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Jim Harrison 's Reading and Lecture

An extremely prolific writer, Jim Harrison has authored countless books of poetry, fiction and essays, as well as a screenplay for the movie Wolf. His books include Legends of the Fall, The Raw and the Cooked and The Beast God Forgot to Invent. Harrison has received a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Guggenheim Fellowship and two awards from the National Literary Anthology. He recently won the Spirit of the West Award from the Mountains & Plains Booksellers Association.

A review of The Beast God Forgot to Invent in Publisher's Weekly exalts Harrison's "intricate symbolism and scathing observations of urban foibles, his sly humor and vibrant language" which "remind readers that he is one of our most talented chroniclers of the masculine psyche, intellectual or not."

Jim Harrison received his B.A. and his M.A. from Michigan State University. He divides his time between northern Michigan and Arizona.

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