Description
A memoir of the author’s extraordinary life, as seen through the lens of his writing. Everything that went into making him a writer and eventually found an outlet in his work - his education, family, wives, children, friends, enemies, politics, and place - is told from the point of view of his daily practice of writing.
John Nichols has published ten works of nonfiction and thirteen novels, including the classic The Milagro Beanfield War. His recent works include The Annual Big Arsenic Fishing Contest! A Novel, On Top of Spoon Mountain, and My Heart Belongs to Nature: A Memoir in Photographs and Prose (all from UNM Press). Nichols lives in northern New Mexico.