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Hispano Writers of New Mexico   "Plαticas: Conversations With Hispano Writers of
New Mexico" [2000]
by Nasario Garcia

Texas Tech Univ Press 9¼x6¼ hardcover [3/2000] for $29.94
In Company, An Anthology of New Mexico Poets book edited by Lee Bartlett, V.B. Price & Dianne Edwards   "In Company: An Anthology of New Mexico Poets After 1960" [2004]
Edited by Lee Bartlett, V.B. Price & Dianne Edenfield Edwards

featured poets include Rudolfo Anaya, Jimmy Santiago Baca, Witter Bynner, Robert Creeley, Joy Harjo, Kate Horsley, Demetria Martinez, N. Scott Momaday, Simon Ortiz, Arthur Sze, Nathaniel Tarn, Charles Tomlinson, Jay Wright, and the three editors
Univ NM Press &7frac12x6¼ pb [4/2004] for $26.56
A Woman's Place, Women Writing New Mexico book by Maureen Reed  "A Woman's Place: Women Writing New Mexico" [2005]
by Maureen Reed

featuring the lives & work of Navajo writer & activist Kay Bennett; authors Mary Austin, Fabiola Cabeza de Baca & Cleofas Jaramillo; arts patron Mabel Dodge Luhan; and Pueblo Indian painter & author Pablita Velarde
Univ NM Press 9x5¾ pb [5/2005] for $21.95

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Daniel Abraham of Albuquerque, NM
browse books • official website • Wikipedia

Daniel Abraham entry at Internet Speculative Fiction Database

author-publisher Adela Amador of Albuquerque, NM
browse books • official website

Rudolfo A. Anaya Page
at Spirit of America Bookstore

Clyde James Aragσn of Albuquerque, NM
books • official website

Ana Baca: browse books

poet & teacher Jimmy Santiago Baca of Albuquerque, NM
browse books • official website • IMDb listing • Wikipedia

poet David Barber of Albuquerque, NM

Doug Beason, PhD of Albuquerque, NM
browse books • official website • Wikipedia

Doug Beason entry at Internet Speculative Fiction Database

Albuquerque Journal columnist Jim Belshaw

Juan Blea of Santa Fe, NM
books • novel "Butterfly Warrior" [new 2006]

Western author Johnny D. Boggs of Santa Fe, NM
browse books • official website

Myron Brinig [1896-1991]
Lived in Taos, NM in 1933-34 and 1939-55; he wrote 22 largely-forgotten novels.
Myron Brinig Page at Spirit of America Bookstore

Taos Truth Game novel by Earl Ganz  "The Taos Truth Game: A Novel" [2006] by Earl Ganz
A fictional account of Myron Brinig's time in New Mexico, among literary figures Mabel Dodge Luhan, Frieda Lawrence, Robinson & Una Jeffers, and Frank Waters, with cameo appearances by Gertrude Stein & Henry Roth
Univ NM Press 9x6 pb [1/2007] for $12.95
Univ NM Press 9¼x5¾ hardcover [3/2006] for $18.96

Don Bullis of Rio Rancho, NM
books • official website

Old West Trivia Book by Don Bullis  
"Old West Trivia Book (New and Completely Revised)"
[orig 1992, rev 2009] by Don Bullis

Rio Grande Books 9x6 pb [4/2009] for $14.00  
Gem Guides Book Co. 9x6 pb [12/92] for $10.95

mystery author Harlen Campbell of Santa Fe, NM
books • official website

Monkey on a Chain mystery novel by Harlen Campbell  "Monkey On A Chain: A Novel of Suspense" [1993]
Vietnam vet Rainbow Porter learns that a former buddy & partner in black market dealings was recently killed by a trip mine, and that the man's adopted daughter, a Eurasian beauty, fears that she will be killed next.
Poisoned Pen Press 8½x5½ pb [2/99] for $11.66
Doubleday 9¼x6 hardcover [8/93] out of print/many used
Jennifer's Weave mystery novel by Harlen Campbell  "Jennifer's Weave" [2009]
New Mexican Rainbow Porter discovers a body in his neighbor's house and the neighbor is missing; the body is identified as a man who died many years before, and the cops suspect Rainbow in the murder.
ABQ Press 8½x5½ pb [10/2009] for $11.96
Sea of Deception book by    "Sea of Deception" [2009]
A small town in west Texas took a gamble on the future and got ripped off for over twenty million in a revenue bond scam. A grieving widower from out of town and a local beauty team up for revenge against the ruthless crowd who continue to profit from deadly exploitation of the innocent.
ABQ Press 8½x5½ pb [10/2009] for $13.22

sci-fi/fantasy author Suzy McKee Charnas of Albuquerque, NM
browse books • official website • Wikipedia

