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Mary Austin and the American West by Susan Goodman and Carl Dawson (2009, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherUniversity of California Press

ISBN-100520246357

ISBN-139780520246355

eBay Product ID (ePID)66183379

Product Key Features

Number of Pages344 Pages

Publication NameMary Austin and the American West

LanguageEnglish

SubjectUnited States / State & Local / West (Ak, CA, Co, Hi, Id, Mt, Nv, Ut, WY)

Publication Year2009

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaHistory

AuthorSusan Goodman, Carl Dawson

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.2 in

Item Weight25.6 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2008-027797

Dewey Edition22

ReviewsGoodman and Dawson's judicious biography makes a worthy contribution to our understanding of the literary West., This rich, engaging biography explores the complexity of Austin's life in all the detail it so richly deserves., "Goodman and Dawson's judicious biography makes a worthy contribution to our understanding of the literary West."-- Los Angeles Times Book Review, "This rich, engaging biography explores the complexity of Austin's life in all the detail it so richly deserves."-- New Mexico Magazine, _This rich, engaging biography explores the complexity of Austin_s life in all the detail it so richly deserves._, "A much needed reconsideration of the vagabond life and influential achievements of Mary Austin."-- Booklist, _Goodman and Dawson's judicious biography makes a worthy contribution to our understanding of the literary West._

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal818/.5209 B

Table Of Contentpreface / i x chronology of mary austin's life and work / x i i i 1 / Desert Places: 1868-1892 / 1 2 / Owens Valley: 1892-1900 / 1 4 3 / Independence: 1900-1905 / 4 8 4 / Carmel: 1904-1907 / 6 9 5 / In Italy and England: 1907-1910 / 9 3 6 / New York: 1911-1914 / 1 1 9 7 / The Village: 1914-1920 / 1 4 5 8 / The Call of the West: 1920-1924 / 1 7 2 9 / Santa Fe: 1924-1929 / 1 9 8 10 / Indian Detours and Spanish Arts / 2 1 8 11 / Last Years: 1929-1934 / 2 3 9 12 / The Accounting / 2 6 4 notes / 2 7 3 index / 0 0 0

SynopsisMary 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, The Land of Little Rain, 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. In 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, Mary Austin and the American West tells the larger story of the emerging importance of California and the Southwest to the American consciousness., Mary 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, The Land of Little Rain, 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. In 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, Mary Austin and the American West tells the larger story of the emerging importance of California and the Southwest to the American consciousness.

LC Classification NumberPS3501.U8Z596 2009