Jim Harrison

Jim Harrison was born in Grayling, Michigan, to Winfield Sprague Harrison, a county agricultural agent, and Norma Olivia (Wahlgren) Harrison, both avid readers. He married Linda King in 1959 with whom he has two daughters. His awards include National Academy of Arts grants (1967, 68, 69), a Guggenheim Fellowship (1969-70), the Spirit of the West Award from the Mountain & Plains Booksellers Association, and election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2007).Much of Harrison's writing depicts sparsely populated regions of North America with many stories set in places such as Nebraska's Sand Hills, Michigan's Upper Peninsula, Montana's mountains, and along the Arizona-Mexico border.He currently divides his residence, living in both Patagonia, Arizona and Livingston, Montana.

Quotes

Roberto Garzahas quotedlast year
This is all less sentimental than it is unfinished business, a longing to know someone I have no particular right to know
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father would put the record on the Victrola
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But I’m not one to live or subsist on memory
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