Suzy McKee Charnas entry at Internet Speculative Fiction Database

Pamela Christie of Santa Fe, NM
+ mysteries of Colonial New Mexico, circa 1780

King's Lizard mystery novel by Pamela Christie  "The King's Lizard: A Tale of Murder & Deception In Old Santa Fe, 1782" [2004]
Someone murders a military commander right on the Santa Fe Plaza, and Governor Anda asks a member of his spy network, the half-breed Nando, to find the killer. Nando's investigations lead to slavers, corrupt priests, and ultimately to a traitor against the crown.
Lone Butte Press 8½x5½ pb [8/2004] for $11.66
Dead Lizard's Dance mystery novel by Pamela Christie  "Dead Lizard's Dance: A Tale of Love, Murder & Witchery In Old Santa Fe" [2009]
A series of gruesome deaths continues despite the efforts of Governor Anda's police, so he again asks Nando for help in stopping further crimes.
Lone Butte Press 8½x5½ pb [9/2009] for $14.95

Rick Collignon of Santa Fe, NM
Rick Collignon is a stylist who combines magical realism, spare prose, and deadpan humor.
browse books • Facebook page • official website {being repaired 6/2009}

Journal of Antonio Montoya novel by Rick Collignon   "The Journal of Antonio Montoya: A Novel" [1996]
A spinster painter in the village of Guadalupe, New Mexico lives in a house inhabited by the ghosts of dead relatives who talk to her, do chores, and occasionally borrow her truck. Against the wishes of her brother Flavio, she takes in her nephew after the boy's parents are killed when their speeding pickup hits a cow.
Unbridled Books pb [8/2009] for $12.95  
Harper Perennial 7x5 pb [10/97] out of print/used
MacAdam/Cage 6½x4¾ hardcover [5/96] out of print/many used
"Los Espνritus de la Casa Montoya" [1997]
New Media Spanish-language 8x5 pb [4/98] out of print/used

Perdido novel by Rick Collignon   "Perdido: A Novel" [1997]
A 20-year Anglo resident of the village of Guadalupe, New Mexico gets curious about a white girl found many years before hanging by a rope from a bridge, and his inquiry triggers sudden violence and death.
Harper Perennial 6¾x5 pb [2/99] out of print/used
MacAdam/Cage 8x7¼ hardcover [7/97] for $19.50
Santo In The Image of Cristobal Garcia novel by Rick Collignon   "A Santo In The Image of Cristσbal Garcνa: A Novel" [2002]
A fire destroys much of the village of Guadalupe, New Mexico and a long-mute resident suddenly speaks, accusing Flavio Montoya of setting the fire.
Blue Hen 8¼x5½ pb [10/2003] out of print/used
Blue Hen 8½x5¾ hardcover [10/2002] out of print/used
Madewell Brown novel by Rick Collignon  "Madewell Brown: A Novel" [2009]
After the death of the grandfatherly guardian of a young black girl in Cairo, Illinois, the girl finds mementoes about her baseball-playing grandfather, Madewell Brown; a young man in the village of Guadalupe, New Mexico finds an old bag that contains an unsent letter, which he mails – to the deceased guardian in Illinois.
Unbridled Books hardcover 8¼x5¾ [5/2009] for $17.96

Jerry R. Davis of Albuquerque, NM: books

Stephen R. Donaldson of Corrales, NM
browse books • official website • Wikipedia

Stephen R. Donaldson entry at Internet Speculative Fiction Database

James D. Doss of Los Alamos & Taos, NM
+ Ute Indian cop Charlie Moon mysteries
browse books • series books

