Jim Harrison (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
Though his writing has been generally well received since he published Plain Song, Jim Thomas Harrison has remained on the fringes of American letters by choosing to avoid the literary circles of New York City and rejecting academia in order to focus specifically on his craft. The son of Winfield and Olivia (Wahlgren) and the brother of four siblings, he was born in northern Michigan, a place full of the lakes, rivers, swamps, and woods that would define the geography of his poetry and prose. From Grayling, his family moved to Reed City, Michigan, near the Manistee National...
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