology and Culture, 2003 ed. For more information, please
see the NM Index.
PRICE, ROBERTA - Albuquerque intellectual property attorney, & photographer, who
spent 6 ½ years at the Libre commune in southern
Colorado’s Huerfano Valley in the late
1960’s. She’d taken photographs at most
of the communes in southern Colorado & northern NM, during that time &
has written Huerfano, a Memoir of Life in the Counterculture.
PRICE, V.B. (VINCENT BARRETT) - Albuquerque journalist, teacher, former editor of New Mexico
& Century magazines, UNM professor, novelist of The Oddity,
architectural author of A City at the End of the World, poet of Chaco
Body, Chaco Trilogy: Poems, Mythwaking*
& Semblances, 1962-1971 & with his wife Rini,
author of Seven Deadly Sins. He
is the co-editor of Anasazi Architecture and American Design, is
included in & co-edited In Company: an Anthology of New Mexico Poets
After 1960 p. 286+, New Mexico Poetry Renaissance, Sandscript
p. 46, Tarasque II & Turquoise Land. He’s the son of the actor Vincent Price &
brother of VICTORIA
PRICE. For more information, see the NM Index.
PRICE, VICTORIA - Santa
Fe daughter of Vincent Price & author of Vincent Price: a Daughter’s
Biography. For more information, please see the NM Index.
PRIESTLEY,
LEE - Kansas-born, Las Cruces owner with her husband of
the Las Cruces Sun-News,
award-winning author of Billy, the Kid: the Good Side of a Bad Man, Journeys
of Faith: the Story of Preacher & Edith Lewis & Shalam:
Utopia on the Rio Grande, 1881-1907.
She’s the novelist of Murder Takes the Baths*, a mystery; &
the children’s author of Because of Rainbows*, which is set in
PRINCE, L. BRADFORD -
1889-1893 governor of the NM Territory & author of Spanish Mission Churches
of New Mexico. For more information, see the NM Index
PRISCIANTELLI,
TOM - he & his wife live in a
solar-powered adobe home in northern NM, he’s an expert on hiking & author
of Hiking North America's Great
Western Volcanoes: a Guidebook* & Spirit of the American Southwest: Geology/Ancient Eras & Prehistoric People/ Hiking through
Time, which includes information on northern NM’s hot springs & Valle
Caldera’s history as the heart of a volcano which erupted & created the
cliff foundations at Bandelier National Monument, from it’s rock & ash
PRITCHARD, MELISSA -
former Taoseño, now teacher at the Arizona State University, winner of the
Flannery O’Connor Award for her short stories, Spirit Seizures: Stories,
author & novelist, who is included in From the Faraway Nearby: Georgia
O’Keeffe as Icon & Walking the Twilight: Women Writers of the
Southwest
PRITCHETT, GRACE -
Placitas teacher & author of The Road Goes This Way and That Way
PRUGH, JEAN - Santa Fe
interior designer, clairvoyant, spiritual counselor & author of All My
Relations
PTACEK,
KATHRYN - Albuquerque-raised, UNM graduate, married to dark
fantasy novelist Charles Grant, they live in Newton, NJ. She’s written an historical fantasy series,
numerous historical romances under various names, five horror novels, including
Kachina*, set in NM & Shadow-eyes* (alternate title is Shadoweyes*), set in the Sandia Mountains &
Albuquerque. She also edited Women of
Darkness II.
PURCELL, JACK - an avid outdoorsman reared in NM, & novelist of Hell Bent
for Santa Fe, which is about the Texas-Santa Fe Expedition of 1841 (Republic
of Texas’ ill-fated expedition to NM, to foment revolt against the Mexican
government). Purcell resides in north
central NM.
PUTCAMP, LUISE, JR. -
Albuquerque author included in the new edition of the Chicken Soup for the
Grandparent's Soul. For more information, please see the NM Index.
PUTMAN, MIKE L. - UNM
research geographer & contributor to New Mexico in Maps
PYLE, ERNIE - one of
Albuquerque's most famous & loved WWII journalists, Pulitzer-winning
columnist & author of Brave Men, Ernie Pyle’s Southwest, Ernie’s
America: the Best of Ernie Pyle’s 1930's Travel Dispatches, Ernie’s War:
the Best of Ernie Pyle’s World War II Dispatches, Here Is Your War, Home
Country & Last Chapter
QUARLES, JOHNNY - former
Grants resident & western novelist of Fool’s Gold*, No Man’s Land*
& Spirit Trail*
QUENK, NAOMI -
QUERRY, RON - former Taos
rancher, English professor, award-winning novelist of Bad Medicine &
Death of Bernadette Lefthand, a Novel. He also
wrote the essay collection, I See By My Get-Up. For more information,
please see the NM Index & New Mexican Fiction By
Place bibliography.
QUINN, DANIEL - former
Madrid resident, journalist & winner of the first "Turner
Tomorrow" award, for Ishmael; novelist of My Ishmael: a Sequel,
Newcomer's Guide to the Afterlife...Known Commonly as The Little Book
& Story of B. For further information, please see the NM Index.
QUINTANA, LEROY V. -
Albuquerque-born, Raton-raised, former lecturer in the English Department at UNM,
now English professor at the San Diego Mesa College, winner of an NEA award
& the National Book Award, short story author of La Promesa
& Other Stories, author of several collections of poems, including The
Great Whirl of Exile, History of Home, My Hair Turning Gray Among
Strangers, & Sangre. He co-edited Paper Dance: 55 Latino
Poets. For additional information,
see also: Ceremony of Brotherhood, Floating Borderlands, Hispanics
in the United States: an Anthology of Creative Literature, In Company:
an Anthology of New Mexico Poets After 1960 p. 262+, New Mexico Poetry
Renaissance, Pasó Por Aquí p. 271+ & Voices From the Rio
Grande. For further information,
please see the NM Index.
QUINTANA, MIGUEL DE -
17th & 18th century Santa Cruz mystic, poet & farmer, who was
investigated by the Inquisition. He is included in Tradiciones
Nuevomexicanas: Hispano Arts & Culture of New Mexico. For more
information, see the NM Index.
QUINTANA PIGNO, ANTONIA -
Albuquerque poet included in Infinite Divisions: an Anthology of Chicana
Literature. For further information, please see PIGNO,
ANTONIA QUINTANA
QUIST, H.L. "BUSTER" - a former Albuquerque, now Phoenix sports star
& author of Secrets: a Novel of Golf and Politics &
his memoirs, Bulldogs Forever: a History of Albuquerque High School & a
Memoir of the Class of 1954* & Rediscovering America! Growing Up in
the 40s*
With Thanks to my friends at the Albuquerque/Bernalillo County
Library System
© Suzy Sultemeier,
1983-2005
