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Born: 1937  Grayling
Died: 2016
Parents: Winfield S. Harrison (county agricultural agent), Norma Olivia Harrison
Spouse: Linda
Children: Jamie Louise, Anna Severin
Address(es):
Last known address:
Patagonia, AZ
Contact Information:
Website: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/jim-harrison
Website: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0365659/
Website: http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2014/01/it-has-to-come-to-you-why-jim-harrison-writes-patiently/282799/

Image	Title	Genre	Audience	Publisher	Date
	The Big Seven	Fiction, Michigan, Mystery	Adult	New York : Grove Press	2015
	The River Swimmer: Novellas - Michigan Notable Book, 2014	Fiction, Short Stories	Adult	New York: Grove Press	2013
	The Great Leader: A Faux Mystery	Michigan, Mystery	Adult	New York:Grove Press	2012
	Songs of Unreason - 2012 Michigan Notable Book	Poetry	Adult	Port Townsend, Wash. : Copper Canyon Press	2011
	In Search of Small Gods	Poetry	Adult	Port Townsend, Wash. :Copper Canyon Press; Reprint edition	2009
	The English Major: A Novel - 2009 Michigan Notable Book.	Fiction	Adult	New York:Grove Press	2009
	Letters to Yesinin	Poetry	Adult	Port Townsend, WA :Copper Canyon Press	2007
	Returning to Earth - 2008 Michigan Notable Book.	Fiction	Adult	New York:Grove Press	2006
	Saving Daylight	Michigan, Poetry	Adult	Port Townsend, Wash. : Cooper Canyon Press	2006
	The Summer He Didn't Die (Short Stories) - 2006 Michigan Notable Book	Fiction, Short Stories	Adult	New York: Atlantic Monthly Press	2005
	True North - 2005 Michigan Notable Book.	Fiction, Michigan	Adult	New York: Grove Press	2004
	Braided Creek : A Conversation in Poetry - With Ted Kooser	Poetry	Adult	Port Townsend, Wash. : Copper Canyon Press	2003
	Off to the Side : A Memoir - 2003 Michigan Notable Book.	Non Fiction	Adult	New York: Atlantic Monthly Press	2002
	The Raw and the Cooked : Adventures of a Roving Gourmand - Essays	Fiction	Adult	New York: Grove Press	2001
	The Beast God Forgot to Invent	Fiction, Short Stories	Adult	New York: Atlantic Monthly Press	2000
	The Boy Who Ran to the Woods	Fiction	Children	New York: Atlantic Monthly Press	2000
	The Road Home	Fiction	Adult	New York: Atlantic Monthly Press	1998
	The Shape of the Journey : New and Collected Poems	Poetry	Adult	Port Townsend, Wash. : Copper Canyon Press	1998
	The Sumac Reader - Joseph Bednarik, editor	Poetry	Adult	East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press	1997
	After Ikkyu and Other Poems	Poetry	Adult	Boulder, CO : Shambhala	1996
	Julip	Fiction, Michigan, Short Stories	Adult	New York: Houghton Mifflin	1994
	Mem-ka-weh: Dawning of the Grand Traverse Band of Ottowa and Chippewa Indians	Non Fiction	Adult	Traverse City, MI : Village Press	1992
	Just before Dark: Collected Nonfiction	Non Fiction	Adult	Livingston, MT : Clark City Press	1991
	The Woman Lit by Fireflies - Publication Years: 1990, 1991	Non Fiction	Adult	Boston : Houghton Mifflin/Seymour Lawrence, Washington Square	1990-1991
	Contemporary Michigan Poetry: Poems from the Third Coast	Poetry	Adult	Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press	1988
	Un Buen Dia para Morir - A Good Day to Die	Fiction	Adult	Laia (Barcelona)	1988
	Dalva - Made into a television movie starring Farrah Fawcett	Fiction	Adult	New York : E.P. Dutton/Seymour Lawrence, J. Cape	1988-1989
	Pathways to a Southern Coast	Fiction	Adult	Columbia, SC : University of South Carolina Press	1986
	Theory and Practice of Rivers and New Poems	Poetry	Adult	Livingston, MT : Clark City Press	1986
	Sundog : The Story of an American Foreman, Robert Corvus Strang	Fiction	Adult	New York : Dutton	1984
	Natural World: a Bestiary	Fiction	Adult	Cambridge, UK : Open Book Publications	1982
	Selected & New Poems	Poetry	Adult	New York : Delacorte	1982
	Warlock	Fiction	Adult	New York : Delacorte	1981
	Legends of the Fall - Collection of Novellas and adapted as motion picture by Susan Shilliday and Bill Witliff in 1995	Fiction	Adult	New York : Delacorte	1979
	Returning to Earth	Poetry	Adult	Greenfield Center, NY : Ithaca House	1977
	Farmer - Rural northern Michigan life and empathetic portraits of country people coincide with with the changes in body and mind of a middle-aged farmer/teacher.	Fiction, Michigan	Adult	New York: Viking Press	1976
	A Good Day to Die	Fiction	Adult	New York : Simon & Schuster	1973
	Un Bon Jour pour Mourir	Poetry	Adult	Roman R. Laffont (Paris)	1973
	Fifty Modern American and British Poets - Included in Anthology	Poetry	Adult	Philadelphia, PA : McKay	1973
	Outlyer and Ghazals	Poetry	Adult	New York : Simon & Schuster	1971
	Wolf: A False Memoir - Wrote screenplay with Wesley Strick for Columbia in 1994	Fiction	Adult	New York : Simon & Schuster	1971
	Walking	Poetry	Adult	Cambridge, MA : Pym Randall Press	1969
	Locations	Poetry	Adult	New York : Norton	1968
	Out of the War Shadow: an Anthology of Current Poetry - Poems in many anthologies such as this one	Non Fiction	Adult	New York : War Resisters League	1967
	Plain Song	Poetry	Adult	New York : Norton	1965
	Other writings: - Work has appeared in Sports Illustrated, American Poetry Review, Nation, Esquire and others	Non Fiction	Adult

What is the aim or goal of your writing: 2nd ed., says "I grew up in northern Michigan. Both my mother's and father's families were farm families from Osceola and Mecosta counties. I grew up within that framework. It's whatever you get your juice from, your ideas from. My ideas seem to be rural in nature." Harrison lives with his family on a farm in northern Michigan where he does his writing in an old grainary on the property." He is known for his lyrical treatment of the human struggle between nature and domesticity.

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