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 – as well as evoking the mysticism and spirituality – of the region between the High Sierra and the Mojave Desert of southern California. (Information from Wikipedia)
Articles in Western American Literature:
The Turquoise Trail Anthology and the Poets of Santa Fe
The Interconnected Bioregion: Transregional Networks in Mary Austin’s The Ford
A Rain Song for America: Mary Austin, American Indians, and American Literature and Culture
Naturist as Tourist: Mary Austin’s “Automobile Eye View” in The Land of Journeys’ Ending
To bring the world into divine focus: Syncretic Prophecy in The Land of Little Rain
Prophecy in a New West: Mary Austin and the Ghost Dance Religion
Mary Austin’s Disfigurement of the Southwest in The Land of Little Rain
Mary Austin and Houghton Mifflin Company: A Case Study in the Marketing of a Western Writer