Jim Harrison

New York Times bestselling author Jim Harrison was one of America's most beloved and critically acclaimed writers. The classic Legends of the Fall is Harrison at his most memorable: a striking collection of novellas written with exceptional brilliance and a ferocious love of life. The title novella, Legends of the Fall — which was made into the film of the...

Braided Creek: A Conversation in Poetry is one of the dearest, most appealing books ever published. These poems are tiny, delicious American haiku affectionately exchanged between two friends. This slim volume acts as a palate-cleanser, a spirit-booster, a little rocket-ship of wonders. While Ted Kooser and Jim Harrison were an unlikely pair to become friends, they shared an intimate correspondence...

In the universally-praised Returning to Earth, Jim Harrison has delivered a masterpiece—a tender, profound, and magnificent novel about life, death, and the possibility of finding redemption in unlikely places. Donald is a middle-aged Chippewa-Finnish man slowly dying of Lou Gehrig's disease. His condition deteriorating, he realises no one will be able to pass on to his children their family history...

"What Harrison does on every page of Brown Dog is have fun . . . not simply for the sake of delight but because he believes delight is as close to sublimity as humans can get. . . . The great project of life, he reminds us, is to sit still long enough to appreciate it." - Anthony Doerr, The...

From her home on the California coast, Dalva hears the broad silence of the Nebraska prairie where she was born and longs for the son she gave up for adoption years before. Beautiful, fearless, tormented, at forty-five she has lived a life of lovers and adventures. Now, Dalva begins a journey that will take her back to the bosom of...