Seldom Disappointed

Seldom Disappointed

"Seldom Disappointed: A Memoir" is the 2001 autobiography of author Tony Hillerman. The title reflects the attitude that he learned as a child living on a farm in Oklahoma; if one learns not to have unrealistic explanations, one will often be pleasantly surprised and seldom disappointed.

:"For everyone else, to miss what the New York Times Book Review called a "splendid and disarming remembrance of things past," would be a downright shame" (Quoted in Sooner Magazine, Fall 2002)

Awards

*Agatha Award, best non-fiction in 2001


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