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July 23, 1940 in Berkeley, California, The United States

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John Treadwell Nichols is the author of the New Mexico trilogy, a series about the complex relationship between history, race and ethnicity, and land and water rights in the fictional Chamisaville County, New Mexico. The trilogy consists of The Milagro Beanfield War (which was adapted into the film The Milagro Beanfield War directed by Robert Redford), The Magic Journey, and The Nirvana Blues.

Two of his other novels have been made into films. The Wizard of Loneliness was published in 1966 and the film version with Lukas Haas was made in 1988. Another successful movie adaptation was of The Sterile Cuckoo, which was published in 1965 and was filmed by Alan J. Pakula in 1969.

Nichols has also written non-fiction, including the trilogy If Mounta...more

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Average rating: 3.91 · 3,210 ratings · 287 reviews · 26 distinct works

	The Milagro Beanfield War 4.03 avg rating — 2,250 ratings — published 1974 — 20 editions	My rating:
	The Magic Journey: A Novel 3.89 avg rating — 201 ratings — published 1978 — 8 editions	My rating:
	The Nirvana Blues: A Novel 3.44 avg rating — 187 ratings — published 1981 — 5 editions	My rating:
	The Sterile Cuckoo 3.59 avg rating — 185 ratings — 7 editions	My rating:
	The Voice of the Butterfly: A Novel 3.44 avg rating — 54 ratings — published 2001 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Wizard of Loneliness 3.67 avg rating — 52 ratings — published 1966 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Empanada Brotherhood 3.25 avg rating — 51 ratings — published 2007 — 4 editions	My rating:
	New Mexico Trilogy: The Milagro Beanfield War the Magic Journey the Nirvana Blues 4.14 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 1987	My rating:
	American Blood 3.39 avg rating — 41 ratings — 4 editions	My rating:
	On the Mesa 4.12 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 1986 — 3 editions	My rating:

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“Each person leaves a legacy--a single, small piece of herself, which makes richer each individual life and the collective life of humanity as a whole. But do not despair, for despair is a despicable and bourgeois affectation; we must not allow it. As for what happens next, well, as the Cuban poet Regino Pedroso once said, "como forjamos el hierro, forjaremos días nuevos": as we hammer out iron, we shall hammer out new days.”
― John Treadwell Nichols, The Nirvana Blues: A Novel

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“Listen cousin, the way things are supposed to work out, one day the struggles of all you screwed up little underdogs will forge a permanent rainbow that'll encircle this entire earth, I should live so long.”
― John Treadwell Nichols, The Milagro Beanfield War

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“In the heart of the slaughterhouse -- always -- enough room to nourish the awe.”
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