Donald Harington
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Donald Harington (1935- ) is an American author. Many of his novels take place in "Stay More," a fictional Ozark Mountains town based somewhat on Drakes Creek, Arkansas, where Harington spent summers as a child.
Harington was born and raised in Little Rock. Though he intended to be a novelist from a very early age, his course of study and his teaching career were in art and art history. He taught art history in New York, New England, and South Dakota before returning to the University of Arkansas in (Fayetteville), his alma mater.
Harington still lives in Fayetteville.
Harington lost his hearing at age 12.
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[edit] Novels
The Pitcher Shower, 2005
With, 2003
Thirteen Albatrosses, Or, Falling off the Mountain, 2002
When Angels Rest, 1998
Butterfly Weed, 1996
Ekaterina, 1993
The Choiring of the Trees, 1991
The Cockroaches of Stay More, 1989
Let Us Build a City: Eleven Lost Towns, 1986
The Architecture of the Arkansas Ozarks, 1975
Some other place: The right place; a novel, 1972
Lightning Bug, 1970
The Cherry Pit, 1965
[edit] Nonfiction
On a Clear Day: The Paintings of George Dombek, 1975-1994, 1995
[edit] Awards
Robert Penn Warren Award for Fiction, 2003
Arkansas Writers Hall of Fame, 1996
Porter Prize for Literary Excellence, 1987
