John Nichols (American writer)
- John Nichols (American writer)
John Treadwell Nichols (born July 23, 1940 Berkeley, California) 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 became a movie 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 Mountains Die, The Last Beautiful Days of Autumn and On the Mesa. John Nichols has lived in Taos, New Mexico for many years.
Novels
* The Sterile Cuckoo (1965)
* The Wizard of Loneliness (1966)
* Fiction trilogy
** The Milagro Beanfield War (1974)
** The Magic Journey (1978)
** The Nirvana Blues (1981)
* A Ghost in the Music (1987)
* American Blood (1987)
* An Elegy for September (1992)
* (1994)
* The Voice of the Butterfly (2001)
* The Empanada Brotherhood (2007)
Non-fiction
* Non-fiction trilogy
** On the Mesa (1986)
** The Last Beautiful Days of Autumn (2000)
** with William Davis (photographer) (2005)
* text and photographs by Nichols (1987)
* (2001)
External links
* [http://www.unm.edu/~wrtgsw/nichols.html A page from the University of New Mexico]
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