John Treadwell Nichols

John Nichols (i.e. yours truly) was born on July 23, 1940. I've published more than twenty books (13 novels, 9 works of non-fiction) and once spent twenty years writing Hollywood screenplays, great work if you can get it. Where did the money go...? Your guess is as good as mine. I published my first novel, The Sterile Cuckoo (1965) when I was 24. My novel, On Top Of Spoon Mountain (2012), hit bookstores shortly after my seventy-second birthday. It's been a quick trip. Alan Pakula directed a film of The Sterile Cuckoo, starring Liza Minelli who earned a 1969 Academy Award Nomination in her role as Pookie Adams. Robert Redford directed my third novel, The Milagro Beanfield War (1974), in a 1988 movie that starred Sonia Braga, Carlos Riquelme, Ruben Blades, Christopher Walken, Julie Carmen, Daniel Stern, Melanie Griffith, Freddy Fender and 800 other actors. I shared a credit on the script. I also rewrote a picture for the Greek director, Costa-Gavras, called Missing (1982) that starred Jack Lemon and Sissy Spacek. Minor factoid: My second novel, The Wizard of Loneliness (1966) was made into a 1988 film starring Lea Thompson, Lukas Haas, Lance Guest, Dylan Baker, and John Randolph. I live in northern New Mexico. I've been married and divorced three times, helped raise two kids, and survived open-heart surgery in 1994. 1 am not to be confused with the other John Nichols, a younger version who writes for The Nation and other venues, and publishes books like It's the Media, Stupid and Dick: The Man Who is President. He's a great writer, and, like myself, politically progressive, but he did not write An Elegy for September, Conjugal Bliss, The Magic Journey, American Blood, The Nirvana Blues, A Ghost in the Music, or The Voice of the Butterfly, I did. You can learn more at http://www.johnnicholsbooks.com/.