At her death in 1934, Mary Hunter Austin was a well-known and accomplished figure in American letters, with contributions to feminism, modernism, regionalism, and Native American studies to her credit. Her oeuvre includes more than thirty book-length...
When she placed her friend Willa Cather at the forefront of a group of American writers who are "so intrinsically western in their point of view that any book by them becomes a western," Mary Hunter Austin could well have been writing about herself....
Although Mary Austin never achieved great popular success, her prolific pen and commanding personality made her an important figure in the literary circles of her era. Her thirty-one books include novels, regional studies of Southern California and New...
Mary Hunter Austin (September 9 1868–August 13 1934) was an American writer of fiction and non-fiction. Mary Hunter was born in Carlinville, Illinois, (the fourth of six children) to George and Susannah (Graham) Hunter. She graduated from...
The origin of mountain streams is like the origin of tears, patent to the understanding but mysterious to the sense," Mary Austin wrote of the snow-fed rivers that cascaded down the sheer gorges of the Eastern Sierra. The haunting beauty of the pristine streams...
These selected writings by Mary Hunter Austin not only reintroduce us to the prose and poetry of one of the most gifted writers of the American West, but also to a feminist and ethnographer who was in advance of her time. In a...
