John Treadwell Nichols

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  • Bibliography:
    9 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    The Milagro Beanfield War (September 1974)
  • Latest Book:
    The Annual Big Arsenic Fishing Contest! (September 2016)
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John Treadwell Nichols (July 23, 1940 – November 27, 2023) - Age 83

Resident of Taos, New Mexico.

Full Series List in Order

The New Mexico Trilogy

1 - The Milagro Beanfield War (Sep-1974)
2 - The Magic Journey (Jun-1979)
3 - Nirvana Blues (Jun-1981)

Books in Order: 9 titles

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  • The Annual Big Arsenic Fishing Contest!

    On the surface this book spins a fisherman’s tall tale about a ribald angling contest between three middle-aged friends who love (and perhaps hate) each other: a preppy trilingual Machiavelli, an intellectual ghetto pool shark, and a brawny Texan w...

  • A Ghost in the Music

    At forty-eight, Bart Darling is about to perform a movie stunt that will in all likelihood kill him. Lorraine, his hillbilly girlfriend who is carrying his child, gives him an ultimatum: call it off or she'll split. Bart summons his emotionally dista...

  • Conjugal Bliss

    What happens when two oft-divorced and middle-aged sex fiends tie the knot again? Birds do it, bees do it, and Roger and Zelda do it whenever their teenage kids aren’t looking. Their ecstasy is boundless. But when the darker side of Paradise rears ...

  • An Elegy for September

    He is fifty, a man of middle years with a weak heart and two failed marriages. Mourning the loss of the boundless energy he squandered as a young man, he is a creature of habit now, relying on daily patterns to pace himself, to conserve what is left....

  • American Blood

    Michael Smith survives the Vietnam war only to find himself angry and adrift in a United States at war with itself. Though he cannot forget the pornographic atrocities he witnessed abroad, it is the pervasive brutality of civilian life that threatens...

  • Nirvana Blues

    The New Mexico Trilogy - 3

    This final volume in John Nichols's acclaimed New Mexico trilogy, (“Gentle, funny, transcendent.” -- New York Times Book Review).Like its predecessors, The Nirvana Blues is a lusty, visionary novel that blends comedy and tragedy, reality and fan...

  • The Magic Journey

    The New Mexico Trilogy - 2

    Spanning forty years, the second book in John Nichols's New Mexico trilogy, The Magic Journey, tells the tale of how relentless progress transformed a rural backwater into a boomtown.Boom times came to the forgotten little southwestern town of Chamis...

  • The Sterile Cuckoo

    "A hilarious, sad . . . all too true novel about the rough underside of a college love affair." -- John Knowles, author of A Separate Peace When eighteen-year-old Jerry Payne first meets Pookie Adams at the Friarsburg, Oklahoma, bus depot, he is hard...

  • The Milagro Beanfield War

    The New Mexico Trilogy - 1

    The Milagro Beanfield War is the first book in John Nichols's New Mexico trilogy (“Gentle, funny, transcendent.” -- The New York Times Book Review), later adapted to film by Robert Redford. Joe Mondragon, a feisty hustler with a talent for t...



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John Treadwell Nichols has published 9 books.

John Treadwell Nichols does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Annual Big Arsenic Fishing Contest!, was published in September 2016.

The first book by John Treadwell Nichols, The Milagro Beanfield War, was published in September 1974.

Yes. John Treadwell Nichols has 1 series.
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