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John Nichols

Born

in Berkeley, California, The United States

July 23, 1940

Died

November 27, 2023

Website

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Genre

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John Nichols is the author of the New Mexico trilogy, a series about the complex relationship between history, race and ethnicity, and land and water rights in the fictional Chamisaville County, New Mexico. The trilogy consists of The Milagro Beanfield War (which was adapted into the film The Milagro Beanfield War directed by Robert Redford), The Magic Journey, and The Nirvana Blues.

Two of his other novels have been made into films. The Wizard of Loneliness was published in 1966 and the film version with Lukas Haas was made in 1988. Another successful movie adaptation was of The Sterile Cuckoo, which was published in 1965 and was filmed by Alan J. Pakula in 1969.

Nichols has also written non-fiction, including the trilogy If Mountains Die, T ...more

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Average rating: 4.01 · 13,698 ratings · 904 reviews · 32 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Milagro Beanfield War 4.10 avg rating — 10,662 ratings — published 1974 — 43 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Magic Journey 3.95 avg rating — 581 ratings — published 1978 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Sterile Cuckoo 3.58 avg rating — 568 ratings — published 1965 — 37 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Nirvana Blues 3.54 avg rating — 482 ratings — published 1981 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Wizard of Loneliness 3.79 avg rating — 142 ratings — published 1960 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Empanada Brotherhood 3.57 avg rating — 141 ratings — published 2007 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The New Mexico Trilogy: The Milagro Beanfield War / The Magic Journey / The Nirvana Blues 4.36 avg rating — 102 ratings — published 1987	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Voice of the Butterfly 3.30 avg rating — 111 ratings — published 2001 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	On the Mesa 3.95 avg rating — 85 ratings — published 1986 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	On Top of Spoon Mountain 3.27 avg rating — 97 ratings — published 2012 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Each person leaves a legacy--a single, small piece of herself, which makes richer each individual life and the collective life of humanity as a whole. But do not despair, for despair is a despicable and bourgeois affectation; we must not allow it. As for what happens next, well, as the Cuban poet Regino Pedroso once said, "como forjamos el hierro, forjaremos días nuevos": as we hammer out iron, we shall hammer out new days.”
― John Nichols, The Nirvana Blues

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“We are touched by magic wands. For just a fraction of our day life is perfect, and we are absolutely happy and in harmony with the earth. The feeling passes much too quickly. But the memory – and the anticipation of other miracles – sustains us in the battle indefinitely.”
― John Nichols, A Fragile Beauty: John Nichols' Milagro Country

tags: beauty, earth, harmony, magic, miracles, nature, perfection, sustenance

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“If the radical right had its way we’d all be church-going polyester heterosexuals driving around in white Cadillacs eating meatloaf and wax beans while mammoth bulldozers leveled all our forests and even hummingbirds were extinct.”
― John Nichols, The Voice of the Butterfly

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2024: What Frontier, Western, Adventure Classic (FWC) would you like to read next year? We read one a quarter. The top 4 will be chosen.

All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy

41 votes 28.9%

Smoke Bellew by Jack London

24 votes 16.9%

No Life for a Lady by Agnes Morley Cleaveland

20 votes 14.1%

Streets of Laredo by Larry McMurtry

17 votes 12.0%

The Unforgiven by Alan LeMay

12 votes 8.5%

Laughing Boy: A Navajo Love Story by Oliver La Farge

11 votes 7.7%

The Milagro Beanfield War by John Nichols

9 votes 6.3%

The Blessing Way by Tony Hillerman

8 votes 5.6%

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