Born: 9 September 1868, United States
Died: 13 August 1934
Country most active: United States
Also known as: I-Mary and Mary-by-Herself, Gordon Stairs
From Famous Women: An Outline of Feminine Achievement Through the Ages With Life Stories of Five Hundred Noted Women. Written by Joseph Adelman, published 1926 by Ellis M Lonow Company:
Mary Hunter Austin, an American author and dramatist. For seventeen years she made a special study of Indian life in the Mojave Desert, and her publications set forth the intimate knowledge she thus acquired. She is the author of The Land of Little Rain, The Basket Woman, and other stories. Her play, The Arrowmaker, dealing with Indian life, was produced at The New Theatre, New York, in 1911.