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Jim Harrison has published thirteen collections of poetry, including The Shape of the Journey: New and Collected Poems; After Ikkyu; The Theory and Practice of Rivers; Natural World: A Bestiary; Returning to Earth; and Locations.  He has worked as a screenwriter, book reviewer, literary critic, food columnist, sportswriter, and conservationist. 

Other works include a collection of novellas, The Summer He Didn’t Die, and Legends of the Fall, which was made into a celebrated film. Mr. Harrison has been honored with fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation.  He was born in northern Michigan in 1937 and continued to reside there until recently. He and his wife now divide their time between Montana and Arizona. 

Harrison is also the author of the non-fiction The Raw and the Cooked: Adventures of a Roving Gourmand, earning him the title, “The Henry Miller of food writing” in the Wall Street Journal.

The Jim Harrison Papers, which consist of manuscripts, unpublished material, correspondence, notebooks, screenplays, photographs, and correspondence with noted American writers, including Gary Snyder, Robert Bly, Ted Kooser, and Peter Matthiessen, were recently acquired by Grand Valley State University in Michigan.  His newest poetry collection, Saving Daylight, will be published by Copper Canyon Press in 2006.