NEW MEXICAN CHILDREN'S AUTHORS

8/22/2005

The following authors are included because New Mexico was or is their home. 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. Non-native authors have also been included, because their stories are set in New Mexico. Please check the catalog for information on the location of the title in which you are interested. The Library's homepage can be found at: www.cabq.gov/library

For further information on an author, please check the catalog under SUBJECT using the person's last name.

See also the ALBUQUERQUE AUTHORS, ALBUQUERQUE FOR NOVEL LOVERS, CHILDREN’S & YOUNG ADULT TITLES SET IN ALBUQUERQUE, 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.

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This list has been greatly enriched by the generosity of Betty Reynolds, director emeritus of the library at New Mexico Tech in Socorro, who maintained for many years a similar list of NM Fiction. She has allowed me to add her list to mine & I am very grateful.

ABBOTT, KATE - Santa Fe author of the Navajo children's mystery: Mystery at Echo Cliff

ABEYTA, LOUISE [E-YEH-SHURE (BLUE CORN)] - author of the 1939 nonfiction title, I am a Pueblo Indian Girl

ABRAHAM, SUSAN GONZALES & DENISE - El Paso sisters & teachers whose first novel is Cecilia's Year, based on their mother’s life on a farm in Derry, NM. Nearly 14 & very poor, Cecilia Gonzales wants desperately to go to high school & become a teacher until her mother's old-fashioned ideas about a woman's place threaten her dreams. Several reviewers compared it to books by Laura Ingalls Wilder

ACKER, HELEN - Minneapolis author of the Navajo children’s novel, Lee Natoni: Young Navajo

AGNEW, EDITH J. - author of the Navajo children’s novel, The Gray Eyes Family

AGUILAR, LIZ ANN BÁEZ - San Antonio, NM native, English teacher at San Antonio College, short story author & poet who is included in the children's poetry book, Love to Mamá: a Tribute to Mothers

ALARID, CARILYN RAE & MARILYN FAE MARKEL - twin sisters, NM- born & raised, Carilyn has a Master’s degree in Special Education & synthesizes classroom instruction to emphasize the importance of character development, while Marilyn is pursuing a Master’s degree in History & teaches about the increasing need to preserve our archaeological treasures in NM. 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

ALESHIRE, PETER - Arizona State University professor & author of several Apache works, including Reaping the Whirlwind: the Apache Wars

ALLEN, BETSY - children’s novelist of The Secret of Black Cat Gulch*, a mystery set in Taos. She also wrote under the name Betty Cavanna

ALLEN, PAULA GUNN - Cubero-born, Laguna/Sioux professor & co-author with PATRICIA CLARK SMITH, of the Native American collected biography, As Long As the Rivers Flow: the Stories of Nine Native Americans

ALLEN, TERESA R. - Missouri-raised, now Albuquerque poet & children’s author of Laura, the Bichon Frise, My New Home, an endearing story about how Laura is rescued & becomes a member of a new family. She overcomes fears & learns to trust her new owners.

ANAYA, RUDOLFO - Albuquerque poet & novelist of Farolitos for Abuelo, Farolitos of Christmas, My Land Sings: Stories From the Rio Grande, Roadrunner's Dance & The Santero's Miracle = El Milagro del Santero

ANCONA, GEORGE - Santa Fe award-winning author & photographer of many books, including Cowboys (about a New Mexico ranch family in Faywood, NM), Earth Daughter: Alicia of Acoma Pueblo, Fiesta USA, Let’s Dance! (which includes many photographs of New Mexico dancers), Pablo Remembers & Spanish Pioneers of the Southwest

ANNIXTER, JANE & PAUL - although not New Mexico authors, they wrote a novel, White Shell Horse, about a young Navajo man & the Long Walk to Bosque Redondo & back home

ANTONACCI, DR. ROBERT J. - Albuquerque author of several young adult sports technique books, including Baseball for Young Champions, Football for Young Champions & Tennis for Young Champions

ARMER, LAURA ADAMS - anthropologist, artist, photographer, film director & author of the Newbery Medal-winning Waterless Mountain, Dark Circle of Branches & The Trader's Children, about the Navajo & illustrated by the author’s photographs

ARMIJO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ALBUQUERQUE NM WIZ KIDS - Albuquerque child authors who’ve have written several novels, including Ernesto's Encounter With El Kookoóee, a South Valley bogeyman fantasy & La Llorona’s Diary, based on a folktale, set in Mexico; both filed under j Fiction Wiz

ARMSTRONG, NANCY M. - English-born, Utah author of Navajo Long Walk, about Kee, a Navajo boy & his life on the Long Walk to Ft. Defiance & back home to the Navajo Reservation

ARQUETTE, KERRY - Albuquerque-raised daughter of LOIS DUNCAN, author of Daddy Promises* & What Did You Do Today?. She lives with her family in Arvada, Colorado

AVERY, TERRY- Santa Fe author & illustrator of Moon Rabbit Builds a Fine House. This picture book is set in a Chaco Canyon-like place, about the lanky, silvery jackrabbit in the moon, who has long, wind-swept ears

AYER, ELEANOR H. - Frederick, Colorado editor & author of many nonfiction young adult titles, including, The Anasazi

BACA, ANA - Albuquerque's Bueno Foods author of the beautiful children's picture books, Benito’s Bizcochitos & Chiles for Benito, based partly on the stories her grandmother told her

BACA, MARIA - Albuquerque artist & illustrator of RUDOLFO ANAYA’s Maya’s Children: the Story of La Llorona

BACIGALUPA, DREW - Santa Fe author of the Hispanic New Mexican Christmas tale: A Good and Perfect Gift

BAILEY, FLORA L. - children’s novelist of Between the Four Mountains & Summer at Yellow Singer's, both about the Navajos

BAKER, BETTY LOU - Arizona winner of two Western Heritage Awards, two Spur Awards, from the Western Writers of America, & children’s author of The Dunderhead War; a Novel*, about Doniphan's Expedition, in the 1840s & A Stranger and Afraid, about Coronado in Pecos

BALDWIN, GORDON C. - Arizona archeologist & author of The Apache Indians: Raiders of the Southwest

BALDWIN, LOUIS - Sandia National Laboratories writer, supervisor, English professor & author of Intruders Within: Pueblo Resistance to Spanish Rule & the Revolt of 1680, about the Pueblo Revolt

BALL, ZACHARY - Roswell author of the children's dog novel, Bristle Face, set in Mississippi

BANNON, LAURA - Michigan author & illustrator of the Navajo children’s novel, Hop-High, the Goat

BARKER, S. OMAR - high school teacher of English & Spanish in Tularosa & Santa Rosa, university teacher, a member of the New Mexico Legislature, operated a small ranch, U.S. forest ranger, trombonist in Doc Patterson's Cowboy Band & award-winning contributor to the “Bret King of Rimrock Ranch" series, under the pseudonym DAN SCOTT: The Mystery at Blizzard Mesa*, The Mystery of Bandit Gulch*, The Mystery of Ghost Canyon*, The Mystery of Rawhide Gap*, The Range Rodeo Mystery*, The Secret of Fort Pioneer*, & The Secret of Hermit's Peak* (all set in NM)

BARRAZA, MANUEL FRED - State Library bookmobile driver who was born in Silver City, raised in Fort Bayard, who now lives in Arenas Valley, NM; & is the illustrator of The Cactus Wren and the Cholla=El Reyezuelo y La Cholla

BARRON, REX - Albuquerque painter, guitar player, film animator & illustrator of Eggbert, the Slightly Cracked Egg & Irma the Flying Bowling Ball. He also wrote & illustrated the nonfiction book, Showdown at the Food Pyramid.

BARRY, TOM - Albuquerque co-author of the Navajo story, Red Ribbons For Emma

BASON, LILLIAN - Albuquerque author of a children's nonfiction book, Spiders*

BEGAY, HARRISON - Navajo painter who lives part-time in Santa Fe, author & illustrator of the Navajo children’s novel, A Hogan for the Bluebird by ANN CROWELL

BEGAY, SHONTO - Navajo artist & author of The Boy Who Dreamed of an Acorn, Ma’ii and Cousin Horned Toad: a Traditional Navajo Story; & illustrator of RAMONA MAHER’s Alice Yazzie's Year & Mud Pony: a Traditional Skidi Pawnee Tale retold by Caron Lee Cohen

BEGAYE, LISA SHOOK - actress & author of Building a Bridge, a story about a Navajo child & an Anglo child who learn that when building a bridge of colored blocks, it doesn’t matter what color the blocks are, but that together they make a beautiful bridge

BENTLEY, KAREN - Albuquerque young adult novelist of Horse of Seven Moons, set in 1880s southwestern NM, about a pinto owned by a young Apache man & a fourteen year old Anglo girl at the same time, & author of a biography of The Unsers

BERG, CAMI - Santa Fe author of several children’s books: D Is for Dolphin* & Sky Bear*

BERGTHOLD, LOIS - Albuquerque artist for the Chile Pepper magazine & co-author of Cody Coyote Cooks!

BIAL, RAYMOND - Urbana, Illinois librarian & children’s authors of many titles, including The Apache & The Pueblo, which discuss the history, culture, beliefs, changing ways, & notable leaders of the two peoples

BIESTERVELD, BETTY - Phoenix author of the Navajo children’s novel, Six Days From Sunday

BLACKSHEEP, BEVERLY - Navajo author of the bilingual counting book, Baby Learns to Count = Awéé Ánéelté Yótta Yhootaah

BLAKEMORE, SALLY - Santa Fe co-author of I Really Want a Dog, & illustrator of Algebra Survival Guide: a Conversational Handbook for the Thoroughly Befuddled by JOSH RAPPAPORT, Frogs by SARAH LOVETT, Kidding Around Boston: a Young Person's Guide by Helen Byers, Kidding Around Chicago: a Young Person's Guide by Lauren Davis, Kidding Around New York City: a Young Person's Guide by SARAH LOVETT, Kidding Around Santa Fe: a Young Person's Guide by Susan York, Lucy's Journey to the Wild West: a True Story by CHARLOTTE PIEPMEIER, Primates by SARAH LOVETT, Reptiles by SARAH LOVETT, & Spiders by SARAH LOVETT.

BLEEKER, SONIA - Russian-born editor & children’s author of The Navajo: Herders, Weavers, & Silversmiths & The Pueblo Indians, Farmers of the Rio Grande. She was married to the children’s author, Herbert S. Zim

BLOOD, CHARLES L. - author of the picture book The Goat in the Rug, about Geraldine, a goat, who describes each step as she & her Navajo friend make a rug, from the hair clipping & carding to the dyeing & weaving

BLUME, JUDY - very popular, former Los Alamos & Santa Fe author of many titles, including Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret, Blubber, Deenie, Freckle Juice, Fudge-a-Mania, It’s Not the End of the World, Super Fudge, Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing & Tiger Eyes (set in Los Alamos)

BOGRAD, LARRY - although not a New Mexico author, he wrote a very good young adult novel set in Los Alamos during the development of the atomic bomb: Los Alamos Light

BOYCE, GEORGE A. - Santa Fe science & math teacher, a director of several Navajo schools, superintendent of Intermountain Indian School, developed & served as superintendent of a program for the Institute of American Indian Arts & author of the 1974 short story collection, Some People Are Indians

BRADLEY, DAVID - Santa Fe-based Chippewa artist & illustrator of JOAN WEISMAN’s Pueblo picture book, The Storyteller

BRAGG, BEA - Albuquerque author of The Very First Thanksgiving, a story about the Oñate Expedition to New Mexico

BRANDEIS, MADELINE - children’s writer of the 1930’s novel, Little Rose of the Mesa*, which is set in Santa Fe

BRANDENBURG, CLAIRE - native New Mexican author, award winning artist & Taos illustrator of ELSIE KARR KREISCHER's picture book, Bigger Than a Button. For more information, please see the NM Index.

BREATHED, BERKE - a very funny cartoonist who lived briefly in Albuquerque. He's the author of the picture book, Goodnight Opus & the holiday story, Red Ranger Came Calling: a Guaranteed True Christmas Story (neither is set in NM)

BRECKENRIDGE, GERALD - children’s writer of the 1920’s novel, The Radio Boys on the Mexican Border*, set in NM

BRIGHT, ROBERT - Taos author who wrote many picture book ghost stories about Georgie

BROIDA, MARIAN - Seattle artist & award-winning author of Projects About American Indians of the Southwest, about the ancient Pueblo people, the Navajo, the Hopi & the Zuni

BROWN, DOROTHY LOTHROP & MARGUERITE BUTTERFIELD - co-authors of the Pueblo children’s novel, Morning Star

BROWN, LESLEY MCDOUGALL - children’s novelist of The Diary of Figaro, Taos, New Mexico*

BROWN, MARJORIE WEBBER - author of the 1938 children’s novel, Pueblo Playmates

BROWN, MARY VIRGINIA - Alamogordo teacher & author of Thirteenth Summer*

BRUCHAC, JOSEPH - NY award-winning, prolific author of among others, the young adult novel, Code Talker: a Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two

BRYANT, KATHLEEN - Arizona author of Kokopelli's Gift, illustrated by NM native, MICHELLE TSOSIE SISNEROS

BRYER, DIANA - Santa Cruz painter, sculptress, & illustrator of Abuelita's Secret Matzahs, Cleo & the Coyote & Girl Who Loved Coyotes, Stories of the Southwest

BUCHANAN, KEN - Arizona author of the beautiful picture book, This House is Made of Mud, about building a contemporary adobe house, in the desert, illustrated by LIBBA TRACY

BUCHANAN, WILLIAM J. - Albuquerque's award-winning author of Diablo, the Devil Steer, about David Baca, an Isleta Pueblo 15-year-old, whose father is gored by Diablo, a wild bull that is terrorizing the ranchers & pueblos south of Albuquerque. David and his Anglo friend, Steven set out for revenge. This moving & unforgettable young adult novel, is the tale of two boys becoming men who find friendship & courage across racial boundaries

BUFF, MARY & CONRAD - although not New Mexicans, she wrote & he illustrated several novels set in New Mexico: Dancing Cloud, the Navajo Boy & Hah-Nee of the Cliff-Dwellers

BULLA, CLYDE ROBERT - beloved California children’s writer of many stories, including Eagle Feather, a Navajo story & Conquista!, about how a young Native American man first encountered horses, during Coronado’s explorations

BUNDY, KIM - Roswell author of Aiko*, her retelling of the Japanese crane legend. For more information, please see KIMBERLY RICHARDS

BURBY, LIZA N. - Huntington Station, NY award-winning author who has written for newspapers, magazines & book publishers. She also has written 39 nonfiction books for elementary through high school readers, including The Pueblo Indians

BURKS, BRIAN - Tularosa rancher & award-winning author of excellent western titles, including: Runs With Horses, about a young man who trains to become a warrior with Geronimo; Walks Alone, after a surprise attack leaves many dead, a 15-year-old Apache girl struggles to survive & rejoin her people; & Wrango; young George McJunkin leaves home & joins a cattle drive along the Chisholm Trail, where he experiences the hardships of being a Black cowboy. For more information on his adult titles, see the NM Authors list.

