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 got $30 from Nation magazine for a poem and $500 for my first book of poems.
Michigan is two radically different places - the North and the South which makes for good drama and contrast.
Because most writers have totally unrealistic concepts of how publishing works.
Writers can write outside their ethnicity or sex depending how open and vulnerable they wish to be.
There is a neurologist, a woman over at Harvard who wanted me to come talk to them, and in France I have a lot of readers in the sciences. I can't tell you why.
Fate has never ladled out hardship very evenly, and this frequently trips our often infantile sense of justice.
Everybody has a gun in their car in Detroit.
I'm actually forced to write about Michigan because as a native of that state it's the place I know best.
I don't know what psychotherapy does. I have been seeing the same person for 26 years now.
That is simply the most beautiful publishing office in the world, with that cranky old building in that wonderful park.
Nothing on my trip thus far was as I expected which shows you that rather than simply read about the United States you have to log the journey.
I do have trouble with titles.
The fact is, the media never gets off the interstate unless there's a major explosion.
I've never felt influenced by Ernest Hemingway though I suppose there is something inevitable there.