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Life and works
'''Mary Austin''' (1868-1934) was an American author. Her works include ''Isidro'' (1905), ''A Woman of Genius'' (1912), ''The Ford'' (1917), and ''Earth Horizon'' (1932).<ref>''The New York Public Library Student's Desk Reference''. Prentice Hall, New York, 1993.</ref>
'''Mary Hunter Austin''', born '''Mary Hunter''', (1868-1934) was an American author. Her works include ''Isidro'' (1905), ''A Woman of Genius'' (1912), ''The Ford'' (1917), and ''Earth Horizon'' (1932).<ref>''The New York Public Library Student's Desk Reference''. Prentice Hall, New York, 1993.</ref>
==Life and Works==
Mary Austin was born Mary Hunter on September 9, 1868, to an unemotional mother and a father who has contracted malaria and died when she was ten.<ref>http://www.onlinenevada.org/articles/mary-hunter-austin</ref> Her sister Jennie died as well, and the trauma led her to produce her own private religion, counseling with something inside her, which led her to become a writer.<ref>http://biography.yourdictionary.com/mary-hunter-austin</ref> She moved to rural California for her writing, and became a naturalist, essayist, and feminist.<ref>http://www.counterpointpress.com/authors/mary-hunter-austin/</ref> She married a man there, and they built a homestead together, but she moved to Carmel in a water dispute and joined a literary circle.<ref>http://newmexicohistory.org/people/mary-hunter-austin</ref>
Her first book, ''Land of Little Rain'' (1903), was a collection of essays about the ways of life of the Southwest; her second book, ''The Flock'' (1906), describes the history of raising sheep.<ref>http://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/news-wires-white-papers-and-books/austin-mary-hunter</ref> She considered the Southwest to be the most desolate place the Lord ever created, and found many broken relationships there.<ref>https://www.npca.org/articles/942-the-loneliest-land</ref> After leaving her husband, she turned from nature poetry, moved to New York, traveled to Europe, and met liberal intellectuals such as [[H.G. Wells]], which encouraged her to write more feminist works such as ''A Woman of Genius'' (1912) and added a support for socialism to her causes.<ref>"Austin, Mary." ''Encyclopedia Britannica Online''.</ref>
She died on August 13, 1934, and had a mountain named in her honor.<ref>https://www.poemhunter.com/mary-austin/biography/</ref>
==See Also==
*[[John Muir]]
*[[Jack London]]
*[[Ambrose Bierce]]
*[[Ansel Adams]]
==References==
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==External Links==
*[https://www.poemhunter.com/mary-austin/poems/ Poems] on the Poem Hunter website
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