Crazy Weather - Paperback

by Charles L. McNichols (Author), Ursula K. Le Guin (Introduction by)

A young white child is deeply affected by four days of "glory-hunting" with an Indian friend in the Mojave Desert, in this unique tale of American identity that serves as an important document in our cultural history.

Author Biography

Charles L. McNichols was a naval aviator in World War I who later worked in the movies and wrote for magazines. He will always be remembered for Crazy Weather, originally published in 1944 and his only book-length work of fiction.

Ursula K. Le Guin was born in 1929 in Berkeley, and lives in Portland, Oregon. As of 2013, she has published twenty-one novels, eleven volumes of short stories, four collections of essays, twelve books for children, six volumes of poetry and four of translation, and has received many honors and awards including Hugo, Nebula, the National Book Award, and the PEN-Malamud.