Mary Hunter Austin
Memoirist, novelist, poet, essayist, critic, playwright
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- 1868–1934
Updated September 2026
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About Mary Hunter Austin
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 of the region between the High Sierra and the Mojave Desert of southern California.
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