In his 1971 introduction to the re-printing of the 1934 book, New York University English Professor Walter James Miller observed, “Fig Tree John is not only one of our greatest novels about the ...
Editor’s Note: This column is the second of two parts. The enigmatic Fig Tree John was a Coachella Valley legend in his own time. Although considered kind and likeable by many, he also developed a ...
The American desert seems to attract a lot of interesting characters whose lives are surrounded by so many outrageous stories that it’s hard to differentiate between which is fact or fiction. And back ...