BURNS, DIANE - Native American poet, painter (she went to school in Santa Fe) & children’s nonfiction author of Cranberries: Fruit of the Bogs, Elephants Never Forget, Snakes Alive! & Sugaring Season

BURROUGHS, JEAN M. - Portales’ wife of a former NM governor & children's author of Children of Destiny: True Adventures of Three Cultures, 12 short stories based on events in NM's history from 1590 to statehood in 1912

BURT, OLIVE W. - author of Cloud Girl, about a Navajo child

BUTTERFIELD, MARGUERITE & DOROTHY LOTHROP BROWN - co-authors of the Pueblo children’s novel, Morning Star

BYRNES, PATRICIA - Albuquerque co-author of Southwestern Arts and Crafts Projects

CAMPBELL, CAMILLA - Fort Worth elementary teacher, journalist & children’s writer of Coronado and His Captains*, a historical novel, set partially in NM

CANNON, A.E. - Salt Lake City author of a contemporary urban Navajo coming-of-age, young adult novel, The Shadow Brothers

CANNON, CORNELIA JAMES - 1930s New Hampshire children’s writer of The Fight for the Pueblo; the Story of Onate's Expedition & the Founding of Santa Fe, 1598-1609*, Lazaro in the Pueblos; the Story of Antonio de Espejo's Expedition Into New Mexico*, The Pueblo Boy; a Story of Coronado's Search for the Seven Cities of Cibola, & The Pueblo Girl; a Story of Coronado on the Rio Grande* (the sequel to: The Pueblo Boy)

CAREY, M. V. (MARY VIRGINA) - California children’s mystery author of many titles, including Alfred Hitchcock & the Three Investigators in The Mystery of Death Trap Mine* (Alfred Hitchcock Mystery series, 24), which is set in NM

CAREY, VALERIE SCHO - Ann Arbor, Michigan author of Quail Song: a Pueblo Indian Tale, which is a retelling of a traditional Pueblo tale when Quail outwits a persistent Coyote

CARLSON, VADA - Winslow, Arizona journalist, editor & co-author with GARY WITHERSOON of Black Mountain Boy: a Story of the Boyhood of John Honie, a story about a Navajo medicine man, which is illustrated by ANDY TSINAJINNIE

CARROLL, THOMAS - Santa Fe political consultant, speechwriter, newspaper reporter, & author of a fantasy novel, involving a Navajo seer & a young man who is saved by him, from kids at school, in The Colony

CARSON, WILLIAM C. - Santa Fe author who first came to NM as a boy in the 1930s, & who wrote the young person’s novel-based-on-history, Peter Becomes a Trail Man: The Story of a Boy's Journey on the Santa Fe Trail, an exciting story that also provides an accurate picture of the era

CASTAÑEDA DE NAJERA, PEDRO - Conquistador, foot soldier, & author of Riding With Coronado

CATA, REGINA ALBARADO DE - Hispanic woman who married a 3-time San Juan Pueblo governor, she was a storyteller, doll maker, potter & author of the children’s stories, The Foolish Ant: (And Others) & Juan, the Champ illustrated by HELEN HARDIN. She also told the story which became THELMA CLARKE’s Runaway Boy: Raton Jemez

CHANIN, MICHAEL - although not a New Mexico author, he wrote a beautiful picture book about a small Navajo girl & her grandmother, & how together they made a Chief’s Blanket

CHARNAS, SUZY MCKEE - Albuquerque winner of the science fiction Hugo & Nebula Awards; & author of vampire, science fiction, & fantasy novels, including Bronze King, The Kingdom of Kevin Malone & The Silver Glove

CHAVARRIA-CHAIREZ, BECKY - former Texas TV broadcaster, now Albuquerrque children's author whose bilingual stories include Magda's Tortillas/Las Tortillas de Magda & Magda's Piñata Magic/Magda y la Piñata Mágica. The colorful stories about the 7-year-old Magda Madrigal were written to reflect who Hispanic children are in America.

CHAVEZ, ANGELICO - beloved Santa Fe priest, painter, historian, poet & author of The Song of Francis, about St. Francis of Assisi

CHINO, VELMA - Acoma Pueblo mother of Conroy Chino, an Albuquerque newscaster; she’s a potter of traditional pottery & storytellers, & author of Curious Boys* & Boy and the Turtle*

CLAIR, DONNA - Taos artist & illustrator of Carlos, Light the Farolito

CLARK, ANN NOLAN - Las Vegas-born, later Santa Fe teacher, one of New Mexico's first children's authors, Newbery Medal winner of Secret of the Andes, & author of the Caldecott Honor winning, In My Mother’s House (a young Tewa boy’s life at Tesuque Pueblo). She wrote many other books, such as Little Boy With Three Names: Stories of Taos Pueblo, Little Herder In Autumn (about a Taos boy), Little Navajo Bluebird, Medicine Man's Daughter (about a Navajo girl), Paco’s Miracle (set in Taos), Santiago (set in Guatemala), A Santo for Pasqualita (set in Cundiyo), Summer is for Growing (set in Taos), Sun Journey: a Story of Zuni Pueblo, Tia Maria’s Garden & Who Wants to Be a Prairie Dog?. In My Mother's House & Young Hunter of Picuris, were both illustrated by Caldecott Medal Honor winner VELINO HERRERA, Zia Pueblo painter & illustrator

CLARK, JOAN - pseudonym of Mildred Benson, winner of the Agatha Award for Lifetime Achievement, Malice Domestic, Edgar Allan Poe Special Award, from the Mystery Writers of America, pilot, newswoman & children’s writer of more than 100 books, including Connie Carl at Rainbow Ranch*, set in NM

CLARKE, THELMA - author of the San Juan Pueblo Indian story, Runaway Boy: Raton Jemez, illustrated by HELEN HARDIN

CLEVELAND, FRED - Navajo artist, educated at the Albuquerque Indian School, & illustrator of MAURINE GRAMMER’s mystery, The Navajo Brothers and the Stolen Herd, set on the Alamo Band Indian Reservation

CLYMER, ELEANOR - New York author who wrote The Spider, the Cave, and the Pottery Bowl, about a family in a pueblo very like Acoma

COATSWORTH, ELIZABETH - Newbery Award-winning author of many titles, including The Cave, a Navajo story

COERR, ELEANOR - Albuquerque author of many interesting & different children's books, including Big Balloon Race, Josefina Story Quilt, & Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes

COOPER, MICHAEL J. - Albuquerque's own Los Angeles Laker & author of No Slack, his book about basketball techniques

COOPER, URSULA - Albuquerque Public Schools retired teacher & author of the appealing children’s nature book, Mini Walks on the Mesa

CORDOVA, AMY - Taos author of Abuelita’s Heart, a children’s picture book, & illustrator of RUDOLFO ANAYA’s My Land Sings: Stories From the Rio Grande & The Santero's Miracle = El Milagro Del Santero; & the picture book, El Tallador de Sueños by Diana Cohn

COULTER, CATHERINE - Jemez Springs physician & co-author with her sister, brother & mother of Winging It: a Beginner's Guide to Birds of the Southwest with illustrations by JENNIFER OWINGS DEWEY. CYNTHIA COULTER, a physician, lives in Omaha, Nebraska, JAMES COULTER is a self-employed businessman who lives in Placitas. VIVIAN COULTER, the mother of the other three authors is a retired Albuquerque science teacher & author of science textbooks.

COWING, SHEILA - Santa Fe editor of ShoeTree, a children’s literary magazine & author of the interesting book, Searches In the American Desert

COX, M. B. - children’s author of the 1896 story, Left on the Prairie*, set in NM

CRAWFORD, PHYLLIS - children’s author of the 1940 novel, Walking on Gold*, set on the Santa Fe Trail

CREEL, ANN HOWARD - award-winning Denver author who works part time as a hospice nurse & nurse educator & novelist of, among others, Water at the Blue Earth: in 1854, 12-year-old Wren & her parents travel to her father's new medical post, Fort Massachusetts, in NM Territory (the San Luis Valley was a part of Territorial NM at that time). Unsure around other children, Wren gradually becomes friends with a blind Ute boy sent to the fort's school to learn English. Together, the friends explore the territory, learning about one another in the process

CROTTY, MARILYN - award-winning Albuquerque author of inspirational short stories & articles for children

CROWDER, JACK - Bernalillo author of the bilingual Navajo folk stories: Stephannie and the Coyote & Tonibah and the Rainbow

CROWELL, ANN - author of the Navajo children’s novel, A Hogan for the Bluebird illustrated by HARRISON BEGAY, a Navajo painter who lives part-time in Santa Fe

CRUM, SALLY - Colorado archaeologist & author of Race to the Moonrise: an Ancient Journey, a story about Long Legs & his sister Little Basket, who live in northern Mexico in about 1200 A.D., & make a long & dangerous journey through NM to save the people in the area surrounding Chimney Rock

CRUISE, BETH - author of Silver Spurs* (Saved by the Bell series #13): the "Saved by the Bell" gang heads out to a NM dude ranch for a weekend of fun that is soon complicated by Zack's being mistaken for a rodeo star & Jessie's suspicions of the ranch owner's past

CURTIS, CHARLES ALBERT - children’s author of the 1904 novel, Captured by the Navajos*, set in NM

CUSHMAN, DOUG - former NM author & illustrator of children's books, including the Aunt Eater series & the Mouse and Mole series

D'APICE, MARY - teacher in Japan, Guatemala, Boston; editor & the author of several titles, including The Pueblo

DAVIES, JACQUELINE - Boston-area author of Where the Ground Meets the Sky, a young adult novel about a girl uprooted from her East Coast life, when she & her dad come to NM to work on the Manhattan Project

DAVIS, JULIA - Associated Press, NYC reporter, children's agent for State Charities Aid Association, & children’s historical romance author of Eagle on the Sun* & Ride With the Eagle; the Expedition of the First Missouri in the War with Mexico*

DAVIS, LAVINIA RIKER - children’s author of the 1950’s novel, Janey's Fortune*, set in Albuquerque

DE PAOLA, TOMIE - NY author & illustrator of many loved picture books, including the NM Christmas book, The Night of Las Posadas

DE VORE, JEFFREY - studied at the School of Visual Arts in New York & now lives in Santa Fe. He is the illustrator of White Crow, & the son of MAGGIE DE VORE.

DE VORE, MARGARET A. (MAGGIE) - has been writing for over 30 years. Maggie returned to Cochiti Lake from 22 years in England & 7 years in Japan. Living among the mesas & mountains near the Rio Grande inspired her to write the story, White Crow, for children of all ages.

DEAN, CAROLEE - Albuquerque author of a young adult novel, Comfort, about 14-year-old Kenny who fantasizes about his escape from his hometown of Comfort, Texas, following his alcoholic father's release from prison.           

DEAN, NELL MARR - Tulsa-born, now California librarian, editor & children’s author of Desert Doctor*, set in NM

DEERING, FREMONT B. - children’s author of the 1911 story, The Border Boys on the Trail*, set in NM

DEHUFF, ELIZABETH - Santa Fe author of the NM children’s novels, Blue-Wings-Flying*, Swift Eagle of the Rio Grande* & Little-Boy-Dance*, set in Taos

DEMING, THERESE O. - author with her illustrator husband, Edwin W. Deming of the 1899 children’s novel, Indian Child Life, the 1936 children’s novel, Indians of the Pueblos: a Story of Indian Life, & the 1938 nonfiction title, Cosel with Geronimo on His Last Raid: the Story of an Indian Boy

DENKER, NANCY - author & illustrator of Up, Up, & Away: a Balloon Trip Over Albuquerque

DEWEY, JENNIFER (OWINGS) - Western Writers of America Spur Award-winning Santa Fe illustrator & author of many books on natural history, including, All About Arrowheads and Spearpoints, Bedbugs In Our House, A Coloring Book of Prehistoric Swimmers & Flyers of the Southwest, Mud Matters, Night and Day in the Desert, Paisano, the Roadrunner, Rattlesnake Dance: True Tales, Mysteries, & Rattlesnake Ceremonies, Stories on Stone : Rock Art, Images from the Ancient Ones, Wildlife Rescue: the Work of Dr. Kathleen Ramsay, & Zozobra: Old Man Gloom. Her fiction includes an autobiographical novel, Navajo Summer, Once I Knew a Spider, & the excellent short story collection, Family Ties: Raising Wild Babies. She’s also written her own story about growing up in northern New Mexico, Cowgirl Dreams: a Western Childhood

DIAMOND, LYNELL - NM native author & illustrator of Let’s Discover Bryce Canyon and Zion National Parks* & New Mexico for Kids*

DIXON, FRANKLIN W. - author of the Hardy Boys series, wrote The Sign of the Crooked Arrow (#28 in the series), a mystery set on the Hardy boys’ cousin’s NM cattle ranch, the Crowhead Ranch set near El Paso, & in Santa Fe; & The Shattered Helmet (#52 in the series), set partially in Santa Fe & Taos

DOBKINS, LUCY M. - Albuquerque children's author of Daddy, There's a Hippo in the Grapes

DOHERTY, KATHERINE & CRAIG - former Zuni residents & authors of several books on Native Americans, including Apaches and Navajos, Chickasaw, The Ute & The Zunis

DOLCH, EDWARD W. & MARGUERITE P. - co-authors of Pueblo Stories in Basic Vocabulary - j 398.2 & Navaho Stories: in Basic Vocabulary - j 398.2

DOUGHERTY, FLO HOSA - Las Cruces award-winning artist & illustrator of The Man Who Set the Town Dancing = El Hombre que Puso a Bailar a Todo el Pueblo

DRESSMAN, JOHN - author of On the Cliffs of Acoma: a Pueblo Story With a Short History of Acoma, a bilingual novel

DRUCKER, MALKA - award-winning Santa Fe rabbi & author of Celebrating Life: Jewish Rites of Passage, Eliezer Ben Yehuda, the Father of Modern Hebrew, Family Treasury of Jewish Holidays, Frida Kahlo: Torment & Triumph in Her Life & Art, George Foster Story, Grandma's Latkes, Hanukkah: Eight Nights, Eight Lights, Jacob's Rescue: a Holocaust Story, Jewish Holidays Book, Passover, a Season of Freedom, Rosh Hashanah & Yom Kippur: Sweet Beginnings, Sea Monster's Secret, Series TV: How a Television Show is Made, Shabbat: a Peaceful Island, & Sukkot, a Time to Rejoice

DRUMMOND, J.K. - an Albuquerque native, award-winning watercolor painter & illustrator of the children’s book, Sophie’s Castle: a Poem About Friendship & Faith in Tomorrow, by Heather F. Levine. One day at the beach, Sophie builds a fabulous sand castle, complete with lofty towers & a moat. But when ocean tides wash closer, she has to face the loss of her castle. With help from a new friend, Sophie finds the courage to start over again in this charming poem about friendship & faith in tomorrow. Drummond’s a 2nd- generation painter who learned to paint from her father, David Drummond. She & her husband live in Albuquerque

DUNCAN, LOIS - world-famous Albuquerque author of many titles, including the young adult suspense novels, set in Albuquerque: I Know What You Did Last Summer, Killing Mr. Griffin (a mystery set at Albuquerque’s Del Norte High), Ransom (a mystery), Season of the Two-Heart* (about Pueblo Indians), Summer of Fear & Third Eye. She has 3 other young adult novels set in NM: Stranger With My Face (horror novel set partially in NM, involving Navajo astral projection), They Never Came Home (set in Las Cruces) & Twisted Window (set partially in fictional Rock Springs, NM). Some of her children’s books include: From Spring to Spring: Poems & Photographs (her photographs are of her family, mostly set in NM), Hotel for Dogs (set partially in Albuquerque) & The Magic of Spider Woman (set on the Navajo Reservation). Her autobiography is Chapters: My Growth As a Writer; & she also edited Night Terrors: Stories of Shadow & Substance, & On the Edge: Stories at the Brink; & edited & is included in Trapped! Cages of Mind & Body. Her novels which are not set in NM, include: Daughters of Eve, Don’t Look Behind You, Down a Dark Hall, Gallows Hill & Gift of Magic (which is a fictional tale about her parents, aunts & uncle). She’s also the mother of KERRY ARQUETTE.

