{"product_id":"mary-austin-and-the-american-west-hardcover","title":"Mary Austin and the American West - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSusan Goodman\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eCarl Dawson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMary Austin (1868-1934)--eccentric, independent, and unstoppable--was twenty years old when her mother moved the family west. Austin's first look at her new home, glimpsed from California's Tejon Pass, reset the course of her life, \"changed her horizons and marked the beginning of her understanding, not only about who she was, but where she needed to be.\" At a time when Frederick Jackson Turner had announced the closing of the frontier, Mary Austin became the voice of the American West. In 1903, she published her first book, \u003ci\u003eThe Land of Little Rain, \u003c\/i\u003e a wholly original look at the West's desert and its ethnically diverse peoples. Defined in a sense by the places she lived, Austin also defined the places themselves, whether Bishop, in the Sierra Nevada, Carmel, with its itinerant community of western writers, or Santa Fe, where she lived the last ten years of her life. By the time of her death in 1934, Austin had published over thirty books and counted as friends the leading literary and artistic lights of her day. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this rich new biography, Susan Goodman and Carl Dawson explore Austin's life and achievement with unprecedented resonance, depth, and understanding. By focusing on one extraordinary woman's life, \u003ci\u003eMary Austin and the American West\u003c\/i\u003e tells the larger story of the emerging importance of California and the Southwest to the American consciousness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eFinally, a book that does Mary Austin justice in all her complexity and takes her seriously as a challenging and varied writer.--Melody Graulich, coeditor of \u003ci\u003eExploring Lost Borders \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA wonderful wide-angle view of an era in the American West and its literary, artistic, and anthropological figures.--Robert D. Richardson Jr., author of \u003ci\u003eHenry Thoreau: A Life of the Mind \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eFinally, a book that does Mary Austin justice in all her complexity and takes her seriously as a challenging and varied writer.--Melody Graulich, coeditor of \u003ci\u003eExploring Lost Borders \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A wonderful wide-angle view of an era in the American West and its literary, artistic, and anthropological figures.\"--Robert D. Richardson Jr., author of \u003ci\u003eHenry Thoreau: A Life of the Mind \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSusan Goodman \u003c\/b\u003eis the H. Fletcher Brown Chair of Humanities Professor of English at the University of Delaware. \u003cb\u003eCarl Dawson \u003c\/b\u003eis Professor of English at the University of Delaware. Goodman and Dawson are the coauthors of \u003ci\u003eWilliam Dean Howells: A Writer's Life \u003c\/i\u003e(UC Press).\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 344\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.24 x 9.1 x 6.28 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 07, 2009\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44179958169735,"sku":"9780520246355","price":66.51,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/ovng2h7WL29780520246355.webp?v=1773316216","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/mary-austin-and-the-american-west-hardcover","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}