John Duncklee of Las Cruces, NM
browse books • official website

Martha Egan of Santa Fe, NM
browse books • publisher Papalote Press

Melvin Eisenstadt of Corrales, NM
books • official website

Max Evans of Albuquerque, NM
at 'Readers of The Purple Sage' Western Bookstore

Elizabeth Fackler of Capitαn, NM
all books • official website

eco-activist Doug Fine of Mimbres (Grant County), NM
browse books • official website

Edith Duven Flaherty of Bosque Farms, NM
books • author page

author-poet Mary Fogarty of Bosque Farms, NM
books • booksite


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author-poet Nasario Garcia of Santa Fe, NM
books • official website

author-activist Chellis Glendinning of Chimayσ, NM
browse books • homepage

writer-teacher Natalie Goldberg of Taos, NM
browse books • official website • Wikipedia

Steven Gould of Albuquerque, NM
browse books • IMDb listing • official website • Wikipedia

Steven Gould entry at Internet Speculative Fiction Database

his wife Laura J. Mixon
browse books • official website {under construction} • Wikipedia

Laura J. Mixon entry at Internet Speculative Fiction Database

Melody Groves {aka Mesa Dean} of Albuquerque, NM
books • official website

Fred R. Harris of Albuquerque, NM
browse books • UNM homepage

Steven F. Havill of Raton, NM
all books • Posadas County mysteries • Wikipedia

historical author Mary Lou Heaphy: official website

historian Jeff Hengesbaugh of Glorieta Pass, NM

mystery author Tony Hillerman [1925-2008] of Albuquerque, NM
at 'Readers of The Purple Sage' Western Bookstore

Philip L. Hosford of Albuquerque, NM
books • UNM homepage

Jon Hovis of Rio Rancho, NM
browse books • official website

Allegra Huston of Taos, NM
browse books • official website • full credits at IMDb • Wikipedia

daughter of director John Huston [1906-87]
co-owner of Los Rios River Runners [est. 1978]
co-director of The Writing Salon [est. 2004]

Oliver La Farge [1901-63]
books • IMDb listing • Wikipedia

Oliver La Farge papers at UTX-Austin

D.H. Lawrence [1885-1930] lived in Taos, NM 1922-25
browse books • credits at IMDb • Broadway credits • Wikipedia

D.H. Lawrence Heritage pages on Broxtowe Borough Council, U.K. website
online D.H. Lawrence biography at University of Nottingham, U.K.
GG's U.K. D.H. Lawrence fansite

New Mexico-related Works
"St. Mawr and Other Stories" [1925]
"The Plumed Serpent" [1926]
"Mornings In Mexico" [1927]
"The Woman Who Rode Away and Other Stories" [1928]

Lisa Lenard-Cook of Corrales, NM
browse books • official website

Jane Lindskold of Cedar Crest, NM
browse books • official website

Jane Lindskold entry at Internet Speculative Fiction Database

Larry Lockridge of Cerrillos, NM
1994 bio of his father, Ross Jr.

Ross Lockridge, Jr. [1914-48] of Illinois
books • credits at IMDb • 'Raintree County' website • Wikipedia

Sarah Lovett of Santa Fe, NM
browse books • official website

Charles Fletcher Lummis [1859-1928] Page


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George R.R. Martin of Santa Fe, NM
browse books • official website • IMDb listing • Wikipedia

George R.R. Martin entry at Internet Speculative Fiction Database

author-activist Demetria Martinez
books • official website

author Robert Mayer of Santa Fe, NM
browse books • publisher's author page

Cormac McCarthy of Tesuque, NM
browse books • IMDb listing • Wikipedia

Cormac McCarthy Society [est. 1995]
DC's Cormac McCarthy unofficial site

mystery author Michael McGarrity of Santa Fe, NM
at 'Readers of The Purple Sage' Western Bookstore

