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James "Jim" Harrison (born December 11, 1937) is an American author known for his poetry, fiction, reviews, essays about the outdoors, and writings about food. He has been called "a force of nature", and his work has been compared to that of William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway. Harrison's characters tend to be rural by birth and to have retained some qualities of their agrarian pioneer heritage in spite of their intelligence and some formal education. They attune themselves to both the natural and the civilized world, surrounded by excesses but determined to live their lives as well as possible.〔The Bloomsbury Review, January/February 1999〕 ==Biography== Harrison was born in Grayling, Michigan, to Winfield Sprague Harrison, a county agricultural agent, and Norma Olivia (Wahlgren) Harrison, both avid readers. He became blind in one eye after a childhood accident ("My left eye is blind and jogs like/a milky sparrow in its socket").〔Sketch for a Job-Application Blank〕 He is a 1956 graduate of Haslett High School, Haslett, Michigan. When he was 21, his father and sister died in an automobile accident. In 1959, he married Linda King, with whom he has two daughters. He was educated at Michigan State University, where he received a B.A. (1960) and M.A. (1964) in comparative literature. After a short stint as assistant professor of English at State University of New York, Stony Brook (1965–66), Harrison started working full-time as a writer. His awards include National Academy of Arts grants (1967, 1968, and 1969), a Guggenheim Fellowship (1969–70), the Spirit of the West Award from the Mountain & Plains Booksellers Association, and election to the American Academy of Arts and Letters (2007). His work has appeared in many leading publications, including ''The New Yorker'', ''Esquire'', ''Sports Illustrated'', ''Rolling Stone'', ''Outside'', ''Playboy'', ''Men's Journal'', and ''The New York Times Book Review''. He has published several collections of novellas, two of which were eventually turned into films: ''Revenge'' (1990) and ''Legends of the Fall'' (1994). Much of Harrison's writing is set in sparsely populated regions of North America and its West. Many stories are set in places such as Nebraska's Sand Hills, Michigan's Upper Peninsula, Montana's mountains, and along the Arizona-Mexico border. Harrison lives in both Patagonia, Arizona, and Livingston, Montana. On August 31, 2009, he was featured in an episode of Anthony Bourdain's television show ''No Reservations,'' which took place in and around Livingston. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jim Harrison」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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