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Dec 11, 1937 — Mar 26, 2016· 78 yrs

UNITED STATES AUTHOR · FICTION · GENERAL

Jim Harrison

Also known as: Harrison, Jim, Jim Harrison

38
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3.7
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James Harrison was born in Grayling, Michigan, the son of a county agricultural agent. He was blinded in one eye in childhood. His father and sister died in a car accident when he was 21. He attended Michigan State University and received a B.A. in 1960 and an M.A in 1964 in Comparative Literature. After working as an assistant professor of English at State University of New York, Stony Brook, he became a full-time writer.

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Seven years came and went.

— from Warlock, 1958

Most acclaimed

#2

Legends of the fall

1978

4.5 (2)

A disgruntled corporate functionary, three brothers and their different fates, and an American pilot struggling with a Mexican crime lord articulate Harrison's vision of twentieth-century man in this trilogy of short novels.

#1

Warlock

1958

0.0 (0)

"Johnny Lundgren, a.k.a. Warlock, is an unemployed foundation executive whose life is about to become unhinged. After surviving a midlife crises, Warlock finally decides to get a job. He soon discovers, however, that his new boss, Dr. Rabun, is no less evil than Professor Moriarty. Hired to troubleshoot for the doctor, Warlock finds himself battling poachers in the haunted wilderness of norther Michigan while also spying on his employer's wife and son in the seamy underside of Key West. A comedy with one foot in the abyss, Warlock is a singular literary entertainment from an American master." -Delta Trade Paperback 1989

#3

Saving Daylight

2006

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