Prof. Kevin McIlvoy at N.M.S.U.
browse books • official faculty homepage

poet & radio host Don McIver of Albuquerque, NM
books • official website

playwright & teacher Mark Medoff of Las Cruces, NM
books • Broadway credits • credits at IMDb • official website • Wikipedia

employed as Artistic Director at N.M.S.U.'s Creative Media Institute

historian Prof. Richard Melzer at U.N.M.-Valencia
books • H.S.N.M. bio page

"Valencia County, New Mexico: History Through the Photographer's Lens"
[2002] by Margaret Espinosa McDonald & Richard Melzer
Donning hardcover [12/2002] out of print/rare

Images of America Fred Harvey Houses of the Southwest book by Richard Melzer   "Images of America: Fred Harvey Houses of The Southwest" [2008]
by Richard Melzer

Arcadia Publng 9x6½ pb [11/2008] for $14.95

Harvey House Restaurants Page at 'Readers of The Purple Sage' Bookstore

Victor Milαn of Albuquerque, NM
also writes under several pseudonyms, including Westerns as J.D. Hardin & Jake Logan
browse books • official website • Wikipedia

Victor Milαn entry at Internet Speculative Fiction Database

John J. Miller
books • IMDb listing • Wikipedia

John J. Miller entry at Internet Speculative Fiction Database

Jonathan Miller: books

Kiowa author N. Scott Momaday of Jιmez Springs, NM
browse books • IMDb listing • Wikipedia

Buffalo Trust bio page

David Morrell of Santa Fe, NM
wrote the 'Rambo' novels and 30 other books
browse books • IMDb listing • official website • Wikipedia

New Mexico political blogger Joe Monahan

Sean Murphy of Taos, NM
books • official website

Pati Nagle of Albuquerque, NM
browse fantasy books • official fantasy website

writing as P.G. Nagle
browse Western bookss • official Westerns website

writer Sharon Niederman
browse books • official website

author/philosopher/revolutionary G.E. Nordell of Belιn, NM
official website • detective novels • philosophy/activism websites • weblog {est. 10/2005}

author-artist Albert Noyer of Sandia Park, NM
browse books • author's website

Jake Page of Corrales, NM: browse books

writer & filmmaker Jacques Paisner of Santa Fe, NM:
credits on IMDb

Albuquerque Blues stories & plays by Jacques Paisner  
"Albuquerque Blues: Short Fiction & Plays" [2007]
by Jacques Paisner

TouchArt Books 9x6 hardcover [2/2007] for $21.95
MySpace bookpage
Rejection 2009 independent film by Jacques Paisner  "Rejection" [indep Feb 2009]
A bloody soap opera of skateboard punks and love-crazy waitresses in Santa Fe and Taos, New Mexico. Written, produced & directed by Jacques Paisner; starring Raoul Paisner, David Moore, Noelani Sing, Ana Martinez, Gary Farmer, Anthony Chavez, Janelle Guzman, Ethan Herzog, Gemini Kline & Natalia Mendez
video/DVD not yet available; full credits at IMDb

Jeffrey B. Paul of Albuquerque, NM

Inside Politics In America / View From The Outside book by Jeffrey B. Paul  
"Inside Politics In America: A View From The Outside [2009]
by Jeffrey B. Paul

official booksite

YA author Gary Paulsen
browse books • publisher page

Dr. Richard E. Peck of Placitas, NM
browse books • official website

Abe Peρa of Grants, NM
browse books • official website

Elaine Pinkerton of Santa Fe, NM
browse books • author's blog

writer & editor Charles C. Poling
Su Casa Southwestern Magazine

Lisa Polisar of Albuquerque, NM
browse books • official website

author Jack Purcell & Nine Lives Press in Placitas, NM

cowboy humorist Slim Randles of Albuquerque, NM
browse books • official website

Sun Dog Days  
"Sun Dog Days" [2006] by Slim Randles
"... filled with quick wit and earthy insight." — Max Evans
Univ NM Press 8x5½ pb [3/2007] for $12.89
Univ NM Press 8¼x5¾ hardcover [3/2006] for $18.96

Eugene Manlove Rhodes [1869-1934]
browse books • credits on IMDb

Sandpapers  
"Sandpapers: The Lives & Letters of Eugene Manlove Rhodes & Charles Fletcher Lummis" [1994]
by Frank M. Clark

