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About Jim Harrison
American poet, novelist, and essayist
Jim Harrison was an American poet, novelist, and essayist. He wrote across the 20th and early 21st centuries, and remains best known for the range of his work and for the poems he valued most. He is associated with 113 quotes on this site. Harrison published more than three dozen books in poetry, fiction, nonfiction, children’s literature, and memoir. He also wrote screenplays, book reviews, and literary criticism, and he published essays on food, travel, and sport. Among his many forms, he said poetry mattered most to him.
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- “My favorite thing is just walking in the woods. I can do it for days on end without tiring of it.”Jim Harrison
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- “If all I did was answer the correspondence I get, that would be my job.”Jim Harrison
- “So when I made some money, I didn't have any idea how one handled such a situation because no one in our fami…”Jim Harrison
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- “When a young reader tells you that they'd never finished a book outside of school until they read yours, or t…”Sara Zarr
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Books by Jim Harrison
Warlock
1981
Letters to Yesenin
1973