John Nichols
At the time of his death in 2023, John Nichols had published eleven works of nonfiction and thirteen novels, including the classic The Milagro Beanfield War. A resident of Taos since the 1960s, 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).
Dancing on the Stones
This new collection of essays gives you the opportunity to know him even more intimately.
- Copyright year: 2000
Conjugal Bliss
A Comedy of Martial Arts
"A hilarious, raucous, painfully graphic portrait of The Marriage from Hell."--Chicago Tribune
- Copyright year: 1994
On Top of Spoon Mountain
- Copyright year: 2012
An Elegy for September
A Novel
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
American Blood
A Novel
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
My Heart Belongs to Nature
A Memoir in Photographs and Prose
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
Man vs Fish
The Fly Fisherman's Eternal Struggle
"These stories catch fish. And all of them are hefty lunkers."--John Nichols, from the Foreword
- Copyright year: 2007
The Annual Big Arsenic Fishing Contest!
A Novel
In this insightful and bittersweet love story, masterful storyteller John Nichols brings to life northern New Mexico and three unforgettable characters.
- Copyright year: 2016
I Got Mine
Confessions of a Midlist Writer
- Copyright year: 2022