Mary Hunter Austin, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Mary Hunter Austin

Memoirist, novelist, poet, essayist, critic, playwright

Date of Birth: 09-Sep-1868

Place of Birth: Carlinville, Illinois, United States

Date of Death: 13-Aug-1934

Profession: naturalist, writer, poet, novelist, essayist, autobiographer

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Mary Hunter Austin (September 9, 1868 – August 13, 1934) 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 – as well as evoking the mysticism and spirituality – of the region between the High Sierra and the Mojave Desert of southern California.