DURANT, PENNY RAIFE - Albuquerque-born & raised teacher, director of the Calico Butterfly Preschool, & author of Bubblemania, Make a Splash: Science Activities With Liquids, Prize-Winning Science Fair Projects; & an award-winning novel, When Heroes Die, set in Albuquerque

DYLAN, BOB - Minnesota-born songwriter of more than 300 songs, singer, musician, recording artist, poet, performer & author of the picture book, Man Gave Names to All the Animals. He lived briefly in Gallup, as a young man

EAGLE WALKING TURTLE - NM author & illustrator of Full Moon Stories, about the Arapaho

EBOCH, CHRIS - Albuquerque author of the Mayan story of a 9^th century Guatemalan girl heroine, in The Well of Sacrifice

EDLINGER-KUNZE, CATHRINE - NM illustrator who owned an art school for children & illustrated children’s books in Germany

ELLISON, SUZANNE PIERSON - Ventura, CA author of Best of Enemies, an action-filled historical novel about the relationship between a wealthy Mexican boy, a Texan Confederate troop & a Navajo slave girl, during the Civil War & The Last Warrior, about Solito, a teenage Chiricahua Apache who tries to find his own place in a changing world

ELTING, MARY & MICHAEL FOLSOM - mother/son authors of The Secret Story of Pueblo Bonito, about Chaco Canyon; they are also the wife & son of FRANKLIN FOLSOM

EMBRY, MARGARET - long-time Los Alamos resident & author of the beloved stories, The Blue-Nosed Witch, My Name is Lion, about a young Navajo man & his unhappiness & confusion with life at a government school in Albuquerque, Peg-Leg Willy, a Thanksgiving story set in northern NM & Shádí, a story about a Navajo family

EMERSON, ANTHONY CHEE - Navajo artist from Kirtland, NM, manager of a painting company, director of Emerson Gallery in Farmington, & illustrator of the children's picture books, How the Rattlesnake Got It's Rattle* & Songs of Shiprock Fair

EMERY, NEDRA - former teacher on the Navajo Reservation & author of 2 bilingual Navajo/English folktales: Ji Doo Tlee=Day and Night & Tazhii doo Yeiilbahi=Turkey and Giant

ENGLAND, TAMARA - author of Josefina's Cookbook: a Peek at Dining in the Past With Meals You Can Cook Today - j 641.5972 England, which gives information about the foods, cooking, kitchens, & dining customs of the people who lived in northern New Mexico in 1824 & whose culture combined Spanish, Mexican, & Native American traditions. For more information on Josefina, see VALERIE TRIPP

ERDOES, RICHARD - Santa Fe & New York City author of many books, including: Native Americans: the Pueblos, The Rain Dance People: the Pueblo Indians, Sound of Flutes and Other Indian Legends & Sun Dance People: the Plains Indians, Their Past and Present

ERNO, RICHARD B. - Tempe, Arizona professor of English & author of Billy Lightfoot, a Navajo story

EVANS, DILYS - English-born, Santa Fe author, painter & compiler of Faeries, Trolls, & Goblins Galore & Weird Pet Poems

EVANS, MAX - famous Albuquerque screenwriter & author of western novels, including My Pardner, about a young cowboy, set in Oklahoma

FEAGUE, MILDRED H. - elementary teacher, Gallup counselor, & author of the Navajo children’s Christmas picture book, The Little Indian and the Angel

FENN, GEORGE MANVILLE - children’s author of the 1880s & 1890s novels, In the Wilds of New Mexico & The Silver Canon; a Tale of the Western Plains*

Fiestas in Our Mountain Villages - All the Children in All the Mountain Schools; the Villages, Escabasa, Juan Tomas, Cedro, Carnuel, Canoncito, Sedillo, Tijeras, San Antonito, Chilili, San Antonio - j Reference 394.2 Fiestas 1971

FINCH, THERESE A. - former Albuquerque writer & co-author of The Book of Secrets, which is set in Mexico

FINLAY, ALICE SULLIVAN - Albuquerque children's author of award winning stories, including the paperbacks: A Gift From the Sea for Laura Lee*, Laura Lee and the Little Pine Tree*, Laura Lee and the Monster Sea*, & A Victory for Laura Lee*

FINLEY, MARY PEACE - award-winning Manitou Springs, CO author of several novels for young people, including the series starring 15 year-old Julio Montoya, from Taos, & his adventures along the Santa Fe Trail:  Soaring Eagle, White Grizzly, & Meadow Lark (in order)

FISHER, LEONARD EVERETT - Westport, Connecticut prolific children’s author & illustrator of fiction & and nonfiction books, such as Anasazi. He’s published more than 80 books & illustrated over 160 by other authors such as Washington Irving, Madeleine L'Engle, Myra Cohn Livingston, & Eric Kimmel.

FITZHUGH, PERCY KEESE - children’s writer of books "officially approved" by the Boy Scouts of America, including the 1920s story, Out West with Westy Martin; Four Complete Adventure Books for Boys in One Big Volume*, which includes Westy Martin on the Santa Fe Trail*

FITZPATRICK, GEORGE - former editor of New Mexico Magazine, & author of the excellent book: New Mexico for Young People

FLANAGAN, ALICE - former NM, now Chicago teacher & author of, among other books: Desert Birds, Night Birds, The Pueblos, Songbirds, Talking Birds, The Utes, & The Zunis

FLEISCHMAN, PAUL - part-time Albuquerque author, UNM graduate, Newbery Prize-winner, son of SID, & 1994 Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction winner, for his excellent children's novels & poetry, including Bull Run, A Fate Totally Worse Than Death, Graven Images, Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices & Seedfolks

FLEISCHMAN, SID - Santa Monica, California Newbery Award-winning children's author; father of PAUL & author of the mystery Disappearing Act, which is set partly in Albuquerque

FOLSOM, FRANKLIN - Boulder, Colorado, educator, prolific author of children's books, many written with his wife, MARY ELTING, including Black Cowboy: the Life & Legend of George McJunkin, Indian Uprising on the Rio Grande: the Pueblo Revolt of 1680, Red Power on the Rio Grande; the Native American Revolution of 1680 & Sand Dune Pony: a Troy Nesbit Mystery (set in the Great Sand Dunes, of Colorado’s San Luis Valley)

FOSTER, JOSEPH O'KANE - Taos children’s author of Stephana*, which is set in Albuquerque

FOWLER, FRANK - children’s author of the 1914 story, The Broncho Rider Boys Along the Border; or, The Hidden Treasure of the Zuni Medicine Man*, a western, set in Zuni

FRANKLIN, ERNEST - Gallup Navajo award-winning cowboy artist & illustrator of Buster Mesquite's Cowboy Band by TONY HILLERMAN. He’s also a rodeo performer, a Vietnam War veteran & art teacher.

FRANKLIN, GEORGE CORY - prolific writer, born in Oswego, Kansas, who lived in California, & children’s novelist of among others, Pedro, the Road Runner, Pioneer Horse, Trails West & Wild Horses of the Rio Grande (all illustrated by WILLIAM MOYERS)

FRANKLIN, KRISTINE L. - Tacoma, Washington-born & raised author of the Navajo children’s novel, El Niño Pastor & its English version, The Shepherd Boy, about a boy & his two dogs who return to rescue a small ewe lamb who was left behind after they bring the rest of the flock home

FRENCH, MICHAEL - Santa Fe author of children’s & adult novels, including Indiana Jones & the Temple of Doom: the Storybook based on the Movie

GALLENKAMP, CHARLES - Santa Fe archaeologist & co-author of The Mystery of the Ancient Maya

GALLICO, PAUL - award-winning author of 40 books for children & adults, including The Boy Who Invented the Bubble Gun*, a children’s novel, set in NM

GANTOS, JACK - former Albuquerque, now Santa Fe author of the many, funny cat picture books starring Rotten Ralph & a finalist for the National Book Award for Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key

GARAWAY, MARGARET KAHN - Tucson teacher on the Navajo Reservation, publisher & author of Ashkii (Ash-Key) & His Grandfather, Dezbah & the Dancing Tumbleweeds, a Navajo ballet story & The Old Hogan, a Navajo picture book

GARCIA, BELINDA - California native & Albuquerque author of the children’s techno fiction title, Alyson’s Adventures in Computer Land*. She’s a computer expert, software developer, adult novelist & is a mathematician.

GARLAND, SHERRY - Texas author of many young adult novels, including Indio about 13-year-old Ipa who struggles to survive as the Spanish begin their conquest of the native people

GARVIN, JAMES R. - Menaul School’s president & author of 10 children’s books

GATES, VIOLA R. - Montrose, CO poet, essayist & historical novelist of Journey to Center Place, about the Anasazi, set in Mesa Verde & Chaco Canyon

GESSNER, LYNNE - Scottsdale former medical secretary, teacher of creative writing & children’s writer of, among others, Malcolm Yucca Seed & Navajo Slave

GILLITTE, J. LYNETT - curator of the Ruth Hall Museum of Paleontology at Ghost Ranch, in Abiquiu, & author of Dinosaur Ghosts: the Mystery of Coelophysis & Search for Seismosaurus

GINTZLER, A.S. - Brooklyn-born & raised, now NM poet & author of Rough and Ready Cowboys, Rough and Ready Homesteaders, Rough and Ready Outlaws and Lawmen & Rough and Ready Prospectors

GLASS, ANDREW - New York author of the tall-tale about Kit Carson, in A Right Fine Life: Kit Carson on the Santa Fe Trail

GOLDFRAP, CHARLES H. - children’s writer of The Border Boys on the Trail*, set in NM

GOLDMAN, LISA - award-winning Tucson counselor & author of Amadito and Spider Woman, illustrated by AMADO M. PENA, JR., about a young boy who is made fun of by a classmate & is unsure how to deal with his feelings. Each of his family members offers different advice about how to protect himself. After walking in the desert with his grandmother & listening to her parables, he learns how to keep his heart open & not be afraid of his feelings

GONZALES, EDWARD - Albuquerque North Valley-raised, now Santa Fe painter & illustrator of Farolitos for Abuelo & The Farolitos of Christmas

GRAMMER, MAURINE - Albuquerque teacher & novelist of the Navajo mystery, set on the Alamo Band Indian Reservation, Navajo Brothers and the Stolen Herd, illustrated by FRED CLEVELAND

GREEN, TIMOTHY - teacher & artist who lives on the Navajo Reservation with his family, & author of the beautiful picture book, Mystery of Navajo Moon & also a mystery involving Navajo skinwalkers: Twilight Boy

GREGER, C. SHANA - Bernalillo illustrator of the novel, The Boy Who Spoke Colors; adapter & illustrator of Cry of the Benubird: an Egyptian Creation Story & Fifth and Final Sun: an Ancient Aztec Myth

GREGG, ANDY, SR. - Albuquerque author of the Algonquian legend: Great Rabbit and the Long-Tailed Wildcat

GUCK, DOROTHY - Carrizozo Forest Service employee, junior high school teacher, postal clerk, & children’s writer of Danger Rides the Forest*, set in NM

GUGGENHEIM, JAENET - former ballet dancer, magazine reviewer, a script writer, & now Santa Fe author & illustrator of the picture book, Herman & Poppy Go Singing in the Hills & illustrator of Grow Grow Grow*

GUNTER, ARCHIBALD CLAVERING - children’s author of the 1888 novel, Miss Nobody of Nowhere*, set in NM

GUSTAFSON, JOHN R. - public information specialist at Los Alamos National Lab, & author of several interesting books: Planets, Moons and Meteors & Stars, Clusters, and Galaxies

GUSTAFSON, SARAH - author of the children’s nonfiction book, Exploring Bandelier National Monument

GUZZO, SANDRA E. - Wyoming author of Miguel and the Santero, a picture book set in northern New Mexico

HALEY, GAIL E. - North Carolina Caldecott Medal-winning children’s author & illustrator of many titles, including Kokopelli: Drum in Belly

HALL, SARABEL - Fort Sumner-born & raised author of the children’s picture story, Hannah Hummingbird

HALL-QUEST, OLGA - Western Writers of America award-winning Texas-born author of Conquistadors & Pueblos: the Story of the American Southwest, 1540-1848, about the exploration & colonization of the Southwest, which describes the way of life under Indian, Spanish, Mexican, & Anglo dominance, with an emphasis on the history of Santa Fe

HALLADAY, ANNE M. - Denver author of an excellent story set in a trading post between San Ildefonso & El Prado: Secrets at White Owl

HAMILTON, KERSTEN (K.R.) - Albuquerque author of the children’s natural history book, The Butterfly Book

HARDIN, HELEN - famous Albuquerque Santa Clara Pueblo acrylic artist. Her mother was the famous Pueblo artist, Pablita Velarde. She was also the illustrator of the children’s stories Juan, the Champ by REGINA ALBARADO DE CATA & Runaway Boy: Raton Jemez by THELMA CLARKE (see it for more information on Hardin). She died in 1984 of cancer. She’s also the aunt of MICHELLE TSOSIE SISNEROS

HARMAN, B. H. MABEL - children’s author of Redwall*, a story about Indians in NM

HARRAH, MADGE - Albuquerque playwright, artist & illustrator of PAULA G. PAUL’s Geronimo Chino, & author of the prize-winning historical novel Honey Girl (about the famous Las Cruces resident, Dorothy Stahmann), an historical novel, My Brother, My Enemy & a scary mystery: No Escape (set in NM, near “Dead Man’s Canyon”). She’s the biographer of the Civil War ragtime composer & musician: Blind Boone: Piano Prodigy. She also has a short story included in Night Terrors: Stories of Shadow & Substance

HARRINGTON, ISIS - 1930s children’s writer of The Eagle's Nest, a Navajo story & Told in the Twilight; a Collection of Pueblo and Navajo Stories and Navajo Mother Goose Rhymes

HARROUN, DOROTHY - Santa Fe painter & illustrator of the very good children’s nature book, Mini Walks on the Mesa

HARTER, PENNY - Santa Fe teacher at the Santa Fe Preparatory School & poet of Shadow Play, Night Haiku

HARTMAN, JANE - Santa Fe author of many nonfiction titles, including: Animals That Live In Groups, Armadillos, Anteaters, and Sloths, & Living Together In Nature: How Symbiosis Works

HAUSMAN, GERALD - former Tesuque teacher, storyteller & author of many books, including: Coyote Walks on Two Legs, Eagle Boy: a Traditional Navajo Legend, How Chipmunk Got Tiny Feet, Story of Blue Elk (a Pueblo folk tale, illustrated by KRISTINA RODANAS, about a great magic elk who helps a mute boy find his voice) & Turtle Island ABC

HAUSMAN, SID - Tesuque bluegrass & Western music performer, illustrator, a resident artist with the New Mexico Arts Division, teaching songwriting at Navajo & pueblo schools, & author of One Bullfrog, NM animal counting & song book. For more information, please see the NM Index.

