Jim Harrison

Biography

The mother of Jim Harrison is of Swedish origin. His/her father was agricultural agent, specialized in the conservation of the grounds. When it is three years old, its family moves in the town of Reed City (Michigan). At the eight years age, its left eye is accidentally burst during a play. At 16 years, it decides to become writer " from my romantic convictions and the deep trouble felt vis-a-vis the middle-class lifestyle and middle class". It leaves Michigan to live the great adventure with Boston and New York. In 1960, at the 23 years age, he marries Linda King. They are still married today, and had two girls, Jamie and Anna. He obtains this same year a license of letters. In 1962, his/her father and his Judith sister die in an automobile accident. In 1965, it is engaged as English assistant at the University of Stony Brook in the state of New York but gives up a university career quickly. To raise his daughters, it writes articles of newspapers, scenarios, at the same time as are published its first novels and its collections of poems. In 1967, the family turns over in Michigan to settle in a farm with Lake Leelanau. Jim Harrison meets Jack Nicholson, that Thomas McGuane, which works with the writing of scenarios for Hollywood, presents to him. Jack Nicholson becomes her friend and lends to him the sufficient money so that it can nourish his family while spending time to write.

Jim Harrison can be regarded as a major contemporary writer.

Its universe is an extraordinary mixture of deep America, scholarship and Indian culture.

Its work

Lime pit song (1965) poems
Hirings (1968)
Outlyer and Ghazals (Remote and Ghazals) (1971)
Wolf, has false to memoir (Wolf, Mémoires fictitious) (1971) Romance
has good day to die (a good day to die) (1973) Romance
Farmer (Northern Michigan) (1975) Romance
Letters to Yesenin (Letters with Essessine) (1973)
Returning to earth (1977)
Legend off the fall (Legend of autumn) (1979) new
Warlock (Wizard) (1981) Romance
Selected and new poems (1982)
Sundog (False sun) (1984) Romance
Dalva (1988) Romance
The theory and practice off rivers and other poems (Theory and practical of the rivers) (1989)
Just before dark (Between dog and wolf) (1990)
The woman reads by fire flies (the woman with the fireflies) (1990) new
Julip (1994) new
After ikkyu and other poems (the moon eclipse of Davenport) (1996)
The Road Home (the road of the return) (1998) Romance
The shape off the journey (1998)
Westward Ho (On the way towards the west) (2000) new
The servant boy who ran to the woods (The boy who off flees in wood) (2000)
Adventures has roving greedy (The raw and the cooked) (2001) collection of tests
Off the side (In margin) (2002) autobiography
True North (Of Inlays in Vera Cruz) (2004) Romance
The Summer He Didn' T Die (the summer when it failed to die) (2005) new
Returning to Earth (ground Return) (2007) Romance

Adaptations cinema

1989 : Cold Feet , of Robert Dornhelm
1990: Revenge ( Revenge ), of Tony Scott
1994: Wolf , of Mike Nichols
1994: Legends of autumn ( Legends off the Fall ), of Edward Zwick
1996: Dalva , of Ken Cameron (TV)
1996: Carried Away , of Bruno Barreto

External bonds

an interview in the magazine the Express train at the time of the exit of '' Of Inlays in Vera cruz ''

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