Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness is an autobiographical work by American writer Edward Abbey, originally published in 1968. His fourth book and his first book-length non-fiction work, it follows three fictional books: "Jonathan Troy" (1954), "The Brave Cowboy" (1956), and "Fire on the Mountain" (1962). Although it initially garnered little attention, "Desert Solitaire" was eventually recognized as an iconic work of nature writing and a staple of early environmentalist writing, bringing Abbey critical acclaim and popularity as a writer of environmental, political, and philosophical issues.