For students and faculty in the SMU-in-Taos program, this list of books and articles in the Fort Library provides a starting point for research on authors who live (or lived) in New Mexico or used it as a setting. Use PONI to determine the call numbers for works by (author search) or about (subject search) an author.

See also the guides in this series on      Literature: Hispanic Writers         Literature: Native American Writers.

Categories within this         Authors     |   Reference   |   Bibliographies  |   Collections  |    Literary Criticism
Library Guide:                       Fiction set in NM (inc. mysteries)    |    Personal Accounts based in NM    |  Journal Articles

Authors
    The Fort Library has works by these, and other, authors associated with the Southwest.  Search PONI.

Abbey, Edward (1927-1989)
Allen, Paula Gunn (1939- )
Anaya, Rudolfo (1937- )
Austin, Mary (1868-1934)
Bynner, Witter (1881-1968)
Castillo, Ana (1953- )
Cather, Willa (1873-1947)
Church, Peggy Pond (1903-1986)
Crawford, Stanley (1937- )
DeBuys, William (1949- )
Evans, Max (1924 [5?]- )
Fergusson, Erna (1888-1964)
Fergusson, Harvey (1890-1971)
Gallegos, Sallie (1961- )
Garcia, Nasario (1936- )
Hillerman, Tony (1925- )
Horgan, Paul (1903-1995)
Johnson, Walter Willard (Spud) (1897-1968)
Lawrence, D. H. (1865-1930)
Luhan, Mabel Dodge (1879-1962)
McMurtry, Larry (1936- )
Momaday, N. Scott (1934- )
Nichols, John T. (1940- )
Pillsbury, Dorothy L. (d.?)
Silko, Leslie (1948- )
Ulibarri, Sabine R. (1919- )
Wallace, Stegner (1909-1993)
Waters. Frank (1902-1995)
Westbrook, Robert

(NOTE: Birth-Death dates, if available, from Biography and Genealogy Master Index online[SMU user access only])

Reference

Encyclopedia of Frontier Literature (1997)
See also:  index to Western American Literature, shelved with journal in Fort Library Periodical Section

Bibliographies, Overview

A Bibliographical Guide to the Study of Western American Literature (1995)
Early Novel of the Southwest (1961)
Storied New Mexico: An Annotated Bibliography of Novels with New
    Mexico Settings (1991)
Santa Fe and Taos: The Writers' Era, 1916-1941.

Collections

Best of the West
Literature and Landscape: Writers of the Southwest  (1988)
New Mexico Folklore of the Rio Abajo
New Mexico Plays
Signature of the Sun: Southwest Verse, 1900-1950
Southwest Stories: Tales from the Desert
Southwesterners Write: The American Southwest in Stories and Articles...
[The] Spirit That Wants Me: A New Mexico Anthology
Tierra: Short Fiction
Tierra Amarilla: Stories of New Mexico

Literary Criticism

Paso por Aqui: Critical Essays on the New Mexican Literary Tradition,
    1542-1988.
This is about Vision
Writing the Southwest
Chicana Creativity and Criticism

Fiction with New Mexico or Southwest settings (selected titles)

Albuquerque (Anaya)
Banana Rose (Goldberg)
Bluefeather Fellini (Evans)
Bluefeather Fellini in the Sacred Realm (Evans)
Death Comes to the Archbishop (Cather)
Man Who Killed the Deer (Waters)
Milagro Bean Field War(Nichols)
People of the Valley (Waters)
Rio Grande Fall (Anaya)
So Far from God (Castillo)
Warrior Circle (Westbrook)
Zia Summer(Anaya)

Mysteries set in New Mexico

    Author                                            Setting/Protagonist
Hillerman, Tony                   Four Corners/tribal police in the Navajo Nation
Page, Jake                              Santa Fe / Canyon Road artist
Thurlo, Aimee & David      Navajo Nation / police investigator
Van Gieson, Judith              Albuquerque / attorney (Neil Hamel series)
                                               Albuquerque / UNM rare book librarian (Claire Reynier series)
Westbrook, Robert              Taos /  private investigators
 

Personal accounts of contemporary life in towns of Northern New Mexico

DeBuys, William (1949- )
    Enchantment and Exploitation: the Life and Hard Times of a New Mexico
        Mountain Range (1985)
    River of Traps: A Village Life (1990)

Crawford, Stanley G. (1937- )
    [A] Garlic Testament: Seasons on a Small New Mexico Farm (1992)
    Mayordomo: Chronicle of an Acequia in Northern New Mexico (1988)

Nichols, John  (1940-    )
     Dancing on the Stones: Selected Essays (2000) on order
    "Hiking Devisadero," (Nichols, John), New Mexico Magazine, 77:3 (March 1999)

Sagel, Jim (1947-1998)
    Dancing to Pay the Light Bill:Essays on New Mexico and the Southwest (1991)

Journal Articles

See also,  index to Western American Literature, shelved with journal.

"Peggy Pond Church: An 'Octogeranium' Speaks," New Mexico Magazine,
    63:2 (February 1985)

"Words of Wisdom," (Chavez, Denise), New Mexico Magazine, 65:12
    (December 1987) [writers seek to define distinctive Southwest identity]