John Nichols (writer)
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Born | John Treadwell Nichols July 23, 1940 Berkeley, California, United States |
Occupation | Novelist |
Genre | Fiction |
John Treadwell Nichols (born July 23, 1940, Berkeley, California) is an American novelist.
Biography
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.[1] The trilogy consists of The Milagro Beanfield War (which was adapted into a movie of the same title 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.[2] He also had an important but uncredited hand - due to a Writers Guild arbitration decision - in the Oscar-winning Best Adapted Screenplay for Costa-Gavras' 1982 film, Missing.[citation needed]
Nichols has also written non-fiction, including the trilogy If Mountains Die, The Last Beautiful Days of Autumn and On the Mesa. John Nichols has lived in Taos, New Mexico for many years. He is the subject of a documentary The Milagro Man: The Irrepressible Multicultural Life and Literary Times of John Nichols, which premiered at the 2012 Albuquerque Film Festival.[3]
He is the grandson of ichthyologist John Treadwell Nichols and a first cousin of Massachusetts politician William Weld.[4]
Nichols graduated from Hamilton College in 1962.
Bibliography
- Novels
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- New Mexico Trilogy
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- Non-fiction
- Non-fiction trilogy
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See also
References
External links
- Official website
- Inventory of the John Nichols Papers, 1957–2008, University of New Mexico, University Libraries, Center for Southwest Research
- John Nichols, Writing the Southwest, University of New Mexico
- Works by or about John Nichols in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
- Articles with unsourced statements from August 2013
- Official website not in Wikidata
- 1940 births
- Living people
- 20th-century American novelists
- 21st-century American novelists
- American male novelists
- American socialists
- Hamilton College (New York) alumni
- Writers from Berkeley, California
- Writers from Taos, New Mexico