Sandra Dallas is an award

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-winning American

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 author

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 of both novels and non-fiction

Non-fiction

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 books, as well as an ex-reporter for BusinessWeek

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magazine.

Biography

Dallas received a degree in journalism

Journalism

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 from the University of Denver

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. She was a reporter for BusinessWeek for 25 years and was the magazine's first female bureau chief. She began writing in the 1970s during her time as a reporter. She lives in Denver with her husband Bob and has two grown daughters.

Awards & praise

• Independent Book Publishers Association's Benjamin Franklin Award for The Quilt that Walked to Golden
• National Cowboy Hall of Fame Western Heritage Wrangler Award
  National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum
  The National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum is a museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, with more than 28,000 Western and American Indian art works and artifacts. The facility also has the world's most extensive collection of American rodeo, photographs, barbed wire, saddlery, and early rodeo trophies...
  
   for Sacred Paint
• "A quintessential American voice" - Jane Smiley
  Jane Smiley
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  , Vogue
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Novels

• True Sisters (April 2012)
• The Bride's House (May 2011)
• Whiter Than Snow (2010)
• Prayers for Sale (2009)
• New Mercies (2006)
• Tallgrass (2008)
• The Chili Queen (2003)
• Alice's Tulips (2001)
• The Diary of Mattie Spenser (1998)
• The Persian Pickle Club (1996)
• Buster Midnight's Cafe (1990)

Non-Fiction

• The Quilt That Walked to Golden (2007)
• Colorado Ghost Towns and Mining Camps (1988)
• Colorado's Homes (1986)
• Gaslights and Gingerbread (1986)
• Sacred Paint: Ned Jacob (1979)
• Yesterday's Denver (1974)
• Cherry Creek Gothic - Victorian Architecture in Denver (1971)

External links

• Sandra Dallas Homepage