John Nichols

About The Author

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).

Books by John Nichols

I Got Mine

Confessions of a Midlist Writer

By John Nichols
I Got Mine: Confessions of a Midlist Writer is the memoir of Nichols’ 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...
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