Mary Hunter Austin
:''This page is about the American writer, see Mary Austin for others with similar names.''Mary Hunter Austin (September 9, 1868 – August 13, 1934) was an American writer. One of the early nature writers of the American Southwest, her classic ''The Land of Little Rain'' (1903) describes the fauna, flora, and people of the region between the High Sierra and the Mojave Desert of southern California. Provided by Wikipedia