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(1937-2016) Poet, novelist, essayist. Jim Harrison was born in Grayling, Michigan, and died in Patagonia, Arizona. He taught briefly at the State University of New York at Stony Brook in the mid 1960s.

Full Name

Jim Harrison

Locations

Suffolk

Author's Timeline


1937

BIRTH

James Thomas Harrison was born in Grayling, Michigan, on December 11, 1937.

1965

OTHER

Mr. Harrison was a professor of English at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, New York, from 1965 to 1966.

1965

LITWORK

Plain Song
W. W. Norton

Poetry.

1971

LITWORK

Wolf: A False Memoir
Simon & Schuster
0671210572 / 978-0671210571
Novel.

1979

LITWORK

Legends of the Fall
Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence
0440054613 / 978-0440054610
A collection of three novellas.

1989

LITWORK

The Theory & Practice of Rivers
Winn Books, Publishers
091694705X / 978-0916947057
Poetry.

1990

LITWORK

Revenge


Screenplay based on his novella of the same name and co-written with Jeffrey Alan Fiskin.

2001

LITWORK

The Raw and the Cooked
Grove Press
0802116981 / 978-0802116987
Nonfiction.

2006

LITWORK

Returning to Earth
Grove Press
0802118380 / 978-0802118387
Novel.

2011

LITWORK

Songs of Unreason
Copper Canyon Press
1556593899 / 978-1556593895
Poetry.

2016

DEATH

Jim Harrison died at his home in Patagonia, Arizona, on March 26, 2016.

2016

LITWORK

The Ancient Minstrel
Grove Press
0802124569 / 978-0802124562
Novellas.

2016

LITWORK

Dead Man's Float
Copper Canyon Press
1556594453 / 978-1556594458
Poetry.

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