James "Jim" Harrison is an American author known for his poetry, fiction, essays, reviews, 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 by dint 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. Harrison was born in Grayling,... Michigan, to Winfield Sprague Harrison, a county agricultural agent, and Norma Olivia Harrison, both avid readers. He became blind in one eye after a childhood accident . When he was 21 his father and sister died in an automobile accident. He was educated at Michigan State University where he received his B.A. and M.A. in comparative literature. In 1959, he married Linda King, with whom he has two daughters.
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