The Lizard Woman

<div> <p>The novel was begun in 1926 when I was twenty-four years old and working as a telephone engineer in Imperial Valley on the California-Baja California border. During my stay there I made a horseback trip down into the little-known desert interior of Lower California. After having lived all of my early years in the high Rockies of California I was unprepared for the vast sweep of sunstruck desert with its flat wastes clumps of cacti and barren parched-rock ranges. Its emotional impact was so profound I was impelled to give voice to it with pencil and paper.</p> <p>- Frank Waters</p> <p>First published in 1930 under the title <i>Fever Pitch</i> <b><i>The Lizard Woman</i></b> is Frank Waters' first novel. It foreshadows a theme central to Waters' later work: that we must attune our spirits to the land to fully understand our places in the natural order.</p> </div>