HAUTH, KATHERINE - Rio Rancho author of the excellent natural history book, Night Life of the Yucca: the Story of a Flower and a Moth

HAYES, FLORENCE SOOY - children’s author of the 1940s novel, The Burro Tamer*, set in Santa Fe, Chee and His Pony: the Story of a Navajo Boy, illustrated by WILLIAM MOYERS & Hosh-ki, the Navajo, another Navajo story

HAYES, JOE - very popular Santa Fe story-teller & author of picture books & several bilingual Hispanic, Native American, & ranch folktale collections, including the Checker Playing Hound Dog, Coyote &: Native American Folk Tales, El Cucuy!: a Bogeyman Cuento, The Day It Snowed Tortillas, Everyone Knows Gato Pinto, A Heart Full of Turquoise, Juan Verdades: the Man Who Couldn't Tell a Lie, Little Gold Star: a Cinderella Cuento = Estrellita de Oro, No Way Jose!, Pajaro Verde: the Green Bird, Soft Child: How Rattlesnake Got Its Fangs: a Native American Folktale, A Spoon for Every Bite & Tell Me a Cuento, Cuéntame Un Story

HAZEN-HAMMOND, SUSAN - Santa Fe poet, photographer & author of Thunder Bear and Ko: the Buffalo Nation and Nambé Pueblo

HELMAN, ANDREA JEAN - Washington State author, writing teacher, journalist, performer, video producer, & freelance writer of C Is For Coyote: a Southwest Alphabet Book, set mostly in NM: D is for Dune at White Sand Dunes, N is for Native American with a picture of San Ildefonso Pueblo, P is for Pueblo with a picture of Taos Pueblo

HENDRICKSON, LINNEA - Albuquerque UNM professor, author of Children’s Literature: a Guide to the Criticism & member of the national Caldecott committee

HENTY, G. A. - 19th century children’s author of Redskin & and Cow-boy; a Tale of the Western Plains* & Redskins and Colonists or, A Boy's Adventures in the Early Days of Virginia*, which includes Ranch in the Valley*, all set in NM

HERRERA, VELINO SHIJE (MA-PE-WI) - Zia Pueblo painter, winner of the 1942 Caldecott Medal Honor for In My Mother's House, by ANN NOLAN CLARK, a picture book about a young Tewa boy’s life at Tesuque Pueblo & illustrator of Young Hunter of Picuris, also by ANN NOLAN CLARK, a classic tale of a young boy's life in Picuris Pueblo.

HIGHSMITH, BONNIE - author of the Navajo children’s novel, Kodi's Mare

HIGHWATER, JAMAKE - former New Mexico Blackfoot/Cherokee author of many titles, including the Newbery Honor-winning, Anpao: an American Indian Odyssey (illustrated by Fritz Scholder), Ceremony of Innocence, I Wear the Morning Star, Legend Days (the 1st book of the Ghost Horse cycle, which traces the lives of 3 generations of a Northern Plains Indian family) & Moonsong Lullaby (with photographs by MARCIA KEEGAN)

HILLERMAN, ANNE - daughter of TONY HILLERMAN, Santa Fe author of Children’s Guide to Santa Fe, & Done in the Sun: Solar Projects for Children

HILLERMAN, TONY - probably Albuquerque's most popular author; he has written the beautiful children's book, Boy Who Made Dragonfly: a Zuni Myth & the funny picture book, Buster Mesquite's Cowboy Band

HISCOCK, BRUCE - upper New York state author & illustrator of the beautiful picture book, Coyote and Badger: Desert Hunters of the Southwest

HOBBS, WILL - although a Durango, Colorado author, this young adult author has written several excellent NM novels, including The Big Wander (an adventure novel set partially in Red River) & Kokopelli’s Flute (a fantasy set near Anasazi cliff dwellings on a drought-tolerant seed farm in northern NM, near the fictional town of Encantado)

HOGNER, DOROTHY CHILDS - Connecticut owner of Hemlock Hill Herb Farm, who graduated from UNM & children’s author of the 1920s story, Santa Fe Caravans*, about Josiah Gregg on the Santa Fe Trail

HOLLING, HOLLING CLANCY - naturalist, illustrator, & author who lived in Taos & who wrote, among others, The Tree in the Trail, about a cottonwood tree on the Great Plains, which became an ox yoke which traveled on the Santa Fe Trail

HOLMAS, STIG - Norwegian novelist of Apache Pass, about a young Chiricahua Apache boy who witnesses insults to Cochise by a US military officer, as he & his people struggle to defend their home; & Son-of-Thunder, during the time of Cochise & Geronimo, an adopted Apache boy joins in the struggle of his people to hold their hunting grounds against the Anglos

HOOD, FLORA MAE - Albuquerque teacher & author of the Hispanic New Mexican Christmas tale: One Luminaria for Antonio & the nonfiction book, Living in Navajoland. She also selected the poems & prose for The Turquoise Horse: Prose & Poetry of the American Indian

HOPE, LAURA LEE - publisher’s house pseudonym of Edward Stratemeyer, & author of the popular series, The Bobbsey Twins; with 1set in NM: the 1920 novel, Bobbsey Twins’ in the Great West (#13 in the series). The Bobbsey twins, Nan, Bert, Freddie & Flossie, are delighted when Mrs. Bobbsey inherits the Three Star Ranch in “Cowdon”, NM. They get a chance to ride the range on little cow ponies, visit the local Indian Reservation, see a roundup, & solve a mystery

HOTVEDT, KRIS - Santa Fe woodblock print artist, teacher, author & the illustrator of JOSEPH J. RUIZ’s The Little Ghost Who Wouldn't Go Away = El Pequeño Fantasma & his Little Juan Learns a Lesson = El Pequeno Juan Aprendé una Lección

HOUSER, ALLAN - Santa Fe Apache sculptor, painter & illustrator of Blue Canyon Horse & Desert People by ANN NOLAN CLARK & ELIZABETH COATSWORTH’s, The Cave

HOWARD, NANCY SHROYER - Colorado artist, lecturer & author of Helen Cordero & the Storytellers of Cochiti Pueblo

HOWELL, FRANK - Santa Fe poet, writer, art teacher & award-winning illustrator of Dancing Moons, Sacred Fire & Spirit Walker

HOYT-GOLDSMITH, DIANE - Oregon-raised author, NYC-educated, now California author of many titles, including Pueblo Storyteller, about a young Cochiti Indian girl living with her grandparents in the Cochiti Pueblo

HUCKO, BRUCE - Santa Fe photographer, teacher, art coach & author of A Rainbow at Night: the World In Words & Pictures by Navajo Children

HUGHES, MEREDITH & TOM - Albuquerque founders of the Food Museum & authors of Buried Treasure: Roots & Tubers, Cool as a Cucumber, Hot as a Pepper: Fruit Vegetables, Glorious Grasses: the Grains & Stinky and Stringy: Stem and Bulb Vegetables

HULL, ELEANOR - Boulder children’s author of The Turquoise Horse*, set in NM; she’s the daughter of FLORENCE CRANNELL MEANS

HULME, JOY N. - California author of 2 novels based on a true story, about a 9 year-old Mormon girl with a speech impediment, on a wagon-train trip, from Utah to NM, around the time of statehood: Through the Open Door & Climbing the Rainbow. In the sequel, 10-year-old Dora makes a quilt to record her experiences as she finally starts school & her family tries to get homestead rights for their ranch

HULPACH, VLADIMIR - Czech author of the Zuni picture book, Ahaiyute & Cloud Eater, illustrated by Marek Zawadzki, a Polish illustrator! The book is a retelling of the Zuni folktale in which a boy accepts the challenge to conquer the Cloud Eater & so prove that he is a strong warrior

HUNT, WOLF ROBE & RUSHMORE, HELEN - Acoma Pueblo painter, jewelry designer, gallery owner, dancer, lecturer, & children’s authors of The Dancing Horses of Acoma, and Other Acoma Indian Stories

HUNTER, SARA HOAGLAND - Massachusetts teacher, journalist, writer/producer & author of The Unbreakable Code, a story about the Navajo Code Talkers, which was declared a 1996 Smithsonian Notable Book for Children.

INGRAM, JERRY - Albuquerque Choctaw painter & illustrator of a book on Native American masks, dances & songs: They Put on Masks by Byrd Baylor

JAMES, BETSY - Placitas' author & illustrator of many popular novels & picture books, including Mary Ann, Mud Family (an Anasazi story), Tadpoles; & the highly praised Creek fantasy companion novels: Long Night Dance & Dark Heart

JAMES, HELEN FOSTER - San Diego teacher & author of E is for Enchantment: a New Mexico Alphabet

JAMES, J. ALISON - award-winning translator & author of the children’s novel, Sing for a Gentle Rain, about a contemporary boy whose search for the explanation to a persistent dream leads him to an Anasazi cliff village, 700 years ago, where a young Indian girl needs his help to ensure the survival of her people

JAMES, WILL - cowboy artist & Newberry Award-winning children’s author of Smoky, the Cowhorse (set in “Gramah”, NM), who worked as a ranch hand on the CS Ranch in Cimarron, while illustrating & working on his Western stories. His other children’s books include Sand & The Will James Cowboy Book (neither set in NM)

JANDA, JAMES - poet, playwright, & author of children’s stories, including The Lost Child: A Folktale*, a timeless Hispanic folktale, known as El Niño Perdido, which helps us understand how precious we all are in the eyes of God, & is set in Chimayó

JAYNE, R. H. - pseudonym of Edward S. Ellis, 19th century teacher, editor, author of hundreds of novels & children’s writer of The Cave in the Mountain*, a sequel to In the Pecos Country*, Lone Wolf Cave* (originally published as The Cave in the Mountain*); a sequel to In the Pecos Country* & Through Apache Land; or Ned in the Mountains*, all set in NM

JOHNSON, B.F. (BURDETTA FAYE) - Santa Fe author of American Desert Animals. She is married to JAMES R. JOHNSON.

JOHNSON, JAMES RALPH - Santa Fe award-winning children’s author & illustrator of Camels West, a historical novel, Ringtail*, set on the Pajarito Plateau & the Jemez Mountains & The Wolf Cub*, set in NM

JOHNSTON, MADELINE E. - 8-year old Santa Fe artist featured on the Santa Fe Opera’s 1999 & 2000 Youth Night at the Opera program covers, the promotional poster for the 2000 event, & the Spring 2000 cover of New Mexico Kids! magazine. She is also the author & illustrator of A Perfect Pet*

JOHNSTON, TONY [SUSAN TAYLOR] - California-born, now Mexico City author & illustrator of many funny & colorful picture books, including the NM book, Alice Nizzy Nazzy, the Witch of Santa Fe

JOHNSTONE, WILL - artist, computer programmer & painter of abstract art in Denver. He began painting southwestern landscapes at the age of 14 & began programming FORTRAN at UNM. His paintings are now hard-edged abstracts & his programming is now for distribution on the World Wide Web. He’s sculpted in metal, wood & stone, designed & built adobe homes, carved decorative wooden lintels & cabinets, designed & manufactured silver & gold jewelry, illustrated publications & technical manuals, created art for the web, & continues to paint. He’s the author & illustrator of the children’s book Hey! What Do You Do With a Dinosaur?*, set outside Albuquerque

KAVASCH, E. BARRIE - Bridgewater, Connecticut, gardening history expert & author of Apache Children & Elders Talk Together & Zuni Children & Elders Talk Together

KEAMS, GERI - Navajo storyteller, actress & author of the beautiful Native American legends: Grandmother Spider Brings the Sun: a Cherokee Story & Snail Girl Brings Water: a Navajo Story

KEECH, ROY A. - Santa Fe author of the bilingual song book, Children Sing in New Mexico

KEEGAN, MARCIA - Santa Fe photographer & author of several excellent works on Pueblo Indian history & culture, including Pueblo Boy: Growing Up In Two Worlds, Pueblo Girls: Growing Up in Two Worlds, about the home, school, & cultural life of two young Indian girls growing up on the San Ildefonso Pueblo, & Taos Indians and Their Sacred Blue Lake

KELLY, BERNADINE CRESWELL - NM novelist of Lujan Returns, a Zuni Children’s Book & Trail Riders, a NM historical novel

KELLY, ERIC PHILBROOK - journalist, teacher & Newbery Award-winning children’s author of The Trumpeter of Krakow, a Tale of the Fifteenth Century & Treasure Mountain*, set in NM

KIESLER, KATE - Taos illustrator of Bright Christmas: an Angel Remembers, The Great Frog Race and Other Poems & Old Elm Speaks: Tree Poems

KING, DEBORAH - English author & illustrator of The Flight of the Snow Geese which follows a flock of snow geese as they fly from their Arctic nesting ground to the New Mexico desert where they spend the winter

KING, ELIZABETH - former New Mexico author, illustrator & photographer of several books, including Backyard Sunflower, Chile Fever: a Celebration of Peppers, Pumpkin Patch & Quinceanera: Celebrating Fifteen

KINGSBURY, CARL LOUIS - children’s author of the 1910 story, The Mystery at the Carrol Ranch; a Story of the Southwest*, which is set in NM

KIRBY, JEAN - pseudonym of Chaille Howard (Payne) Robinson, romance & children’s author of Nurses Three: a Very Special Girl*, set in NM

KIRKPATRICK, JUNE - long-time New Mexican author of the Christmas picture book, The Little Church Mouse of the Loretto Chapel

KJELGAARD, JIM - author who wrote beloved animal novels, & other wilderness novels, including Wolf Brother, about an young Apache man who was educated among Anglos, returned to his tribe, & is forced, by a meeting with an Army sergeant to take refuge with a band of outlaws

KRANTZ, HAZEL - even though not a New Mexico author, her young adult novel, Walks in Beauty, is set on the Navajo Reservation

KREISCHER, ELSIE - Albuquerque storyteller, creative writing & children's literature teacher at UNM & the College of Santa Fe; & author of Navaho Magic of Hunting, a narrative poem; the award-winning biography, Maria Montoya Martinez, Master Potter & Bigger Than a Button, a picture book

KRENZ, NANCY - Albuquerque craftsperson & co-author of Southwestern Art and Crafts Projects

KRISHNASWAMI, UMA - New Delhi-born, now Aztec award-winning author of The Broken Tusk: Stories of the Hindu God Ganesha, Chachaji’s Cup, Monsoon, Naming Maya, Shower of Gold, Women and Girls in the Stories of India, a retelling of 18 traditional stories with all female heroes & Stories of the Flood. She is also included in Period Pieces: Stories for Girls.

KRUIDENIER, ROBERT - Santa Fe photographer of Hawk Highway in the Sky: Watching Raptor Migration

KRUMGOLD, JOSEPH - the 1st person to receive the Newbery Medal twice & northern New Mexico author of the classic novels: And Now Miguel (set in the Sangre de Cristos) & Onion John (not set in NM)

KUDLINSKI, KATHLEEN - Connecticut author of many titles, including The Spirit Catchers: an Encounter With Georgia O'Keeffe, set during the Depression. 15-year-old Parker finds himself homeless & traveling across the NM desert, when he’s led to Georgia O'Keeffe who teaches him photography. A strong sense of O'Keeffe's commitment to art, the desert, & living life her own way emerges. This is a literary interpretation of her painting, "Ram's Skull with Brown Leaves," as well as an intimate look at her relationship with Alfred Stieglitz, & the creative process

LACAPA, KATHLEEN - Irish/English/Mohawk co-author with her husband, MICHAEL LACAPA, of a 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

LA MESA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ALBUQUERQUE NM WIZ KIDS OF OZ - child authors of a series "founded on & continuing the famous Oz stories by L. Frank Baum": The Enchanted Emeralds From Oz (set in Albuquerque), John R. Neill Visits Oz Mico (set in Albuquerque), The Many Lands in Oz, Our Trip to Oz, A Valuable Gift From Oz, W.W. Denslow in Oz (set in Albuquerque), The Liberty Bell in Oz (set in Albuquerque) & Our Trip to Oz, filed under j Fiction Wiz Kids

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

LARASON, LARRY - co-author with Mary Jean Hendrick of Ghost on the Moki Steps, a mid-school story about Phil Richart, a young half Navajo man, who, needing money to help his family, is lured into looting an ancient Pueblo ruin by George Ruffner, an illegal antiquities collector. George takes Phil to a remote canyon, which is home to a bitter, lonely spirit of a young woman who died 700 years ago. George flees the ghost leaving Phil alone in the canyon for a week. She tries to scare Phil away, but as she comes to know him she changes her plan. The author has lived on the Navajo Reservation for 5 years, & now lives in Gallup. Mary Jean Hendrick has published articles in magazines & her first book, If Anything Ever Goes Wrong at the Zoo, a picture book which was a Book of the Month Club selection in 1998. She has taught school for 25 years, & lives in Choctaw, Oklahoma.

