People Who Live Here
George R. R. Martin, the wildly successful author of the Game of Thrones series, lives in Santa Fe, and from what I can tell, he still lives in a very modest house off Alameda Street, despite making mega millions and being the most read fantasy author since Tolkien.
He opened the popular Meow Wolf artist's collective in town (it's a strange funhouse / scavenger hunt / art installation / weird place) and he's opening two more in Denver and Las Vegas. I'd like to see him around. He's a character.
Caroline Fraser, Pulitzer Prize winner in 2018 for her biography of Laura Ingalls Wilder, Prairie Fires, lives in Santa Fe with her husband Hal Espen, who is the editor of Outside magazine.
Like many girls in the 1950s I adored the Laura Ingalls Wilder books and re-read them many times. I knew something about her real life from other biographies, but Prairie Fires is in a whole other league, exposing her complex family history and the national backdrop of what was going on in Laura's America.
It's really well researched and written. I'd like to run into Caroline Fraser in town and have a talk.
Wes Studi, Native American movie actor, lives on a horse ranch just outside of town. He is full blooded Cherokee, and was raised in Oklahoma, but Santa Fe is now his home. He has played Indian parts for years, representing many different tribes, from the Huron of Last of the Mohicans, to a Pawnee in Dances With Wolves, to Navajo and Hopi and many others.
He's a friendly and accessible fixture in Santa Fe, often seen in town and at nightspots, although one run-in with the cops didn't go well and was much talked about a few years ago (but forgiven now). I'd like to visit his horse ranch, that would be cool.
Santa Fe has high end real estate that wealthy people -- like Jane Fonda, etc. -- use as second or third or fourth homes, but I don't expect to run into any of them in town.
But I thought you'd want to know who you are likely to see when you wander around Santa Fe. In addition to us, I mean.
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| "A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one." - George R.R. Martin |
He opened the popular Meow Wolf artist's collective in town (it's a strange funhouse / scavenger hunt / art installation / weird place) and he's opening two more in Denver and Las Vegas. I'd like to see him around. He's a character.
Caroline Fraser, Pulitzer Prize winner in 2018 for her biography of Laura Ingalls Wilder, Prairie Fires, lives in Santa Fe with her husband Hal Espen, who is the editor of Outside magazine.
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| "There were no people on the prairie" Laura wrote, "only Indians." Caroline Fraser's biography doesn't hold back the criticism of Laura's times and views. |
Like many girls in the 1950s I adored the Laura Ingalls Wilder books and re-read them many times. I knew something about her real life from other biographies, but Prairie Fires is in a whole other league, exposing her complex family history and the national backdrop of what was going on in Laura's America.
It's really well researched and written. I'd like to run into Caroline Fraser in town and have a talk.
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| "I do yearn to be known as an actor, rather than a 'Native American' actor." |
He's a friendly and accessible fixture in Santa Fe, often seen in town and at nightspots, although one run-in with the cops didn't go well and was much talked about a few years ago (but forgiven now). I'd like to visit his horse ranch, that would be cool.
Santa Fe has high end real estate that wealthy people -- like Jane Fonda, etc. -- use as second or third or fourth homes, but I don't expect to run into any of them in town.
But I thought you'd want to know who you are likely to see when you wander around Santa Fe. In addition to us, I mean.
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