Jim Harrison was an American novelist and poet. During his life, he published over three dozen books in multiple genres while also writing literary criticism, screenplays, book reviews, and more. He is perhaps best known for his trilogy of novellas, Legends of the Fall which were later made into movies.

In his career, he received many awards and accolades for his work including the Guggenheim Fellowship, the Mark Twain award, and later was inducted into the American Academy of Arts & Letters. Harrison grew up in Michigan and later attended Michigan State University where he received a BA and MA in comparative literature. He would marry his with and have two daughters during this time. Harrison passed away in March of 2016 after a hear attack.

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The Woman Lit by Fireflies(1990)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Julip(1994)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Beast God Forgot to Invent(2000)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Summer He Didn't Die(2005)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Farmer's Daughter(2009)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The River Swimmer(2013)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Brown Dog(2013)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Ancient Minstrel(2016)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

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Plain Song(1965)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Locations(1968)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Outlyer and Ghazals(1971)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Letters to Yesenin(1973)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Natural World(1982)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Selected & New Poems, 1961-1981(1982)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Theory and Practice of Rivers and New Poems(1990)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
After Ikkyu and Other Poems(1996)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Shape of the Journey(1998)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Braided Creek(2003)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Saving Daylight(2006)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
In Search of Small Gods(2009)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Songs of Unreason(2011)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Darkness Sticks to Everything: Collected and New Poems (With: Tom Hennen)(2013)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Dead Man's Float(2015)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Jim Harrison: The Essential Poems(2019)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Jim Harrison: Collected Ghazals(2020)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

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The Search for the Genuine: Nonfiction, 1970-2015(2022)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

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Just Before Dark(1993)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Raw and the Cooked(2001)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Off to the Side(2002)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Etiquette of Freedom(2010)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
A Really Big Lunch(2017)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

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Conversations with Jorge Luis Borges(1969)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
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Truman Capote: Conversations(1987)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
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If You Like Jim Harrison Books, You’ll Love…

Legends of the Fall is Harrison’s epic tale of three brothers fighting for justice in the world. The book takes place across the globe from early twentieth-century Montana to the battlefields of World War I and back to Montana. The book is famous for painting an portrait of the twentieth century man and the levels that he would go to when he felt his life or goal was threatened.

Another great book by Harrison is Dalva: A Novel. The book sees a woman named Dalva who grew up on the Nebraska prairie, but now lives in California. Even from California, she can hear the silence of her home and the memories of the son she gave up for adoption haunt her. At forty-five, she is haunted by her life and decides to return home with hopes of finding her family and the half-Sioux man she once loved. This book is one of Harrison’s most memorable as it explores a great family through the eyes of an unforgettable woman.

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