LARSON, BONNIE - Santa Fe former Montessori teacher, founder & administrator of alternative schools & co-author of Watakame's Journey: the Story of the Great Flood & the New World, a Huichol Indian tale

LASKY, KATHRYN - Cambridge, Massachusetts author of many titles, including the dramatic & satisfying young adult novel, Blood Secret, about 14-year-old Jerry Luna, mute since her mother's disappearance, who’s sent to her great-great aunt Constanza's Albuquerque home, where she discovers a trunk that draws her into the world of her Jewish ancestors during the Spanish Inquisition

LAUGHLIN, ROBIN KITTRELL - Santa Fe author & illustrator of Backyard Bugs

LAURITZEN, ELIZABETH MOYES - teacher in rural, elementary, & high schools in Arizona & Utah, Brigham City librarian & children’s author of Shush'ma, a story set in Fort Defiance

LAURITZEN, JONREED - Utah & AZ-raised author of The Glitter-Eyed Wouser & The Ordeal of the Young Hunter, both set on the Navajo Reservation

LAVASH, DONALD R. - New Mexico historian, teacher, Lincoln County War historian & author of, among other books, Journey Through New Mexico History

LAVENDER, DAVID - well-known historian of the West, born in Telluride, Colorado but who spent most of his life in Ojai, California; author of the children’s book, Mother Earth, Father Sky: Pueblo Indians of the American Southwest

LAWRENCE, MILDRED - young adult & children’s author of many titles, including Gateway to the Sun*, which is set in Santa Fe

LEHR, NORMA - Auburn, CA author of the gripping mystery, Dance of the Crystal Skull* in which an 11-year-old visiting her NM grandmother, goes on a geological dig & sees a vision of a crystal skull - but no one else does!

LEVY, ELIZABETH - although not a New Mexican author, she wrote Something Queer in the Wild West, a mystery, about a girl, who, while visiting her uncle's ranch in NM, follows her dog to find out about the disappearance of a thoroughbred

LINCOLN, ANDREW CAREY - children’s author of the 1912 novel, Motorcycle Chums on the Santa Fe Trail; or, The Key to the Indian Treasure Cave*

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 & she co-edited Period Pieces: Stories for Girls

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

LOBDELL, HELEN - Michigan author who taught at the Belen Junior High School & author of a historical novel about the effects of the Pueblo Revolt & the journey of the Hispanic people to El Paso, in Prisoner of Taos

LOBLEY, ROBERT E. - Fort Sumner-born & raised illustrator of the children’s picture story, Hannah Hummingbird

LOEFFLER, GISELLA - children’s author of Little-Boy-Dance*, set in NM

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, set on the border with Mexico

LOURIE, PETER - Middlebury, Vermont award-winning author & photographer of many titles, including The Lost World of the Anasazi: Exploring the Mysteries of Chaco Canyon & Rio Grande: from the Rocky Mountains to the Gulf of Mexico

LOVETT, SARAH - Santa Fe author of many books, including: Bats, Birds, Fishes, Insects, Kidding Around the National Parks of the Southwest, Mammals, Micro Monsters, Primates & Spiders

LOWMILLER, CATHY - Casa Grande, AZ artist & illustrator of Dezbah and the Dancing Tumbleweeds & New Mexico Land of Enchantment Alphabet

LUBY, THIA - Santa Fe award-winning author of The Children’s Book of Yoga, Games and Exercises: Mimic Plants, Animals and Objects

LUHRS, RUTH J. - Sandia Park award-winning newspaper columnist, xeriscape gardening expert & children's author of Kidding around San Diego*

LUMMIS, CHARLES FLETCHER - early NM historian, archaeologist, librarian, popularizer of the Southwest & author of The Enchanted Burro: & Other Stories as I Have Known Them from Maine to Chile, set partially in NM

LYNN, THEODORE - Albuquerque president of Sandia Publishing Corp., & co-author of No Slack, the basketball autobiography of Michael Cooper, Albuquerque's LA Laker

LYON, GEORGE ELLA - Kentucky poet & author of a beautiful picture book about Mesa Verde: Dreamplace

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 in poetry, each month of a year in the life of an eleven-year-old Navajo girl

MALKUS, ALIDA S. - 1930’s woman's page editor & feature writer for the Albuquerque Morning Journal, & Albuquerque children’s author of The Dragon Fly of Zuni, Sidi, Boy of the Desert (a young Arabian boy's valuable horse is stolen by a prince) & Stone Knife Boy* (set in Taos Pueblo)

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

MARSHALL, HELEN LAUGHLIN - children’s author of A New Mexican Boy

MARTINEZ, ESTEFANITA - author of The Naughty Little Rabbit & Old Man Coyote: a Tewa Story from San Juan Pueblo, a traditional trickster tale in which Rabbit outsmarts Coyote

MARTINEZ, FLOYD - New Mexico-born & raised author of a young adult ranch novel, set near Capulin, Spirits of the High Mesa

MATTHEWS, KAY - El Valle, NM outdoor enthusiast & author of several books, including An Anasazi Welcome, a contemporary Anasazi ghost story

MAZZIO, JOANN - Pinos Altos winner of a Spur, from the Western Writers of America, young adult suspense novelist of Leaving Eldorado, about a young painter abandoned by her father in Territorial Eldorado, & how she comes of age; & the New Mexico mystery, One Who Came Back, set in the mountains outside Albuquerque, which was nominated for an Edgar by the Mystery Writers of America

MCCALL, EDITH S. - Missouri author of many American history novels, including Message From the Mountains, a suspenseful book of historical adventure set in 1826 Missouri. When Jim Matthew's father does not return from Mexico, he decides to leave his lonely life & strike out on the Santa Fe Trail, to search for his father, with his friend Kit Carson

MCCORMICK, WILFRED - Hagerman-raised creative writing teacher at UNM, & children’s sports author of The Big Ninth*, Eagle Scout* (set at Philmont Scout Ranch), Flying Tackle; a Bronc Burnett Story*, Legion Tourney: a Bronc Burnett Story*, The Phantom Shortstop, The Pro Toughback (starring Roy Rolfe, a professional football player & set partially in Albuquerque), Quick Kick; a Bronc Burnett Story*, Rambling Halfback*, & The Three-Two Pitch*, all set in NM

MCDERMOTT, GERALD - author & illustrator of the beautiful Arrow to the Sun: a Pueblo Indian Tale which won the coveted Caldecott Medal

MCDONOUGH, MARIAN MCINTYRE - children’s novelist of the story of Caravans to Santa Fe

MCINTOSH, KENNETH - upstate NY pastor, former junior high school teacher in Los Angeles & author of the nonfiction title, The Pueblo

MCINTYRE, JOHN T. - children’s author of the 1913 novel, In the Rockies with Kit Carson*, set partially in NM

MCKISSACK, PATRICIA - Missouri Newbery Honor winning author of many titles, often about African-American history & culture, but also other titles, including The Apache

MCLAUGHLIN, MARIE - Santa Fe author of the rhyming animal picture book Those Toes*, which she wrote for her 16 grandchildren

MEANS, FLORENCE CRANNELL - winner of a Newbery Honor award for The Moved-Outers, one of the 1st authors to write about racism in children’s books, she also wrote Adella Mary in Old New Mexico, set in Taos, The House Under the Hill; a Story of New Mexico*, Shadow over Wide Ruin*, set in Gallup, Silver Fleece; a Story of the Spanish in New Mexico, Tangled Waters; a Navajo Story & Teresita of the Valley*, all set in NM. She’s the mother of ELEANOR HULL

MEYER, CAROLYN - Albuquerque author of novels, craft books & biographies, including: Anastasia: the Last Grand Duchess, Christmas Crafts, Elliott & Win* (a young adult novel set in Santa Fe), Isabel: Jewel of Castilla, Kristina: the Girl King, Luck of Texas McCoy (set on a ranch outside Santa Fe) & Rio Grande Stories (about an Albuquerque middle school class which holds an unusual fund-raiser: they sell a book of stories about their NM families, set in Española, Santa Clara, Taos, etc.)

MIAN, MARY LAWRENCE SHIPMAN - children’s author of The Net to Catch War*, a novel set in Santa Fe & Take Three Witches*, also set in Santa Fe

MIHELICH, CARLA MCGREGOR - New England-born, now New Mexico illustrator of the beautiful book, Spread Your Wings & Fly

MILBURN, CARIN CALVERT - Albuquerque children’s short story author & storyteller

MILES, MISKA - California author of the Newbery Honor-winning picture books, Annie and the Old One & the Spanish version, Ani y la Anciana, a Navajo story about a little girl who tries to stop her Grandmother from dying, by unraveling her mother’s weaving, but who learns that dying is a part of living

MILLARD, JOSEPH (JOHN) - Minnesota author of Cut-Hand, the Mountain Man*, set in Taos, & Raton, about "Uncle Dick" Richard Lacy Wootton

MILLER, MICHAEL - former State Historian, director of the NM Records Center & Archives, retired director of the Center for Southwest Research at UNM, author & editor & who is included in the NM issue of Cobblestone Magazine: American History for Kids

MIRSKY, JEANNETTE - educator, editor, & children’s author of several books on explorers, including The Gentle Conquistadors: the Ten Year Odyssey Across the American Southwest of Three Spanish Captains & Esteban, a Black Slave*, about Estevan & Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca

MIXON, LAURA J. - Albuquerque author of young adult science fiction short stories & novels, including Glass Houses*

MOMADAY, N. SCOTT - Jemez Pueblo-raised, Kiowa-Cherokee Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, short story author & poet of Circle of Wonder: a Native American Christmas Story

MOMADAY, NATACHEE - Cherokee teacher, author of a story about a Navajo boy, in Owl in the Cedar Tree & mother of N. SCOTT MOMADAY

MONTALVO, MARGARITA - Albuquerque poet, born in Puerto Rico, translator, illustrator & author of the collection, Zoológico de Poemas = Poetry Zoo

MONTGOMERY, FRANCES TREGO - children’s author of the 1916 novel, Billy Whiskers Out West*, set in Mora

MONTOYA, MALAQUIAS - Albuquerque artist & illustrator of The Adventures of Connie and Diego = Las Aventuras de Connie y Diego

MOON, CARL - 1900s artist & writer of children's books, who managed a art & photography studio in Albuquerque, illustrator of children's books written by his wife, GRACE, including The Book of Nah-Wee*, stories about a Pueblo Indian girl. He also wrote & illustrated Flaming Arrow*, the story of a Pueblo Indian boy who discovers the people who tricked his tribe's chief.

MOON, GRACE - Albuquerque author of the Pueblo stories: The Book of Nah-Wee* & Chi-Weé and Loki of the Desert; the Navajo stories: Daughter of Thunder, Far-Away Desert, The Magic Trail, The Missing Katchina, & The Runaway Papoose (all illustrated by her husband CARL) & Nadita (set in Mexico), One Little Indian & The Singing Sands

MORA, PAT - Santa Fe poet & author of several bilingual picture books, including: A Birthday Basket for Tia, Confetti: Poems for Children, The Desert is My Mother, Listen to the Desert, Maria Paints the Hills (set in Santa Fe), Pablo’s Tree, The Race of Toad and Deer, Song of Francis & the Animals*, This Big Sky & Uno, Dos, Tres. She also edited Love to Mamá: a Tribute to Mothers

MORGAN, WILLIAM - Gallup area-born language expert, teacher & collector of Navajo Coyote Tales

MOTT, EVELYN CLARKE - Pennsylvania author & photographer of several books, including Dancing Rainbows: a Pueblo Boy’s Story, about Curt & his grandfather at San Juan Pueblo’s Feast Day

MOYERS, WILLIAM - Albuquerque painter & sculptor who illustrated FLORENCE HAYES’ Chee and His Pony: the Story of a Navajo Boy & GEORGE CORY FRANKLIN’s Pedro, the Road Runner, Pioneer Horse, Trails West & Wild Horses of the Rio Grande

MULCAHY, LUCILLE - Albuquerque author of The Blue Marshmallow Mountains, a mystery set in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, Dark Arrow, a Tewa Indian novel, Fire on Big Lonesome, about a 14-year-old Zuni boy who volunteers & joins a fire crew, Magic Fingers, about an Isleta Pueblo grandmother potter who’s accused of causing the governor’s Lincoln cane to disappear & Pita*, also set in NM

MURPHY, BARBARA (BEASLEY) - 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).

NABOKOV, PETER - northern New Mexico journalist & author of a biography of George Washington Carver

NARANJO-MORSE, NORA - Santa Clara Pueblo potter, sculptor, filmmaker, poet, & author of A First Clay Gathering* about making pottery

NASON, THELMA - Albuquerque author of excellent books on early New Mexican history: No Golden Cities & Under the Wide Sky: Tales of New Mexico and the Spanish Southwest

NELSON, DREW - newspaper & magazine journalist & author of an animal storybook: Wild Voices & husband of VAUNDA NELSON

NELSON, MARY CARROLL - Albuquerque artist & author of very good books on Southwestern & Western artists, including Annie Wauneka, Maria Martinez, Michael Naranjo, Pablita Velarde & Robert Bennett

NELSON, VAUNDA MICHEAUX - Children's Librarian at the Rio Rancho Public Library, award-winning author of several 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!