Sunstone Press 8½x5½ pb [5/94] for $14.95

Charles Fletcher Lummis [1859-1928] Page at Spirit of America Bookstore


http://www.amazon.com/Four-Faces-West-Joel-McCrea/dp/B00009NH9T/

John Maddox Roberts
browse books • Wikipedia

John Maddox Roberts entry at Internet Speculative Fiction Database

Roman Senator Decius / S.P.Q.R. series
series books {English & German} • Wikipedia

Lois Ruby of Albuquerque, NM
browse books • official website

Penny Rudolph of Albuquerque, NM
browse books • official website

May 2010 interview at ELLA Book Club website


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sci-fi author Fred Saberhagen [1930-2007] of Albuquerque, NM
browse books • official website • Wikipedia

Robert Bruce Salter
Chamisa Dreams  
"Chamisa Dreams: A Novel" [1994]
by R.B. Salter

An archeologist new to the Navajo Nation is surprised by the reality of
reservation life, and by death in the shadow of corporate uranium mining.

Sunstone Press 8¼x5¼ pb [11/94] for $12.95

outdoor writer John G. 'Jack' Samson [1922-2007] of Santa Fe, NM
browse books

poet Tony Sanchez

Poetry of New Mexico  
"The Poetry of New Mexico" [2007]
by T. Sanchez

iUniverse 8¾x6 pb [8/2007] for $9.95

poet Joe Ray Sandoval of Chimayσ, NM
official website • IMDb listing

mystery author Walter Satterthwait of Santa Fe, NM
browse books • official website

Virginia Scharff of U.N.M. and Albuquerque, NM
all books • mysteries as Virginia Swift

Connie Shelton of Angel Fire, NM
browse books • official website

history & outdoor author Hampton Sides of Santa Fe, NM
all books • IMDb listing • Wikipedia

historian Marc Simmons: books

writes a weekly column for the Santa Fe New Mexican newspaper [on Saturday 2009]

cowboy author John L. Sinclair [1902-93]
browse books • autobiography [1996]

Susan Slater of Albuquerque, NM
all books • official website

Melinda M. Snodgrass of Santa Fe County, NM
all books • IMDb listing • official website • Wikipedia

Melinda Snodgrass entry at Internet Speculative Fiction Database

Tom Spurgeon of Silver City, NM
books • Comics Reporter website

Lynn Stegner of Santa Fe, NM
books • official website {redirect}

S.M. Stirling of Santa Fe, NM
browse books • official website • Wikipedia

S.M. Stirling entry at Internet Speculative Fiction Database

anthropologist David E. Stuart of U.N.M. and Albuquerque, NM
browse books • author's booksite

historian Ferenc Morton Szasz of U.N.M. and Albuquerque, NM
books

mystery author Pari Noskin Taichert of Albuquerque, NM
browse books • official website

Sasha Solomon mystery series official website

Margaret Tessler of Albuquerque, NM
books • official website

Aimιe & David Thurlo of Corrales, NM
browse books • official website

Lowell Tollefson of Tomι, NM
browse books

Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez
books • official website • blog

mystery author Judith Van Gieson of Albuquerque, NM
browse books • official website

partner in ABQ Press [est. 2005] in Rio Rancho, NM

Robert E. Vardeman of Albuquerque, NM
books • official website

Robert E. Vardeman entry at Internet Speculative Fiction Database

Sara Voorhees of Corrales, NM
browse books • official website

Sage Walker
browse books • Wikipedia

Sage Walker entry at Internet Speculative Fiction Database

Gerald M. Weinberg of Albuquerque, NM
browse books • official website

writer-activist Dave Wheelock of Socorro, NM

sci-fi author Walter Jon Williams of Belιn, NM
browse books • official homepage

Walter Jon Williams entry at Internet Speculative Fiction Database

Jack Williamson [1908-2006] of Portales, NM
"The Dean of Science Fiction"
browse books • Wikipedia

Jack Williamson Library at E.N.M.U.
Jack Williamson entry at Internet Speculative Fiction Database

sci-fi author Roger Zelazny [1937-95] of Santa Fe, NM
browse books • IMDb listing • Wikipedia

Roger Zelazny entry at Internet Speculative Fiction Database


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