John Nichols

John Nichols is the author of On Top of Spoon Mountain, The Wizard of Loneliness, A Ghost in the Music, If Mountains Die, The Milagro Beanfield War, and other works. He lives in Taos, New Mexico.

John Nichols

John Nichols is the author of On Top of Spoon Mountain, The Wizard of Loneliness, A Ghost in the Music, If Mountains Die, The Milagro Beanfield War, and other works. He lives in Taos, New Mexico.

Books by John Nichols

  • The Sky's the Limit: A Defense of the Earth

    John Nichols

    Paperback, 1991

    Landscape photographs accompany an essay on the beauty of our planet and what can be done to save it from possible destruction.
  • The Wizard of Loneliness

    John Nichols

    Paperback, 1994

    "John Nichols has remarkable insight into life's crazy blend of comedy and tragedy. . . . Pure pleasure to read." —New York Times Book Review
  • If Mountains Die: A New Mexico Memoir

    John Nichols, William Davis

    Paperback, 1997

    A celebration—in words and pictures—of one of the most beautiful areas of the United States: the Taos Valley of northern New Mexico.
  • The Sterile Cuckoo

    John Nichols

    Paperback, 1996

    Riding from Oklahoma to St. Louis next to the astonishing Pookie Adams, eighteen-year-old Jerry Payne little realizes that he is at the beginning of his most memorable love affair.
  • A Ghost in the Music

    John Nichols

    Paperback, 1997

    At forty-eight, Bart Darling is about to perform a movie stunt that will in all likelihood kill him.
  • The Sterile Cuckoo

    John Nichols

    Paperback, 2013

    “A hilarious, sad . . . all too true novel about the rough underside of a college love affair.”—John Knowles, author of A Separate Peace
  • The Microeconomic Foundations of Employment and Inflation Theory

    Edmund S. Phelps, Armen A. Alchian, Charles C. Holt, Dale T. Mortensen, G.C. Archibald, Robert E. Lucas Jr., Leonard A. Rapping, Sidney G. Winter Jr., John P. Gould, Donald F. Gordon, Allan Hynes, Donald A. Nichols, Paul J. Taubman, Maurice Wilkinson

    Paperback, 1973

  • The Semblance of Peace: The Political Settlement After the Second World War

    John W. Wheeler-Bennett, Anthony Nicholls

    Paperback, 1974

    “Sir John Wheeler-Bennett has already made distinguished contributions to the study of the earlier illusion, known as appeasement. With his new collaborator, he has made an equally distinguished...