Jim Harrison

Jim Harrison

9 Series

Jim Harrison was an American novelist and poet known for his prolific output across multiple genres. He published over three dozen books, including literary criticism, screenplays, and book reviews. Harrison is best known for his novella trilogy, Legends of the Fall, which was adapted into a film.

In "Dalva: A Novel" by Jim Harrison, Dalva, a woman raised on the Nebraska prairie, now lives in California but is haunted by memories of her son given up for adoption. At forty-five, she decides to return to her roots to reconnect with her family and search for her former love, a half-Sioux man. Through Dalva's journey, Harrison explores the dynamics of a compelling family, making this one of his most memorable works.

Detective Sunderson

Great Leader

(2011)

The Big Seven

(2015)

Dalva

Dalva

(1988)

The Road Home

(1998)

True North

True North

(2004)

Returning to Earth

(2007)

Standalone Novels

Wolf

(1971)

A Good Day to Die

(1973)

Farmer

(1976)

Legends of the Fall

(1979)

Warlock

(1982)

Sundog

(1984)

The Boy Who Ran to the Woods

(2000)

The English Major

(2008)

Short Stories/Novellas

The Woman Lit by Fireflies

(1990)

Julip

(1994)

The Beast God Forgot to Invent

(2000)

The Summer He Didn't Die

(2005)

The Farmer's Daughter

(2009)

The River Swimmer

(2013)

Brown Dog

(2013)

The Ancient Minstrel

(2016)

Poetry

Plain Song

(1965)

Locations

(1968)

Outlyer and Ghazals

(1971)

Letters to Yesenin

(1973)

Natural World

(1982)

Selected & New Poems, 1961-1981

(1982)

The Theory and Practice of Rivers and New Poems

(1990)

After Ikkyu and Other Poems

(1996)

The Shape of the Journey

(1998)

Braided Creek

(2003)

Saving Daylight

(2006)

In Search of Small Gods

(2009)

Songs of Unreason

(2011)

Darkness Sticks to Everything: Collected and New Poems

(2013)(With: Tom Hennen)

Dead Man's Float

(2015)

Jim Harrison: The Essential Poems

(2019)

Jim Harrison: Collected Ghazals

(2020)

Collections

The Search for the Genuine: Nonfiction, 1970-2015

(2022)

Non-Fiction

Just Before Dark

(1993)

The Raw and the Cooked

(2001)

Conversations with Jim Harrison

(2002)

Off to the Side

(2002)

The Etiquette of Freedom

(2010)

A Really Big Lunch

(2017)

Anthologies

New Poems from the Third Coast: Contemporary Michigan Poetry

(2000)

Wild Stories

(2002)

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