NEWBERRY, CLARE TURLAY - Taos author & illustrator of Herbert the Lion & the Caldecott Honor-winning story of a city cat & a white bunny: Marshmallow

NEWCOMB, FRANC JOHNSON - NM teacher, trading post owner, anthropologist, folklorist & collector of the children’s stories, Navaho Folk Tales & Navajo Bird Tales Told by Hosteen Clah Chee, illustrated by HARRY WALTERS

NEWMAN, GWILL YORK - Cleveland, Ohio-born, she’s been a trustee of 25 nonprofit organizations! 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

NEZ, REDWING T. - Navajo award-winning, self-taught artist & author of the beautiful Navajo picture book: Forbidden Talent

OBER, FREDERICK ALBION - 19th century ornithologist, travel writer, novelist, & children’s author of Tommy Foster's Adventures Among the Southwest*, set at Acoma

O’CONNOR, CLAIBORNE - Albuquerque graphic designer, & illustrator of many titles, including Little Brown Roadrunner

O’DELL, SCOTT - although not a New Mexico author, this world-renowned Newbery Award-winning author has written a novel set in New Mexico: Sing Down the Moon, about a young Navajo girl’s participation in the Long Walk to Fort Sumner

ORTEGA, CRISTINA - Albuquerque elementary school teacher & author of an autobiographical children’s novel, about her Chimayó Grandfather: Los Ojos del Tejedor: Through the Eyes of the Weaver

ORTIZ, ALFONSO - San Juan Pueblo-born, UNM professor of anthropology & author of The Pueblo

ORTIZ, SIMON J. - Acoma Pueblo poet, short story author, university teacher, essayist, lieutenant governor of Acoma & author of The People Shall Continue & The Good Rainbow Road = Rawa 'Kashtyaa'tsi Hiyaani: a Native American Tale in Keres & English, Followed by a Translation into Spanish, about two Acoma boys who are sent by their people to the west to visit the Shiwana, the spirits of rain & snow, & bring back rain to relieve a drought

OTTO-DINIZ, SARA - Albuquerque editor of “Biplanes & Butterflies": an Albuquerque Art Adventure & Through Children's Eyes: 100 Young Photographers Capture Their Community

PAIGE, HARRY W. - New York college teacher, professor of creative writing at New Mexico State University, Spur Award-winning author of Shadow on the Sun, set in Las Cruces, starring Billy, the Kid

PALMER, DONALD ELLSWORTH - children’s author of the NM story, Boy Scout Explorers at Headless Hollow*

PARISH, HELEN RAND - Waterbury, Connecticut historian, newspaper reporter & children’s author of Estebanico, a historical novel about the adventures of Estebanico, an African slave & one of the four conquistadors who first crossed America in search of the Seven Cities of Gold

PATCHIN, FRANK GLINES - children’s author of the 1910 novel, The Pony Rider Boys in New Mexico; or, The End of the Silver Trail*

PAUL, AILEEN - Santa Fe author of several books on children's crafts & cooking: Kids Camping, Kids Cooking Without a Stove, The Kids’ Diet Cookbook & Kids Outdoor Gardening

PAUL, PAULA - Albuquerque playwright, teacher & young adult novelist of Dance With Me, Gods (set at San Juan Pueblo during the Pueblo Revolt), The Wail of La Llorona*, a romance set in Albuquerque & You Can Hear a Magpie Smile, about a small-town New Mexico curandera. She also wrote a children’s novel set partially in Albuquerque, Geronimo Chino

PAULSEN, GARY - La Luz resident & three time Newbery Honor Award-winning children's & young adult author. He’s written 5 autobio-graphies: Guts: the True Stories Behind Hatchet and the Brian Books, How Angel Peterson got his Name, My Life in Dog Years, Puppies, Dogs, and Blue Northers & Woodsong; the novels: The Boy Who Owned the School, Canyons, about the Apache, set near Alamogordo, Dogsong, Dogteam, Hatchet, set in the Canadian wilderness, The Night the White Deer Died, a NM Native American novel, The River, science fiction novels: Transall Saga & The White Fox Chronicles; & nonfiction books, including: Father Water, Mother Woods, Full of Hot Air & Tortilla Factory. He also wrote the Francis Tucket adventure series, with Tucket’s Gold set in NM

PEÑA, AMADO MAURILIO - Santa Fe Indo-Hispanic watercolorist, serigraph, etching artist & illustrator of the children's picture book, Calor: a Story of Warmth for All Ages & LISA GOLDMAN’s Amadito and Spider Woman,

PERCEVAL, DON - English-born, Arizona & California artist & illustrator of many titles, including The Little Indian Pottery Maker by ANN NOLAN CLARK & Owl in the Cedar Tree, by NATACHEE SCOTT MOMADAY

PERRINE, MARY - elementary teacher at Navajo schools in Arizona & New Mexico, & author of the Navajo picture books: Salt Boy & Nannabah's Friend

PETERSON, JEANNE WHITEHOUSE - UNM professor & author of many award-winning books, including Don't Forget Winona (set partially in NM), I Have a Sister My Sister Is Deaf (1979 Coretta Scott King Award Honor Book), My Mama Sings (not set in NM), Sometimes I Dream Horses, That Is That (not set in NM) & While the Moon Shines Bright*

PHELPS, MARGARET - author of Chia and the Lambs, the story of a Navajo child

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.

PIJOAN, TERESA - Española born, San Juan Pueblo Trading Post-raised, now Albuquerque's South Valley teacher of creative writing, author & collector of American Indian tales, such as White Wolf Woman

PINKLEY-CALL, CORA - children’s author of Shifting Sands*, a story set in White Sands

PITTS, PAUL - writer who lives on the Navajo Reservation, in southeastern Utah, & novelist of Racing the Sun about how a 12-year-old learns from his grandfather to be proud of his Navajo heritage

PLATERO, DILLON - Director of the Navajo Curriculum Center, Deputy Director of the Rough Rock Demonstration School & author of Coyote Stories

POLLOCK, PENNY - although not a New Mexico author, she has retold a beautiful picture book: The Turkey Girl: a Zuni Cinderella Story

POWELL, SUZANNE - Grand Rapids, MI elementary school teacher & author of The Pueblos, about the traditional & modern way of life of the Pueblos: their history, culture, religion, & ability to survive & thrive

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

PRECEK, KATHARINE WILSON - Albuquerque children's author of The Keepsake Chest & Penny In the Road (neither set in NM)

PRELUTSKY, JACK - very famous former Albuquerque children's poet who’s written many books, including Baby Uggs Are Hatching, Circus, The Dragons Are Singing Tonight, Pizza the Size of the Sun, Ride a Purple Pelican & Tyrannosaurus Was a Beast, to name just a few!

PREUSCH, DEB - Albuquerque grass-roots activist & co-author of the Navajo story, Red Ribbons For Emma

PRICE, JOAN - Arizona professor at Mesa Community College & author of Truth is a Bright Star: a Hopi Adventure, which is based on the true story of the stealing of Hopi children from their village by Spanish soldiers in the mid-nineteenth century & set in NM

PRIESTLEY, LEE - Kansas-born, Las Cruces award-winning children’s author of Because of Rainbows*, which is set in Hillsboro, Believe in Spring*, set in the Pecos River Valley, Rocket to the Stars* & The Sound of Always*

RACZEK, LINDA THERESA - Albuquerque-raised, now Cortez, CO authorr of the Ute Indian picture book, Night the Grandfathers Danced, the 1995 winner of the National Cowboy Hall of Fame Western Heritage Award & Rainy’s Powwow, a picture book about a girl’s first powwow dance

REDMOND, SHIRLEY-RAYE - Los Alamos nonfiction children’s author of Lewis & Clark: a Prairie Dog for the President, Patriots in Petticoats: Heroines of the American Revolution, Pigeon Hero! & Tentacles!: Tales of the Giant Squid.

REED, EVELYN DAHL - children’s author of The Misadventures of Coyote: Indian Tales from the Pueblos

REEVES, FAYE COUCH - Albuquerque author of the story, Howie Merton and the Magic Dust, which isn’t set in NM

REID, MAYNE - Irish 19th century author of many children’s novels, including, The Scalp Hunters* & The White Chief* set partially in NM

RICHARDS, KIMBERLY - born & raised in Roswell, lived in Ohio for 5 years & is now back home in Roswell; she wrote the children's story, Aiko*, her retelling of the Japanese crane legend, under the name KIM BUNDY

RICHARDSON, JEAN - author of The Courage Seed, a Navajo story

RILEY, BARBARA - Santa Fe poet & author of the picture book & poem, Grow, Grow, Grow*, about a sunflower. It is illustrated by JAENET GUGGENHEIM using paper collage

RINALDI, ANN - popular New Jersey historical novelist of many books, including The Staircase, a story about the origins of the miraculous staircase at the Chapel of Loretto in Santa Fe

ROBERTS, CALVIN A. - Albuquerque Del Norte High School social studies teacher, husband of SUSAN & co-author of History of New Mexico

ROBERTS, SUSAN A. - Albuquerque Del Norte High School social studies teacher & co-author of Civics for New Mexicans & History of New Mexico, illustrated by BETSY JAMES

ROBERTSON, KEITH - New Jersey children’s author of the Henry Reed series, including Henry Reed's Journey, which is set partially in Taos

ROBINSON, MARILETA - Rough Rock Demonstration School teacher, editor & award-winning author of the Navajo children’s picture book, Mr. Goat's Bad Good Idea

ROBINSON, MAUDIE - Clovis children’s author of Children of the Sun: the Pueblos, Navajos, and Apaches of New Mexico & the NM novel, Mystery of the Squash Blossom Necklace, set in a pueblo north of Santa Fe, about 3 children with their pet roadrunner who solve a jewelry theft & bank robbery

RODANAS, KRISTINA - Massachusetts author of Dragonfly's Tale, an attractive picture book based on a Zuni legend about how, after a poor harvest two children regain the Corn Maidens' blessings for their people with the aid of a cornstalk toy, the dragonfly; & she’s the illustrator of The Story of Blue Elk by GERALD HAUSMAN

ROESSEL, MONTY - Navajo photojournalist, photographer & author of two photo-essays about his daughter, Jaclyn: Kinaaldá: a Navajo Girl Grows Up & Songs From the Loom: a Navajo Girl Learns to Weave; & photographer of LENORA BEGAY TRAHANT’s The Success of the Navajo Arts and Crafts Enterprise

ROESSEL, ROBERT A., JR. - Navajo Director of the Rough Rock Demonstration School & editor of Coyote Stories of the Navajo People

ROHR, RONI - NYC designer, now Santa Fe designer & illustrator of the rhyming animal picture book, Those Toes*, written by MARIE MCLAUGHLIN

ROSE, NAOMI C. - Santa Fe peace activist, artist & author of the children's book, Tibetan Tales for Little Buddhas

ROSEN, MICHAEL - London author of many titles, including Crow & Hawk: a Traditional Pueblo Indian Story, about Hawk who rescues an abandoned crow's nest, & when the baby birds hatch, Crow returns to claim her children but finds that they want to stay with the only mother they've ever known

ROSS, INEZ - Los Alamos author of The Strange Disappearance of Uncle Dudley: a Child’s Story of Los Alamos, set during the making of the atomic bomb

ROSS, PAMELA - NYC editor, mother & author of The Pueblo Indians, an overview of the past & present lives of the Pueblo people, covering their daily activities, family life, religion, government, history, & interaction with the US government

ROSS, TOM - Albuquerque-born, Santa Fe artist, owner of the Leaping Lizard Gallery, environmental writer for TV animation, & children's author of the picture books: Eggbert, the Slightly Cracked Egg & Irma the Flying Bowling Ball, & illustrator of Betsy Hoffman’s Haunted Places

ROY, LILLIAN ELIZABETH BECKER - children’s author of the 1920’s novels, Girl Scouts in Arizona & New Mexico* & Polly in the Southwest*, set partially in NM

RUE, NANCY N. - author of many stories, including The Choice*, a Christian story about twelve-year-old Will, in Santa Fe, just before the end of World War II

RUIZ, JOSEPH J. - a native Santa Fean who had to start working at the age of 9 following the death of his father in order to help with family finances. After finishing high school, he went to work for the gas company as a meter reader. He retired some 30 years later as the vice president of that company. He’s written 2 bilingual children’s novels, set during a New Mexican Halloween: Little Juan Learns a Lesson & The Little Ghost Who Wouldn't Go Away = El Pequeño Fantasma. He’s also written Angel on Daniel’s Shoulder* & Manuel & the Magic Ring, about Manuel Armijo who learns the secret as to why his Velarde family farm has always had the most successful crops every year

RUMMEL, JACK - San Lorenzo author of several biographies, including Langston Hughes, Muhammad Ali & Robert Oppenheimer: Dark Prince

RUNNINGWOLF, MICHAEL B. - Tomé Micmac folk healer, artist, storytelller, teacher & co-author with PATRICIA CLARK SMITH, of On the Trail of Elder Brother: Glous'gap Stories of the Micmac Indians.      

RUSHMORE, HELEN - Tulsa children’s author of The Shadow of Robbers' Roost*, a NM novel

RUSSELL, MARION - New Mexican woman, who as a child, traveled the Santa Fe Trail & later wrote about her trip in Along the Santa Fe Trail: Marion Russell’s Own Story.

RUSSELL, SHARMAN APT - Mimbres, NM author of 2 children’s works: a biography of Frederick Douglass & a young adult Anasazi fantasy: The Humpbacked Fluteplayer

SABIN, EDWIN L. - children’s author of the 1919 novel, With Lieutenant Pike*, originally published as: Lost with Lieutenant Pike*, set in NM

SÁENZ, BENJAMIN ALIRE - Picacho-born, Las Cruces-raised, now El Paso former priest, writing professor, poet & young adult novelist of Sammy & Juliana in Hollywood, a powerful & authentic novel, about a young Chicano man living in Hollywood, a barrio of Las Cruces, & a member of the class of 1969, Sammy Santos faces the challenges of racism, the Vietnam War, violence, poverty & the loss of his love. Saenz has also written the bilingual picture books: A Gift From Papa Diego=Un Regalo de Papa Diego (set in El Paso) & Grandma Fina & Her Wonderful Umbrellas = La Abuelita Fina y Sus Sombrillas Maravillosas

SÁENZ, LORENZO - Bayard author of a published mystery novel while he was still a high school student!

SAGAN, MIRIAM - Santa Fe poet, teacher & author of the children’s books, Malcolm X & Middle Atlantic States

SAGEL, JIM - Colorado-born, Española award-winning bilingual poet, essayist, teacher, translator & novelist of Always the Heart = Siempre el Corazón, set in a small town like Española, 14-year-old C.M. helps take care of her great-grandmother, who tells stories of her star-crossed life, making C.M. realize that she is not so different from those who came before her; Where the Cinnamon Winds Blow = Donde Soplan los Vientos de Canela, C.M.’s little brother Tomás searches for maturity & knowledge about his dead father, with the aid of his great-aunt's magical eyeglasses & a deck of playing cards; & Garden of Stories = Jardin de Cuentos, 11-year-old Tomás visits his uncle & learns about his cultural heritage, all set in mythical San Gabriel, NM - all are bilingual novels

SALINAS-NORMAN, BOBBI - former Albuquerque publisher of Piñata Publications, & author of the very funny bilingual folktale: The Three Pigs: Nacho, Tito, and Miguel

SAMSON, JACK - Santa Fe editor of Field & Stream Magazine & author of the children’s work, Falconry Today

SANDOVAL, RICHARD - Pojoaque-raised author, Special Projects Publisher for New Mexico Magazine & illustrator of Farolitos of Christmas & Miguel and the Santero

SASSO, SANDY EISENBERG - award-winning Indianapolis children’s author of inspiring books for children of all faiths, the 2nd woman in the US to be ordained as a rabbi & the 1st rabbi to become a mother. She is the author of Abuelita’s Secret Matzahs, which is set in Santa Fe, & is illustrated by DIANA BRYER

SAUNDERS, MARY CHLOE SCHOOLCRAFT - Albuquerque elementary school speech-language pathologist & author of Spread Your Wings and Fly: an Origami Fold-and-Tell - a paperfolding book in story form, with a message about self-esteem and spiritual attunement

SAYRE, APRIL PULLEY - Indiana author of the beautiful picture book, Dig, Wait, Listen a Desert Toad's Tale

SCHAEFER, JACK - Santa Fe children’s author of Old Ramon, about an old sheepherder who is put in charge of his patron's young son, in northern NM. While teaching the boy how to herd sheep, he also teaches him how to relate to the natural world. It was chosen as an American Library Association Notable book; won the Distinguished Achievement Award, Western Literature Association, in 1975 & was chosen as a Newbery honor award winner

SCHICK, ELEANOR - Albuquerque children's author & illustrator of many picture books, including I Have Another Language--The Language Is Dance, Navajo ABC, Navajo Wedding Day, Piano for Julie, & JEANNE WHITEHOUSE PETERSON’s Sometimes I Dream Horses as well as a children’s novel, My Navajo Sister. She also co-wrote & illustrated with LUCI TAPAHONSO, Navajo ABC: a Diné Alphabet Book.

