The Milagro Man (nonfiction)

The Milagro Man (full title: The Milagro Man: The Absolutely Irrepressible Multicultural Life and Literary Times of John Nichols) is a documentary film about writer John Nichols.

It premiered at the 2012 Albuquerque Film Festival.

• John Nichols (writer) (nonfiction) - author of the "New Mexico trilogy", a series about the complex relationship among history, race and ethnicity, and land and water rights in the fictional town of Chamisaville, New Mexico. The trilogy consists of The Milagro Beanfield War (which was adapted into a movie of the same title directed by Robert Redford), The Magic Journey, and The Nirvana Blues. Two of his other 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.

Fiction cross-reference

• Gnomon algorithm
• Gnomon Chronicles

Nonfiction cross-reference

External links:

• John Nichols (writer) @ Wikipedia
• Trailer @ Youtube
• The Milagro Man @ IMDB