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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 .
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- Mary Hunter, September 9, 1868, Carlinville, Illinois, US
Feb 14, 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.
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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.
Jan 22, 2019 · Mary Austin wrote about the Mojave as brilliantly as John Muir wrote about the Sierra. Why was she forgotten?
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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. Name variations: refers to herself as both I-Mary and Mary-by-Herself; (pseudonym) Gordon Stairs.
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. Early Traumas and Inspiration.
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.
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