Occupation Novelist Education Hamilton College Role Novelist | Name John Nichols Genre Fiction | |
Born John Treadwell Nichols
July 23, 1940 (age 83)
Berkeley, California, United States ( 1940-07-23 ) Movies The Milagro Beanfield War, The Sterile Cuckoo, Missing Parents Monique Robert, David G. Nichols Awards New Mexico Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts Books Milagro Beanfield War, The magic journey, The Sterile Cuckoo, The nirvana blues, If mountains die Similar People Richard Bradford, Costa‑Gavras, David S Ward, Alan J Pakula, Thomas Hauser | ||
Write a book throw it away john nichols a writer s life 1
John Treadwell Nichols (born July 23, 1940, Berkeley, California) is an American novelist.
Contents
- Write a book throw it away john nichols a writer s life 1
- A visit with john nichols
- Biography
- References
A visit with john nichols
Biography
Nichols is the author of the "New Mexico trilogy", a series about the complex relationship among history, race and ethnicity, and land and water rights in the fictional town of Chamisaville, New Mexico. 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 movie adaptation was of The Sterile Cuckoo, published in 1965 and then adapted for a film by Alan J. Pakula in 1969. He also had a hand, uncredited due to a decision in an arbitration with the Writers Guild, in the Oscar-winning Best Adapted Screenplay for Costa-Gavras' 1982 film Missing.
Nichols also has written non-fiction, including the trilogy If Mountains Die, The Last Beautiful Days of Autumn and On the Mesa. 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.
Nichols also is a photographer. Many of his photographs appear in his book On the Mesa, among others. He also participated as an instructor in fine art photographic workshops, most notably with the Los Angeles photographer Ray McSavaney.
He is the grandson of ichthyologist John Treadwell Nichols and a first cousin of Massachusetts politician William Weld.
Nichols graduated from Hamilton College in 1962.