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Mary Hunter Austin (September 9, 1868 – August 13, 1934) was an American writer. One of the early nature writers of the American Southwest, her classic The Land of Little Rain (1903) describes the fauna, flora, and people of the region between the High Sierra and the Mojave Desert of southern California.
Sep 5, 2024 · Mary Austin (born Sept. 9, 1868, Carlinville, Ill., U.S.—died Aug. 13, 1934, Santa Fe, N.M.) was a novelist and essayist who wrote about Native American culture and social problems. Mary Hunter graduated from Blackburn College in 1888 and soon afterward moved with her family to Bakersfield, California.
Jun 25, 2019 · Mary Hunter Austin (September 9, 1868 – August 13, 1934) was an American novelist and essayist who focused her writing on cultural and social problems within the Native American community.
Austin, Mary Hunter (1868–1934) American author, primarily of naturalist fiction about the Southwest, who celebrated the environment, preserved Native American and Spanish Colonial culture, and mingled with the cultural icons of her times.
Mary Hunter Austin (1868-1934) was an explorer, observer, wanderer, and writer. Born in Illinois, Austin moved with her family to Central California when she was 20 years old. The family made the move to take advantage of the 1862 Homestead Act.
American author Mary Hunter Austin (1868-1934) primarily wrote fiction and essays, with many of her works focusing on Native American culture. The novel The Land of Little Rain (1903) was her best known work.
Jan 22, 2019 · Mary Austin wrote about the Mojave as brilliantly as John Muir wrote about the Sierra. Why was she forgotten?
Nov 27, 2013 · Mary Hunter Austin (b. 1868–d. 1934) was born in Carlinville, Illinois, and graduated from Blackburn College in 1888. Later that year, she made the move that would most influence her writing when she went with her widowed mother and two brothers to southern California to homestead.
AUSTIN, Mary Hunter. Born 9 September 1868, Carlinville, Illinois; died 13 August 1934, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Daughter of George and Savilla Graham Hunter; married Stafford Austin, 1891. Mary Hunter Austin was born into a family that had little understanding of her unusual talents.
Mary Hunter Austin was a prolific novelist, poet, critic, and playwright, as well as an early feminist, conservationist, and defender of Native American and Spanish-American rights and culture. After graduating from Blackburn College in 1888, she moved with her family to California and established a homestead in the San Joaquin Valley.
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