Jim Harrison

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Jim Harrison (born December 11, 1937), is an American author known for his poetry, fiction, essays, reviews, and writings about food.

Contents 1 Biography 2 Works 2.1 Fiction 2.2 Children's literature 2.3 Nonfiction 2.4 Poetry 3 External links

[edit] Biography

Harrison was born in Grayling, Michigan, to Winfield Sprague Harrison, a county agricultural agent, and Norma Olivia (Wahlgren) Harrison.

His work has appeared in Esquire, Sports Illustrated, Rolling Stone, Outside, Playboy, Men's Journal, and The New York Times Magazine. He has published several collections of novellas, including Legends of the Fall (1979), which contained two that were eventually turned into films: Revenge (1990) and Legends of the Fall (1994).

Much of Harrison's writing depicts the Upper Peninsula of Michigan prior to the major development that has taken place in the last two decades.

[edit] Works

[edit] Fiction

• Wolf: A False Memoir (1971)
• A Good Day to Die (1973)
• Farmer (1976)
• Legends of the Fall (Three novellas: "Revenge" "The Man Who Gave Up His Name" "Legends of the Fall") (1979)
• Warlock (1981)
• Sundog: The Story of an American Foreman, Robert Corvus Strang (1984)
• Dalva (1988)
• The Woman Lit By Fireflies (Three novellas: "Brown Dog" "Sunset Limited" "The Woman Lit by Fireflies") (1990)
• Julip (Three novellas: "Julip" "The Seven-Ounce Man" "The Beige Dolorosa") (1994)
• The Road Home (1998)
• The Beast God Forgot to Invent (Three novellas: "The Beast God Forgot to Invent" "Westward Ho" "I Forgot to Go to Spain") (2000)
• True North (2004)
• The Summer He Didn't Die (Three novellas: "The Summer He Didn't Die" "Republican Wives" "Tracking") (2005)
• Returning To Earth (Grove Press - January 2007)

[edit] Children's literature

• The Boy Who Ran to the Woods (Illustrated by Tom Pohrt) (2000)

[edit] Nonfiction

• Just Before Dark: Collected Nonfiction (1991)
• The Raw and the Cooked (1992) Dim Gray Bar Press ltd ed
• The Raw and the Cooked: Adventures of a Roving Gourmand (2001)
• Off to the Side: A Memoir (2002)

[edit] Poetry

• Plain Song (1965)
• Walking (1967)
• Locations (1968)
• Outlyer and Ghazals (1971)
• Letters to Yesenin (1973)
• Returning to Earth (Court Street Chapbook Series) (1977)
• Selected and New Poems, 1961-1981 (Drawings by Russell Chatham) (1981)
• Natural World: A Bestiary (1982)
• The Theory & Practice of Rivers (1986)
• The Theory & Practice of Rivers and New Poems (1989)
• After Ikkyu and Other Poems (1996)
• The Shape of the Journey: New and Collected Poems (1998)
• Braided Creek: A Conversation in Poetry (with Ted Kooser) (2003)
• Livingston Suite (Illustrated by Greg Keeler) (2005)
• Saving Daylight (2006) ISBN 1-55659-235-3

[edit] External links

• Official site With a detailed bibliography (through 2001).
• Audio interview by Don Swaim
• Marching A poem by Jim Harrison.