Jim Harrison
Jim Harrison
James "Jim" Harrisonwas an American author known for his poetry, fiction, reviews, essays about the outdoors, and writings about food. He is best known for his 1979 novella Legends of the Fall. He has been called "a force of nature", and his work has been compared to that of William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway. Harrison's characters tend to be rural by birth and to have retained some qualities of their agrarian pioneer heritage in spite of their intelligence and some...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth11 December 1937
CountryUnited States of America
I don't really think it's going to end up to be a huge issue on the retail end.
I seek the substantial in life.
When we die we are only stories in the minds of others, I thought
I'd rather get a brain tumor than go back to teaching.
I write novellas because I don't like loose sprawling prose.
Yeah, but now suddenly - you know, universities are notoriously market oriented, too.
I enjoy about 1 out of 100 movies, it's about the same proportion to books published that I care to read.
Writing as a woman presents enormous problems but I have attempted it several times and haven't had many complaints.
I see more genuine sociability between the races in Mississippi than I see in Michigan. No question.
Short things are short all over and long things are long all over.
So when I made some money, I didn't have any idea how one handled such a situation because no one in our family ever had any money.
After a lifetime of world travel I've been fascinated that those in the third world don't have the same perception of reality that we do.
I used to get criticized for putting food in novels.
I should add that I very much enjoy certain cities especially Paris, New York and Chicago.