Sandra Dallas

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. 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. 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

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)