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+Mary Hunter Austin (Mrs. Stafford W. Austin)+--novelist, dramatist.
Born at Carlinville, Illinois, 1868. At the age of nineteen went to live
in California. B.S., Blackburn University, 1888. Lived on the edge of the
Mohave Desert where she is said to have worked like an Indian woman,
housekeeping and gardening. Studied the desert, its form, its weather,
its lights, its plants. Also studied Indian lore extensively,
contributing the chapter on Aboriginal Literature to the _Cambridge
History of American Literature_ (IV [Later National Literature, III],
610ff.).