Mary Hunter Austin, American author, poet, and critic (died 1934)

Mary Hunter Austin was an American writer. One of the early nature writers of the American Southwest, her classic The Land of Little Rain (1903) describes the fauna, flora, and people of the region between the High Sierra and the Mojave Desert of southern California.

September 9 is the 252nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 113 days remain until the end of the year.