SCHULTZ, JAMES WILLARD - author of the 1927 children’s novel, A Son of the Navahos

SCHULTZ, RON - Santa Fe author of several children's books: Looking Inside Cartoon Animation & Looking Inside Sports Aerodynamics

SCHWARZ, MELISSA - Berkeley, California freelance writer, book editor with a longtime interest in the American Western frontier & the author of the biography, Cochise, Apache Chief

SCOTT, DAN - pseudonym of S. OMAR BARKER, author of the early 1960s Bret King cowboy series: he lives on the NM Rimrock Ranch & the young cowhand often has to fight enemies who use the latest scientific equipment: The Mystery at Blizzard Mesa*, The Mystery of Bandit Gulch*, The Mystery of Ghost Canyon*, The Mystery of Rawhide Gap*, The Range Rodeo Mystery*, The Secret of Fort Pioneer*, & The Secret of Hermit's Peak*, all set in NM

SCOTT, LENA BECKER - Oklahoma children’s author of the 1935 novel, Dawn Boy of the Pueblos, set at Zuni

SCRUGGS, SANDY - Las Cruces’ full time firefighter for the Las Cruces Fire & Emergency Services & a volunteer firefighter for the Mesilla Fire Department. Before that, she taught PE, Spanish, & Special Ed in NM elementary & high schools. She’s the author of Adventures of Willy B, about a gorilla who races cars & Ode to the Wart Hog: the Story of a Scruffy, Soggy, Fat-As-A-Log Dog*, set in Las Cruces

SEKAQUAPTEWA, EMORY - Hopi editor & translator of Coyote and Little Turtle & Coyote and the Winnowing Birds

SETON, ERNEST THOMPSON - Santa Fe artist, naturalist, co-founder of the Cub Scouts of America & author of Wild Animals I Have Known

SEWARDS, MICHELE BOURQUE - Placitas' children's book illustrator

SEYMOUR, TRYNTJE VAN NESS - author & photographer who spends her summers lecturing on the art & archaeology of the Southwest (sometimes on raft trips through the Grand Canyon) & who spends the winter in Connecticut; & children’s author of The Gift of Changing Woman, which describes the traditional coming-of-age ceremony for young Apache women, in which they use dances & prayers to reenact the Apache story of creation, & celebrate the power of Changing Woman, the ancestor of their people

SHANAHAN, DANNY - Corrales' cartoonist & author of the picture book, Buckledown, the Workhound

SHEEHAN, PATTY - Albuquerque teacher, storyteller, picture book author of Gwendolyn’s Gifts, Kylie’s Concert, Kylie’s Song, & Shadow and the Ready Time

SHEMIE, BONNIE - Cleveland, Ohio-born, now Montreal author & illustrator of many titles including Houses of Adobe: Native Dwellings: the Southwest

SHEPHERD, URSULA - Albuquerque natural history author & teacher          

SHIRREFFS, GORDON D. - children’s author of The Rebel Trumpet*, set during the Civil War, in NM

SHPAKOW, TANYA - Michigan-raised artist, now Albuquerque author & illustrator of several children's picture books, including Baba & On the Way to Christmas

SIMMONS, MARC - Cerrillos' prize-winning historian & author of a history of New Mexico!; 2 historical stories, Jose’s Buffalo Hunt (set in NM) & Friday the Arapaho Boy (not set in NM); & the picture book, Millie Cooper's Ride: a True Story From History (also not set in NM)

SIMONS, VICKI - Albuquerque turtle rescue expert & author of The Box Turtle Handbook

SISNEROS, MICHELLE TSOSIE - Santa Clara Pueblo award-winning Illustrator of KATHLEEN BRYANT’s picture book Kokopelli's Gift. She’s the great niece of Pablita Velarde & niece of HELEN HARDIN.

SKREPCINSKI, DENICE - Albuquerque Pillsbury Bake-Off finalist, children’s cooking class teacher & co-author of Cody Coyote Cooks! & Silly Celebrations: Activities for the Strangest Holidays You’ve Never Heard of

SLATE, JOSEPH - although not a NM author, he wrote the beautiful Hispanic picture book about Epiphany, or the Night of the Three Kings: The Secret Stars, which is set in NM

SMITH, BEN - children’s author of Peril of the Peloncillos*

SMITH, JEANNETTE - children’s author of the 1940 novel, Tula, a Little Pueblo Girl*

SMITH, LEONARD K. - children’s author of the 1938 novel, Forty Days to Santa Fe*, which is set in Taos & on the Santa Fe Trail

SMITH, LINDA WASMER - Albuquerque medical journalist & author of the children’s biography, Louis Pasteur: Disease Fighter

SMITH, MARYLOU M. - 4th generation New Mexican, now living in Colorado, & author of Grandmother’s Adobe Dollhouse

SMITH, PATRICIA CLARK - UNM professor, poet, & co-author with PAULA GUNN ALLEN, of a collected biography of Native American leaders, As Long As the Rivers Flow: the Stories of Nine Native Americans, co-author with MICHAEL B. RUNNINGWOLF of On the Trail of Elder Brother: Glous'gap Stories of the Micmac Indians & Weetamoo, Chief of the Pocassets, a novel about the woman leader who met with the English colonists at Plymouth Colony

SMITH, SUSAN - Santa Fe author of two paperback series: "Best Friends" & the young adult novels of "Samantha Slade"

SMITH, THERESA KALAB - NM illustrator of LELA & RUFUS WALTRIP’s Quiet Boy & author & illustrator of the children’s novel, Poncho & the Pink Horse, set in Santa Fe

SOUKUP, MARTHA - former Albuquerque, now San Francisco, Nebula Award-winning science fiction author who is included in A Nightmare’s Dozen & A Starfarer’s Dozen

SPENCER, BRENNA - author of Kids First in New Mexico, which contains names & addresses of places of interest to children, most located in Albuquerque. It includes brief descriptions of activities or opportunities offered for most

SPENCER, GWYNNE - Albuquerque former bookseller & author of the book, Places to Go With Children In the Southwest & What's Cooking in Children's Literature

SPERRY, ARMSTRONG - Newbery Medal-winning children’s author & illustrator of many titles, including Wagons Westward*, a western set on the Santa Fe Trail

STANFORD, CANDICE - northern Minnesota-born, former reporter, freelance writer, photographer, former columnist of a weekly children's book review column for the Las Cruces Sun News & author of The Man Who Set the Town Dancing = El Hombre que Puso a Bailar a Todo el Pueblo

STANLEY, DIANE - Santa Fe children’s author & illustrator of many books, including Bard of Avon: the Story of William Shakespeare, Birdsong Lullaby, Captain Whiz-Bang, Charles Dickens: the Man Who had Great Expectations, Cleopatra, The Conversation Club, A Country Tale, The Good-Luck Pencil, Moe the Dog in Tropical Paradise, Raising Sweetness, Roughing it on the Oregon Trail, Rumpelstiltskin's Daughter, & A Time Apart (none set in NM)

STEVENS, JAN ROMERO - former Las Vegas native who lived for many years in Flagstaff, & who wrote bilingual books about a little boy who lives in Las Vegas: Carlos & the Carnival, Carlos & the Cornfield, Carlos & the Skunk, Carlos & the Squash Plant, Carlos Digs to China; & Twelve Lizards Leaping: a New Twelve Days of Christmas. She died in 2000.

STOCK, MELISSA T. - Albuquerque editor of the Chile Pepper magazine & co-author of Cody Coyote Cooks! & Silly Celebrations: Activities for the Strangest Holidays You’ve Never Heard of

STODDARD, MICHAEL EUGENE - author of The Porthole To Time*, the time-travel adventures of twin brothers Jeb & Jeremy Benally at Shiprock. It’s the resting place of an ancient Dutch sailing ship transported across the desert by the Navajos. During the journey, the porthole in the Captain's cabin was electrified by a freak lightning storm & became a portal to time.

STODDARD, WILLIAM OSBORN - children’s author of the 1918 novel, The Red Mustang*

STOUTENBURG, ADRIEN - Santa Fe author of American Tall-Tale Animals* & Fee, Fi, Fo, Fum: Friendly & Funny Giants

STREETER, FLOYD & AND FRANCIS, HELEN D. - Kansas children’s authors of the NM story, The Phantom Steer*

STRETE, CRAIG (KEE) - Hollywood author of many titles including the children’s novel, The World in Grandfather's Hands, about an 11-year-old who’s upset when he & his mother must move from the pueblo to the city after his father's death, but his grandfather's patient philosophy of life helps Jimmy adjust

STRIEGEL, JANA - Albuquerque author of a children's novel about an Albuquerque beginning ballerina, struck by rheumatoid arthritis, in Homeroom Exercise

STROCK, GLEN - illustrator of Kidding around the National Parks of the Southwest & On the Cliffs of Acoma: a Pueblo Story With a Short History of Acoma, a bilingual children’s novel

STRONG, BEVERLY JEAN - Santa Fe gallery owner, artist, a collector of Black folk art & toy animals, & author of Gypsy the Circus Dog: a Charming Story About a Poodle for Those Who Love Them*, who lives & is the official greeter at Jean's gallery

STRONGBOW, DYANNE - New Mexican Native American artist & illustrator of the Tohono O’dham picture book, Big Moon Tortilla

STUART, GORDON - children’s author of B P Ranch in Indian Land*, set in Fort Bayard & originally published as: The Boy Scouts of the Air in Indian Land*, in 1912

SUNSTROM, MARY - NM illustrator of the nonfiction Extremely Weird series: Birds, Fishes, Frogs, Insects, Primates, Reptiles, Sea Creatures, Snakes & Spiders

SWENTZELL, PORTER & ROSE - Santa Clara Pueblo children & authors of The Story of Rosie’s Rat

SWENTZELL, RINA - Santa Clara Pueblo-born, now Santa Fe, potter, teacher, & author of Children of Clay: a Family of Pueblo Potters

SWISHER, ROBERT K. - Santa Fe poet, rancher, mountain guide, author of many novels for adults & Only Magic, a NM love story between a young girl & a wild colt

TALBERT, MARC - Tesuque author of acclaimed & award-winning children's novels, including Dead Birds Singing, Double or Nothing (about a young magician), Heart of a Jaguar, Pillow of Clouds, Rabbit in the Rock (a kidnapping adventure, set in on ranch near Española), Star of Luís (about a young NM Hispanic boy who discovers his Jewish heritage), A Sunburned Prayer (about a boy who walks to Chimayó so his abuela won’t die of cancer) & The Trap. He is also included in Trapped! Cages of Mind & Body. His nonfiction book, Holding the Reins: a Ride Through Cowgirl Life, is also set partially in NM

TAGGART, MARION AMES - children’s author of Jack Hildreth Among the Indians*, set in NM & Winnetou, the Apache Knight*, in 1898, adapted from the work of Karl Friedrich May, a very popular 19th century German novelist

TAOS PUEBLO INDIAN SCHOOL'S 7TH-8TH GRADE PUPILS OF '67-'68 - authors of Oo-oónah Art; Taos Indian for "Child"

TAPAHONSO, LUCI - Navajo poet, former UNM assistant professor, now professor at the University of Kansas, & author of Navajo ABC: a Dine Alphabet Book & the beautiful picture book, Songs of Shiprock Fair, a young Navajo girl enjoys every part of the annual Shiprock Fair, including the dances, parade, carnival, exhibits, contests, food, & the chance to visit with relatives

TARBESCU, EDITH - Placitas author of Annushka's Voyage, a picture book about two Russian sisters who leave their Grandmother to join their father in New York, The Boy Who Stuck Out His Tongue: a Yiddish Folk Tale, Bring Back My Gerbil! & The Crow, a history of the Crow Indians

TAVO, GUS - pseudonym of Martha & Gustave Ivan, Kilgore, TX children’s authors of the NM stories: Hunt the Mountain Lion*, Ride the Pale Stallion* & Trail to Lone Canyon*, a mystery

TAYLOR, G. JEFFREY - Albuquerque scientist in the Department of Geology & the Institute of Meteoritics at UNM, & author of A Close Look at the Moon & Volcanoes In Our Solar System

TAYLOR, HARRIET PECK - author of the Pueblo children’s picture book, Secrets of the Stone: while chasing Jackrabbit, Coyote & Badger come upon a cave filled with wondrous drawings

TERRELL, JOHN UPTON - award-winning historian of the Old West, winner of the 1970 Spur Award of the Western Writers of America for the Best Juvenile Nonfiction, for Search for the Seven Cities: the Opening of the American Southwest

THOMAS, MARJORIE - an author, teacher & community activist from Chinle, Arizona. She was educated at UNM & in 1997; she retired as Assistant Superintendent of the Chinle Unified School District & currently serves as a member of the Chinle Unified School District Governing Board. She’s the author of Bidii* (the bilingual story of a young Navajo boy who learns to share & get along with others as his family travels to the annual sheep dip on the Navajo Nation) & What Does Died Mean*

THOMAS, SHELLEY MOORE - former Albuquerque, now California elementary school teacher & author of the picture books: Get Well, Good Knight, Good Night, Good Knight, Putting the World to Sleep & the nonfiction work, Somewhere Today: a Book of Peace

THOMPSON, EILEEN - Los Alamos Lab radio technician, later Albuquerque award-winning children’s author of the NM stories: The Blue-Stone Mystery*, The Golden Coyote, a historical Pueblo Indian story, about a lonely young man who attempts to run away with his pet coyote pup, on the Pajarito Plateau, The Spanish Deed Mystery* & White Falcon; an Indian Boy in Early America*, a Zuni story

THOMSON, PEGGY - although not a New Mexico author, she wrote the beautiful book, Katie Henio, Navajo Sheepherder

THURLO, AIMÉE & DAVID - Corrales novelists of New Mexican Native American romantic suspense novels, a horror novel & a young adult mystery: The Spirit Line, which involves the theft of the rug Crystal Manyfeathers was weaving for her kinaaldá, the traditional Navajo womanhood ceremony. David Thurlo taught for 25 years at Taylor Middle School.

TIMBERLAKE, AMY - Richmond, VA author of The Dirty Cowboy, a rollicking, slapstick picture book about a filthy cowboy & his faithful dog, set in NM

TIREMAN, L. S. (LOYD S.) - 1930s UNM professor of education, founder of the San José Training School & the Nambé school; & author of several children’s books, all adapted by Evelyn Yrisarri & illustrated by Ralph Douglass: Baby Jack & Jumping Jack Rabbit, Big Fat, Cocky, Dumbee, Hop-a-Long, Quills: Stories & 3 Toes

TITUS, EVE - nationally known children’s author of several series, including Basil in the Wild West*, a mystery set in Moriarty

TODDY, IRVING - the oldest son of famed Navajo artist Beatien Yazz, he attended Utah State University where he studied painting & illustration. He & several other Navajo painters became known as the "Gallup Realists." Because his work is so realistic, it is greatly different from traditional Navajo painting. One of his favorite subjects is Canyon de Chelly. He began illustrating children’s books with Lenore Keeshig-Tobias' Bird-Talk*, & Jill Rubalcaba's retelling of Uncegila's Seventh Spot*. His painting was used for the book jacket of Waterless Mountain by LAURA ADAMS ARMER & he’s provided numerous illustrations for Cricket magazine articles. He’s also the illustrator of Canyon Boy by AVRUM ORGANICK, Cheyenne Again by Eve Bunting & Dzání Yázhí Naazbaa’: Little Woman Warrior Who Came Home, a Story of the Navajo Long Walk*. He now lives in Window Rock & works primarily in oil & acrylic paint, but he is also skilled with watercolor & pen & ink. He was awarded the "Best in Show" prize at the 64th Inter-Tribal Indian Ceremonial in Gallup.

