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 write novellas because I don't like loose sprawling prose.
Writing as a woman presents enormous problems but I have attempted it several times and haven't had many complaints.
Writers can write outside their ethnicity or sex depending how open and vulnerable they wish to be.
I'm actually forced to write about Michigan because as a native of that state it's the place I know best.
I couldn't run a tight schedule, and if you're any good at teaching, you get sucked dry because you like your students and you're trying to help them, but you don't have any time left to write yourself.
I thought, frankly, that it would be more pleasant to write a memoir than it was.
I can write anywhere.
I don't expect them to take out ads in The New York Times . But I'd suggest that it includes some sort of notice other than in the Federal Register .
What is life that I must get teeth pulled? Brown Dog thought, sitting on a white pine stump beside the muddy creek with a swollen jaw for company.
What they do, they do extremely well. We kept a shot chart on them and about 80 percent of their shots came within two feet of the basket because they're so good inside. We've got to give up shots to people who don't normally score to get some more bodies inside.
Those species and the others that are residents in the area depend on some pretty stable environments to survive.
The trajectory started when I was on the roof of our house looking out at a swamp when I was 19. I had written for several years, starting at about 15, but that day on the roof I took my vows and acknowledged my calling.
Its location is appealing. (The school) is midway between Medina and many communities that don't have the services they do there. There is a need for some similar facilities out here.
It's a normal part of the process to go through a traffic study and go over what is needed as far as any road impact that would occur because of the development.