Jim Harrison

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James Thomas "Jim" Harrison (born December 11, 1937 in Grayling , Michigan , † March 26, 2016 in Patagonia , Arizona ) was an American writer .

Life

Jim Harrison grew up on a farm in Reed City , Michigan. His father, who worked for the Michigan Department of Agriculture, and his sister died in a car accident in 1958. He attended high school in Haslett , Michigan. As a teenager he worked in Colorado and hitchhiked back for the first time in the landscape of the Sandhills . Harrison married Linda King in 1959; they had two daughters. He lived alternately in Patagonia, Arizona and Livingston , Montana .

Harrison studied literature at Michigan State University and graduated with a master's degree in 1964 . He worked for a short time as an assistant at the State University of New York and made his way as a freelance writer from 1966, initially in very modest circumstances. He wrote poetry and in 1971 published Wolf: A False Memoir, his first novel. In his early days he received scholarships from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and in 1969 a Guggenheim Fellowship . He received the Spirit of the West Award from the Mountain & Plains Booksellers Association and was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2007.

Harrison has published short stories and essays in leading American magazines and has published a variety of novels, collections of short stories and poetry. Two novels were made into a film: Revenge (1990) and Legends of the Fall (1994). He wrote the screenplay for the film adaptation of Wolf with Wesley Strick in 1994 , for which they received the Saturn Award . In 2015 Harrison was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

Works (selection)

  • Wolf . New York: Simon and Schuster, 1971
  • A Good Day to Die . New York, Simon and Schuster, 1973
  • Farmer . New York, Viking Press, 1976
  • Legends of the Fall . Three novels. New York, Delacorte Press, 1979
  • Warlock . New York, Delacorte Press, 1981
  • Sundog: The story of an American foreman, Robert Corvus Strang, as told to Jim Harrison . New York, Dutton, 1984
  • Dalva . New York, Dutton, 1988
  • The Woman Lit by Fireflies . Stories. Boston, HoughtonMifflin, 1990
  • Julip . Stories. Boston, Houghton Mifflin / Seymour Lawrence, 1994
  • The Road Home . New York, Atlantic Monthly Press, 1998
    • Light over the Land: Roman . From the American. by Edda Petri . Bergisch Gladbach: Ed. Luebbe 1999
  • The Beast God Forgot to Invent: Novellas . New York, Atlantic Monthly Press, 2000
  • True north , New York, AtlanticMonthly Press, 2004
    • Guilt: Roman . From the English by Christel Dormagen. Zurich: Arche 2009
  • The Summer He Didn't Die . Stories. 2005
  • Returning To Earth . 2007
  • The English Major . 2008
  • The Farmer's Daughter . Stories. 2009
  • The great leader . 2011
  • The River Swimmer . Stories. 2013
  • Brown Dog . 2013
  • 11 volumes of poetry between 1965 and 1998 (as of 2000)

literature

  • Nancy Bunge: Jim Harrison , in: The encyclopedia of twentieth century fiction , Volume 2. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011, p. 612 f. [used here]
  • Edward C. Reilly: Jim Harrison . New York: Twayne Publishers 1996
  • Patrick A. Smith: "The True Bones of My Life". Essays on the Fiction of Jim Harrison . Michigan State University Press, 2002
  • Interview, in: The Paris Review , Issue 107, 1988

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hillel Italie: 'Legends of the Fall' Author Jim Harrison Dead at 78. In: abcnews.go.com. March 27, 2016, accessed March 27, 2016 .
  2. ↑ a b c Jim Harrison: A prairie prologue in Nebraska. In: International New York Times , January 3, 2015, p. 20.
personal data
SURNAME Harrison, Jim
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Harrison, James Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer
DATE OF BIRTH December 11, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Grayling , Michigan , United States
DATE OF DEATH March 26, 2016
Place of death Patagonia , Arizona , United States