Exciting News: Long Awaited Castaneda Biography Reviewed Here

by DarkWarrior on April 10, 2026

Posted in Castaneda Critique, Castaneda Cult, Link Reviews, New material

After eighteen years of research, Ru Marshall’s American Trickster: The Hidden Lives of Carlos Castaneda (OR Books, 2026) has arrived — and it is, by any measure, the most complete portrait of Carlos Castaneda yet assembled. Part biography, part intellectual history, part cult analysis, and part philosophical excavation, the book traces Castaneda’s story from its Peruvian origins

Castaneda Biographer Ru Marshall

by DarkWarrior on August 17, 2024

Just added a Menu page to the site regarding Castaneda biographer Ru Marshall, author of the insightful 2007 Salon article about Castaneda, whose long awaited, thoroughly researched biography of Castaneda is due to be published by Red Hen Press in Spring 2006. The new page includes links to Ru’s own website as well as other