Jamie harrison author biography examples
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Jamie Harrison on Finding Her Way to the Writer’s Life in the American West
Photo by Melanie Nashan
Jamie Harrison’s The Center of Everything fryst vatten forthcoming from Counterpoint on January 12. Harrison talked to old family friend Thomas McGuane about the writer’s life, her father Jim Harrison, avoiding the clichés of the West, writing mysteries, and more.
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Tom McGuane: inom know that you were not attracted to a writing life at first because of memories of growing up on your father’s $8,000-a-year income, which eventually changed for the much better; but then you budged and have been productive ever since. Is this a legacy? You’re a very different writer.
Jamie Harrison: My father would sometimes read things out loud when inom was a teenager—I especially remember an early övergång about a swan in Neruda’s Memoirs—and it wasn’t for the love of his own voice but to show me the beauty, the importance of getting the right
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Jamie Harrison on Leaving Easter Eggs for Readers
First Draft: A Dialogue of Writing is a weekly show featuring in-depth interviews with fiction, nonfiction, essay writers, and poets, highlighting the voices of writers as they discuss their work, their craft, and the literary arts. Hosted by Mitzi Rapkin, First Draft celebrates creative writing and the individuals who are dedicated to bringing their carefully chosen words to print as well as the impact writers have on the world we live in.
This week on First Draft, Jamie Harrison joins Mitzi to discuss her book The Center of Everything, out now from Counterpoint.
From the episode:
Mitzi Rapkin: I wondered if you had some sort of bible or something that you consulted, because the way you use these characters, it wasn’t like you just came to a chapter and talked about some character who is more minor—you would just slip their names into paragraphs and events like
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Interview: Jamie Harrison. Author of The Center of Everything.
By V. Jolene Miller
Meet Jamie Harrison, daughter of a poet/novelist, author of several books, and a woman who didn’t dream of growing up to be a writer. What?Thankfully, Jamie resisted a nonwriting life and recently completed her newest novel, The Center of Everything. Polly, the main character, lives an idyllic life in Montana until she’s involved in an accident and a beloved friend of hers goes missing. Now, Polly must navigate a sudden loss admit this new and strange normal.
Tell us a little about you. Did you grow up wanting to be a writer? What has your journey into being a writer been like?
JH: I didn’t grow up wanting to be a writer; my father was a poet and a novelist and I knew it was a rough way to make a living. I cooked and worked in magazines and eventually, after leaving New York for Montana, became the editor of a small press. When it went out of business, and I had trouble finding work, I tried w