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  • Bibliography:
    6 Books
  • First Book:
    December 1987
  • Latest Book:
    June 2014
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Book List in Order: 6 titles



  • "Mary Austin's The Land of Little Rain (1903) and Lost Borders (1909), both set in the California desert, make intimate connections between animals, people, and the land they inhabit. For Austin, the two indispensable conditions of her fiction we...



  • Set primarily in the lonesome southwest desert lands of the 1920s, this previously unpublished novella is a powerful story in which landscape reflects and defines character. In this beautifully written tale, a promising young politician, Grant Arliss...



  • Mary Austin's 1917 novel illuminates one of the crucial issues in California history―the usurpation of water from the Owens Valley. Ranging from the eastern Sierra to the financial district in San Francisco, the plot portrays the frenzied speculati...



  • One-Smoke Stories is a collection of folk tales from Native American, Spanish Colonial, mestizo, and European American peoples of the Southwest retold in the enthralling words of one of the bestselling writers of her day, Mary Austin. One-Smoke...



  • According to Wikipedia: Mary Hunter Austin (September 9, 1868 - August 13, 1934) was an American writer of fiction and non-fiction. For 17 years she made a special study of Indian life in the Mojave Desert, and her publications set forth the intimat...



  • The greatest difficulty to be met in the writing of an Indian play is the extensive misinformation about Indians. Any real aboriginal of my acquaintance resembles his prototype in the public mind about as much as he does the high-nosed, wooden sign o...




Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Mary Austin has published 6 books.

Mary Austin does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Arrow-Maker, was published in June 2014.

The first book by Mary Austin, Stories from the Country of Lost Borders, was published in December 1987.

No. Mary Austin does not write books in series.