John Nichols

John Nichols's first novel was The Sterile Cuckoo and his most recent is The Empanada Brotherhood. In between he wrote The Milagro Beanfield War, a southwestern classic, and sixteen other books. Nichols lives in Taos, New Mexico.

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Dancing on the Stones

University of New Mexico Press

This new collection of essays gives you the opportunity to know him even more intimately.

  • Copyright year: 2000
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Man vs Fish

The Fly Fisherman's Eternal Struggle

By Taylor Streit; Foreword by John Nichols
University of New Mexico Press

"These stories catch fish. And all of them are hefty lunkers."--John Nichols, from the Foreword

  • Copyright year: 2007
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On Top of Spoon Mountain

University of New Mexico Press
  • Copyright year: 2012
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American Blood

A Novel

University of New Mexico Press

Though Michael Smith cannot forget the pornographic atrocities he witnessed abroad during the Vietnam war, it is the pervasive brutality of civilian life that threatens to destroy him. American Blood is a timely and fiercely moral statement on violence and loss.

  • Copyright year: 1987
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An Elegy for September

A Novel

University of New Mexico Press

A brief, poignant, and eloquent novel that renders an age-old story in a fresh and powerful form, An Elegy for September captures the turning point in the life of a man as he confronts his own mortality.

  • Copyright year: 1992
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Conjugal Bliss

A Comedy of Martial Arts

University of New Mexico Press

"A hilarious, raucous, painfully graphic portrait of The Marriage from Hell."--Chicago Tribune

  • Copyright year: 1994
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The Annual Big Arsenic Fishing Contest!

A Novel

University of New Mexico Press

In this insightful and bittersweet love story, masterful storyteller John Nichols brings to life northern New Mexico and three unforgettable characters.

  • Copyright year: 2016
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My Heart Belongs to Nature

A Memoir in Photographs and Prose

University of New Mexico Press

In My Heart Belongs to Nature, Nichols records his forty-five-year connection to the Taos valley and its mountains, where he still lives.

  • Copyright year: 2017
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I Got Mine

Confessions of a Midlist Writer

University of New Mexico Press, High Road Books

I Got Mine: Confessions of a Midlist Writer is the memoir of Nichols's extraordinary life, as seen through the lens of his writing.

  • Copyright year: 2022
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