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- Birth nameJohn Treadwell Nichols
- John Nichols was born on July 23, 1940 in Berkeley, California, USA. He was a writer, known for The Sterile Cuckoo (1969), The Milagro Beanfield War (1988) and The Wizard of Loneliness (1988). He was married to Ruth Wetherell Harding. He died on November 28, 2023 in Taos, New Mexico, USA.
- SpouseRuth Wetherell Harding(1965 - ?) (divorced, 2 children)
- Best known novels are "The Sterile Cuckoo" (1965), "Nirvana Blues" and "The Milagro Beanfield War".
- Received a B.A. from Hamilton College in 1962.
- Two of his 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.
- Nichols also has written non-fiction, including the trilogy If Mountains Die, The Last Beautiful Days of Autumn and On the Mesa.
- His latest (2022) book was a memoir "I Got Mine: Confessions of a Midlist Writer".
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