Jennifer Gavin from the Library of Congress speaks with Anne Hillerman, who will appear at the 2014 National Book Festival on August 30 in Washington, D.C.

Biography

The characters Jim Chee, Joe Leaphorn and Bernadete Manuelito, made famous by Tony Hillerman, get a new story line in “Spider Woman’s Daughter,” by Hillerman’s daughter, Anne Hillerman. “Spider Woman” is Anne Hillerman’s first novel, though not her first book. She is the author of the award-winning “Tony Hillerman’s Landscape: On the Road with Chee and Leaphorn.”