The Antioch Review, September 22nd, 1996
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 literary career that spanned the first four decades of this century, Austin wrote some 30 book length works and more than 200 novels, dramas, short stories, poems, articles, and essays. In her novel Starry Adventure (1931), she took aim against the Anglo elite and their encroachment on the indigenous Hispanic and Indian groups in New Mexico, where she spent the last dec...
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