AKA James Thomas Harrison

Born: 11-Dec-1937
Birthplace: Grayling, MI
Died: 26-Mar-2016
Location of death: Patagonia, AZ
Cause of death: unspecified

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Novelist, Poet

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Legends of the Fall

Father: Winfield Sprague Harrison
Mother: Norma Olivia Wahlgren
Brother: David Harrison
Sister: Mary Dumsch
Wife: Linda King (m. 1959, d. 2015, two daughters)
Daughter: Jamie Louise Potenberg
Daughter: Anna Severin Hjortsberg

    University: BA Comparative Literature, Michigan State University (1960)
    University: MA, Michigan State University (1965)
    Professor: English, SUNY Stony Brook (1965-66)

Author of books:
Plain Songs (1965, poetry)
Walking (1967, poetry)
Locations (1968, poetry)
Outlyer and Ghazals (1969, poetry)
Wolf: A False Memoir (1971, novel)
A Good Day to Die (1973, novel)
Letters to Yesenin (1973, poetry)
Farmer (1976, novel)
Returning to Earth (1977, poetry)
Legends of the Fall (1979, novellas)
Warlock (1981, novel)
Sundog (1984, novel)
The Theory and Practice of Rivers (1985, poetry)
Dalva (1988, novel)
The Woman Lit by Fireflies (1990, novellas)
Just Before Dark: Collected Nonfiction (1991, nonfiction)
The Raw and the Cooked (1992, nonfiction)
Julip (1994, novellas)
After Ikkyu and Other Poems (1996, poetry)
The Road Home (1998, novel)
The Shape of the Journey: New and Collected Poems (1998, poetry)
The Beast God Forgot to Invent (2000, novellas)
Off to the Side: A Memoir (2002, memoir)
True North (2004, novel)
The Summer He Didn't Die (2005, novellas)
Livingston Suite (2005, poetry)
Saving Daylight (2006, poetry)

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