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Mary Austin

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born

in Carlinville, Illinois, The United States

September 09, 1868

died

August 13, 1934

gender

female

genre

Outdoors & Nature, Literature & Fiction, Poetry

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Mary Hunter Austin 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 Sierras and the Mojave Desert of southern California.

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Average rating: 3.77 · 520 ratings · 54 reviews · 45 distinct works · Similar authors

	The Land of Little Rain by Mary Austin, Terry Tempest Williams (Introduction) 3.79 of 5 stars 3.79 avg rating — 371 ratings — published 1903 — 43 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cactus Thorn 3.38 of 5 stars 3.38 avg rating — 37 ratings — 2 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Stories from the Country of Lost Borders 3.76 of 5 stars 3.76 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 1987 — 2 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Basket Woman: A Book Of Indian Tales 3.92 of 5 stars 3.92 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1904 — 10 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Earth Horizon 4.09 of 5 stars 4.09 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1932 — 3 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Woman of Genius by Mary Austin, Nancy Porter (Afterword) 4.29 of 5 stars 4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1993 — 3 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Ford 4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1917 — 5 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	One-Smoke Stories by Mary Austin, Noreen Groover Lape (Contributor) 3.14 of 5 stars 3.14 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2003	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lost Borders 4.4 of 5 stars 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — 3 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Land of Journeys' Ending 4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1983 — 4 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“We are not all born at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later... Our mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth; we ourselves suffer the longer pains of our spiritual growth.”
― Mary Austin

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