Sandra Dallas is an American author of fiction, young adult fiction novels, children's fiction books, and nonfiction books. Prior to her career as an independent author, she was a reporter and bureau chief for BusinessWeek magazine for the Denver region.^[1][2] She is a 2003 recipient of the Spur Award for Best Western Novel and a 2008 recipient of the Spur Award for Best Western Short Novel.

Biography

Dallas received a degree in journalism from the University of Denver. 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.^[3] She lives in Denver with her husband Bob and has two grown daughters.

Awards & honors

• New York Times best-seller list for Prayers for Sale and True Sisters
• Independent Book Publishers Association's Benjamin Franklin Award for The Quilt that Walked to Golden
• National Cowboy Hall of Fame Western Heritage Wrangler Award for Sacred Paint
• "A quintessential American voice" - Jane Smiley, Vogue
• Spur Award for Best Western Novel, 2003
• Spur Award for Best Western Short Novel, 2008

Works

Novels

• Where Coyotes Howl: (April 2023)
• Little Souls (April 2022)
• Westering Women (January 2020)
• The Patchwork Bride (June 2018)
• The Last Midwife (September 2015)
• A Quilt for Christmas (October 2014)
• Fallen Women (October 2013)
• True Sisters (April 2012)
• The Bride's House (May 2011)
• Whiter Than Snow (March 2010)
• Prayers for Sale (April 2009)
• Tallgrass (February 2008)
• New Mercies (February 2006)
• The Chili Queen (February 2003)
• Alice's Tulips (October 2000)
• The Diary of Mattie Spenser (May 1998)
• Prayers for Sale (April 1997)
• The Persian Pickle Club (October 1995)
• Buster Midnight's Cafe (April 1990)

Children's/Young Adult Novels

• Someplace to Call Home (August 2019)
• Hardscrabble (March 2018)
• Red Berries, White Clouds, Blue Sky (September 2014)
• The Quilt Walk (September 2012)

Non-Fiction

• The Quilt That Walked to Golden (September 2007)
• Colorado's Homes (October 1986)
• Colorado Ghost Towns and Mining Camps (March 1985)
• Sacred Paint: Ned Jacob (January 1979)
• Yesterday's Denver (December 1973)
• Cherry Creek Gothic: Victorian Architecture in Denver (May 1971)
• Gaslights and Gingerbread (January 1965)
• No More Than Five in a Bed: Colorado Hotels in the Old Days (July 1962)