TOMLINSON, EVERETT TITSWORTH - children’s author of the 1917 novels, Scouting in the Desert* & Scouting with General Funston*, both of which are set in NM

TOOMER, JEAN - Harlem Renaissance poet, & New Mexico resident who is included in I, Too, Sing America: Three Centuries of African American Poetry

TORRES, ELIZAR - local author of The Americans Are Coming: a Historical Story for Young Readers, a historical novel set during the Mexican-American War, when General Kearny came to Tomé

TORREZ, ROBERT - the New Mexican State Historian, Albuquerque author included in the NM issue of Cobblestone Magazine: American History for Kids

TRACY, LIBBA - award-winning Phoenix watercolor artist & illustrator of LISA SHOOK BEGAYE’s Building a Bridge, a story about two little kids, one Navajo & the other her Anglo friend; & KEN BUCHANAN’s This House is Made of Mud

TRAHANT, LENORA BEGAY - Navajo author of The Success of the Navajo Arts and Crafts Enterprise

TRIMBLE, STEPHEN - former NM paleontologist & author of The Village of Blue Stone, illustrated by Jennifer Owings Dewey, about the day-to-day life throughout a year in a Chaco Culture Anasazi pueblo

TRIPP, VALERIE - although not a New Mexico author, this "American Girls" series author has written many historical novels, set in colonial New Mexico: Again Josefina!, Changes for Josefina: a Winter Story, Happy Birthday, Josefina! a Springtime Story, Josefina Learns a Lesson: a School Story, Josefina Saves the Day, Josefina’s Surprise: a Christmas Story, Just Josefina, Meet Josefina, A Reward for Josefina & Thanks to Josefina. They are available in Spanish as well as English. There are two additional nonfiction Josefina books: Welcome to Josefina's World, 1824: Growing Up on America's Southwest Frontier (no author) - j 978.903 Welcome; & TAMARA ENGLAND’s Josefina's Cookbook: a Peek at Dining in the Past With Meals You Can Cook Today - j 641.5972 England

TSINAJINNIE, ANDY - Navajo musician, muralist, painter, creator of folk art sculptures & illustrator of Black Mountain Boy: a Story of the Boyhood of John Honie, by VADA CARLSON & GARY WITHERSPOON; Denetsosie, by Broderick H. Johnson; Peetie, The Pack Rat, And Other Desert Stories by Van Clark & Shush'ma by ELIZABETH M. LAURITZEN

TURKLE, BRINTON - Ohio-born & raised, long-time Santa Fe Quaker author & illustrator of the picture-book series about Obadiah Starbuck & his Quaker family who live on Nantucket in the early 1800s: Obadiah the Bold, Thy Friend Obadiah, & Rachel and Obadiah; & the other picture books, Deep in the Forest & Do Not Open. He also illustrated Lucille Clifton’s The Boy Who Didn't Believe In Spring, Freya Littledale’s The Elves & the Shoemaker & Lydia Maria Child’s Over the River & Through the Wood

TURNER, ANN WARREN - not a local author, but well-respected author of historical novels, including The Girl Who Chased Away Sorrow (part of the Dear America series), about a young Navajo girl who suffers cold, hunger, & fear on the Long Walk, when soldiers force her people to walk hundreds of miles to imprisonment at Fort Sumner

TUSA, TRICIA - Houston-born & raised, now Santa Fe author of many beloved picture books, including Bunnies In My Head, Chicken (not set in NM), The Family Reunion, Libby's New Glasses (not set in NM), Maebelle’s Suitcase, Miranda (not set in NM) & Stay Away From the Junkyard. She’s also the illustrator of Avi’s The End of the Beginning: Being the Adventures of a Small Snail (& an Even Smaller Ant), Steven Kroll’s Loose Tooth, Mem Fox’s The Magic Hat & Jacquelyn Mitchard’s Starring Prima!: the Mouse of the Ballet Jolie, among many others. She’s been an art therapist with learning-disabled & emotionally disturbed children, AIDS patients, & psychiatric-care patients at hospitals including Mount Sinai in NYC; & an art instructor at many institutions, including the Houston Retarded Center; she was also a designer & illustrator for DC Comics, & is the head chef at soup kitchen in Santa Fe

TUTTLE, HOWARD N. - Albuquerque Philosophy Department chairman at UNM & author of Fire Night: a Story of Pompeii

TWEIT, SUSAN J. - former Las Cruces, now Salida, Colorado naturalist, radio commentator & author of City Foxes & Meet the Wild Southwest: Land of Hoodoos and Gila Monsters

TWINEM, NEECY - Cedar Crest award-winning author & illustrator of Aye-Ayes, Bears, and Condors: an ABC of Endangered Animals and Their Babies & E is for Enchantment: a New Mexico Alphabet

Unofficial Guide to the Rio Grande Zoo: Paw in Hand, You Can Make a Difference, developed by the 6th grade gifted program at Eisenhower Middle School - j 590.74478961 Unofficial

VALLO, LAWRENCE JONATHAN - Jemez/Acoma Pueblo author & illustrator of an autobiographical novel, Tales of a Pueblo Boy

VAN CLEVE, BARBARA - Santa Fe award-winning photographer & author, member of the Cowgirl Hall of Fame, & the photographer of Holding the Reins: a Ride Through Cowgirl Life, a children's nonfiction book, set partially in NM.

VARDEMAN, ROBERT E. - Albuquerque author of more than 75 science fiction & Star Trek novels, most, available only in paperback, except the young adult story, Road to the Stars, about 17- year-old Cliff Macklin who discovered the ruins of an alien culture while he accompanied his scientist parents on an exploratory voyage to another star system

VAUGHAN, MARCIA - Washington state school librarian in Australia & New Zealand, & author of the Pueblo picture books, Kissing Coyotes & Night Dancer: Mythical Piper of the Native American Southwest

VERGARA, GEORGE L. - Albuquerque-born heart doctor & author of Hugh Robinson, Pioneer Aviator

VICTOR, RALPH - children’s author of the 1908 novel, Comrades in New Mexico; or The Round-Up*

VIOLETTE, HALLIE HALL & DARBY, ADA CLAIRE - children’s authors of the 1941 NM story, On the Trail to Santa Fe

WALLACE, BILL - children’s novelist of The Final Freedom, about the friendship between a 13- year-old & Geronimo, in which both win a special kind of freedom

WALTERS, ANNA LEE - Native American author who went to school in Santa Fe, & author of The Two-Legged Creature: an Otoe Story

WALTERS, HARRY - Navajo painter, staff artist at the Museum of Navajo Ceremonial Art, in Santa Fe & illustrator of Navajo Bird Tales by FRANC JOHNSON NEWCOMB

WALTRIP, LELA & RUFUS - Artesia public school teachers, poets, & authors of Southwestern nonfiction, including: Indian Women; Thirteen Who Played a Part in the History of America From Earliest Days to Now; children’s novels, The Purple Hills*, set in Tucumcari & Quiet Boy, a Navajo story

WARM DAY, JONATHAN - Taos Pueblo artist & author/illustrator of Taos Pueblo: Painted Stories, about how life used to be when he was a kid, with intricate & beautiful paintings

WARNER, GERTRUDE CHANDLER - the author of the popular Boxcar Children series, her Mystery of the Lost Village, when visiting the Navajo reservation, the Aldens try to save a forest by proving it is the site of a lost, buried village, but someone sabotages their dig

WARREN, BILLY (WILLIAM STEPHEN) - Colorado cattle rancher & children’s author of Silver Spurs*, a story set in Wagon Mound

WARREN, SCOTT S. - Santa Fe-raised, now Durango photographer & author of the children’s books, Cities in the Sand: the Ancient Civilizations of the Southwest (about the Anasazi, the Hohokam, and the Mogollon) & Desert Dwellers: Native People of the American Southwest

WEAVER, DOROTHY HINES - Glendale, AZ author of New Mexico A to Z, about the fascinating & beautiful features & creatures of New Mexico

WEBSTER, FRANK V. - 1910’s children’s author of Comrades of the Saddle; or, the Young Rough Riders of the Plains*

WEISMAN, JOAN - author of the children’s Pueblo picture book, The Storyteller, about a young Pueblo girl who finds a friend in an elderly neighbor with whom she shares stories of her people, & in return hears stories of Miss Lottie's life

WENDER, LEON - author of the picture book, The Little Brown Roadrunner

WEST, JERRY - pseudonym of Andrew Edward Svenson, author of many titles, including a 1950’s children’s mystery series, which includes two NM titles, The Happy Hollisters & the Indian Treasure*: the family’s friend, a “Yumatan” Indian tells them about his pueblo & his tribe's lost turquoise mine. They come to NM & end up foiling thieves & finding a clue to the mine; & The Happy Hollisters at Mystery Mountain*

WESTREICH, BUDD - children’s author of Please Stand Clear of the Apache Arrows*, a mystery set in Carlsbad Caverns

WHITETHORNE, BAJE - Navajo painter, author & illustrator of Sunpainters: Eclipse of the Navajo Sun & illustrator of Monster Birds: a Navajo Folktale & Monster Slayer: a Navajo Folktale

WHITNEY, PHYLLIS A. - award-winning popular author of many mysteries, including Secret of Haunted Mesa*, set at Ghost Ranch

WILLIAMS, BARBARA - Salt Lake City author of many popular novels, including Mitzi and Frederick the Great, set in an archaeological dig at Chaco & The Secret Name, a story about a Navajo girl

WILLIAMS, GARTH - NYC-born, later renowned Santa Fe author of Benjamin's Treasure, The Chicken Book & The Rabbits' Wedding; & illustrator of many classic picture books by authors such as Byrd Baylor (Amigo), Margaret Wise Brown (Fox Eyes, Little Fur Family & Wait Till the Moon is Full), Natalie Savage Carlson (The Family Under the Bridge & The Happy Orpheline), Russell Hoban (Bedtime for Frances), JACK PRELUTSKY (Beneath a Blue Umbrella: Rhymes & Ride a Purple Pelican: Rhymes), George Selden (Chester Cricket's Pigeon Ride, Chester Cricket's New Home, The Cricket in Times Square, Harry Cat's Pet Puppy, Harry Kitten and Tucker Mouse, The Old Meadow, & Tucker's Countryside), Margery Sharp (The Rescuers & Miss Bianca), Mary Stolz (Emmett's Pig), E.B. White (both Stuart Little & Charlotte’s Web), Laura Ingalls Wilder (By the Shores of Silver Lake, Farmer Boy, The First Four Years, Little House in the Big Woods, Little House on the Prairie, Little Town on the Prairie, The Long Winter, On the Banks of Plum Creek) & Charlotte Zolotow (Over and Over & The Sky Was Blue)

WISHART, CATHERINE - Albuquerque award-winning make-up artist who grew up in New Zealand, journalist, teacher of goddess classes for over 10 years, & author of Teen Goddess: How to Look, Love & Live Like a Goddess, for young adults

WITHERSPOON, GARY - co-author of Grandfather Stories of the Navahos & with VADA CARLSON, Black Mountain Boy: a Story of the Boyhood of John Honie, a story about a Navajo medicine man, which is illustrated by ANDY TSINAJINNIE (filed in j Fiction under Carlson)

WIZ KIDS, ARMIJO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL see ARMIJO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ALBUQUERQUE NM WIZ KIDS

WIZ KIDS OF OZ, LA MESA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL see LA MESA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ALBUQUERQUE NM WIZ KIDS OF OZ

WOLKOFF, JUDIE - Montana & Idaho-raised, Santa Fe children’s author who had a short childhood career as a pet funeral director. She’s the Santa Fe co-author with BARBARA BEASLEY MURPHY, of Ace Hits Rock Bottom & Ace Hits the Big Time, & the author of Happily Ever After-- Almost, In A Pig's Eye & Where the Elf King Sings

WOLVERTON, ETHEL TRAUGH - children’s author of The House on the Desert*, a mystery set in NM

WOOD, NANCY - Santa Fe photographer, poet & award-winning author of several excellent books on Pueblo life & religion, including Dancing Moons (poems about Taos Pueblo), The Girl Who Loved Coyotes (stories about the Southwest), Hollering Sun (about Taos), Old Coyote (a picture story about death), Sacred Fire (poems & paintings about the Pueblos) & Spirit Walker (also poems about Taos Pueblo)

WORCESTER, DONALD EMMET - Texas author of a New Mexico adventure story, about a horse owned by Hispanic ranchers & then several Indian tribes, in War Pony

WORMSER, RICHARD - Santa Fe winner of a Spur Award from the Western Writers of America, & author of Kidnapped Circus, set in Territorial Las Cruces & Albuquerque

WUNDERLI, STEPHEN - Salt Lake City creative director for a small advertising agency & author of The Blue Between the Clouds, a 1940s Navajo story, set in a small Utah town

YEAGER, DORR - author of Bob Flame Among the Navajo, a Navajo story

YODER, WALTER D. - Albuquerque children’s author of The American Pueblo Indian Activity Book, The Big American Southwest Activity Book, The Big New Mexico Activity Book, The Big Spanish Heritage Activity Book & The Santa Fe Trail Activity Book

ZEHLER, ANTONIA - Albuquerque children's illustrator & author of Two Fine Ladies Have a Tiff, a beginning reader about friendship

ZELAZNY, ROGER - world-wide known, Santa Fe award-winning author of intelligent science fiction stories, including A Dark Traveling (set partially in Santa Fe)

ZINDEL, PAUL - New Jersey author of The Gadget, set in 1945, a story about a 13-year old who joined his father at Los Alamos, where he & other scientists were working on the Manhattan Project to end World War II

ZUMWALT, EVA - Eunice-born, Artesia-raised children’s author of Sun Dust*, also published as Sun Dust, Devil Horse*, a NM story

Additional information on authors & titles can also be found in:

Books Are By People: Interviews With 104 Authors and Illustrators of Books for Young Children - Hopkins, Lee - j Reference 928 H794

Fifth Book of Junior Authors & Illustrators - ed. by Sally Holmes Holtze - j Reference 928 J95 1983

Fourth Book of Junior Authors & Illustrators - ed. by Doris de Montreville & Elizabeth D. Crawford - j Reference 928 F781 1978

Junior Book of Authors - ed. by Stanley J. Kunitz & Howard Haycraft - j Reference 928 J95 1951

Major Authors and Illustrators for Children and Young Adults - ed. by Laurie Collier - j Reference 928 M234

More Junior Authors - j Reference 928 J95

Seventh Book of Junior Authors & Illustrators - ed. by Sally Holmes Holtze - j Reference 928 Seventh 1996

Sixth Book of Junior Authors & Illustrators - ed. by Sally Holmes Holtze - j Reference 928 Junior 1989

Something About the Author - j Reference 928 Something

Speaking for Ourselves: Autobiographical Sketches by Notable Authors of Books for Young Adults - ed. by Donald R. Gallo - j 810.9 S741

Speaking for Ourselves. Too: More Autobiographical Sketches by Notable Authors of Books for Young Adults  ed. by Donald R. Gallo - j 813.54099283 S741

Third Book of Junior Authors - ed. by Doris de Montreville & Donna Hill - j Reference 928 D384

What Do Children Read Next?: a Reader’s Guide to Fiction for Children - ed. by Candy Colborn - j Reference 016.81300809283 Colborn

What Do Young Adults Read Next?: a Reader’s Guide to Fiction for Young Adults - ed. by Pam Spenser - j Reference 016.81300809283 Spencer

With Thanks to the Youth Services Staff of the Albuquerque/Bernalillo County Library System

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