Mary Hunter Austin

Mary Hunter Austin
Austin c. 1900
Born	Mary Hunter (1868-09-09)September 9, 1868 Carlinville, Illinois, US
Died	August 13, 1934(1934-08-13) (aged 65) Santa Fe, New Mexico, US
Alma mater	Blackburn College
Occupation	Writer
Spouse	Stafford Wallace Austin

This page is about the American writer, see Mary Austin for others with similar names.

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 of the region between the High Sierra and the Mojave Desert of southern California.