Donald Harrington (1935–2009)
Autor/a de The Architecture of the Arkansas Ozarks
Sobre l'autor
Donald Harington was born and raised in Little Rock, Arkansas. He spent nearly all of his early summers in the Ozark mountain hamlet of Drakes Creek. He knew at an early age that he wanted to be a writer, but also wanted to be a teacher. He has taught art history at a variety of colleges in New mostra'n més York, New England, South Dakota and finally at his alma mater, the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, where he lectured for approximately 22 years, until his retirement in 2008. Harington won the Porter Prize in 1987, the Heasley Prize at Lyon College in 1998, was inducted into the Arkansas Writers' Hall of Fame in 1999 and that same year won the Arkansas Fiction Award of Arkansas Library Association. Many of this novels take place in the fictional town of Stay More, which is loosely based on Drakes Creek. Harington died in 2009. (Publisher Fact Sheets) mostra'n menys
Crèdit de la imatge: DonaldHarington.com
Sèrie
Obres de Donald Harrington
The Return 1 exemplars
Obres associades
Christmas in the South: Holiday Stories from the South's Best Writers (2004) — Col·laborador — 26 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Nom normalitzat
- Harrington, Donald
- Nom oficial
- Harington, Donald Douglas
- Data de naixement
- 1935-12-22
- Data de defunció
- 2009-11-07
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- USA
- Lloc de naixement
- Little Rock, Arkansas, USA
- Lloc de defunció
- Springdale, Arkansas, USA
- Causa de la mort
- pneumonia
- Llocs de residència
- Fayetteville, Arkansas, USA
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Millbrook, New York, USA
Putney, Vermont, USA - Educació
- University of Arkansas (BA|1956|MFA|1958)
Boston University (MA|1959)
Harvard University - Professions
- professor
novelist
art historian - Organitzacions
- University of Arkansas
Windham College
Bennett College - Premis i honors
- Robert Penn Warren Award for Fiction (2003)
Oxford American Lifetime Achievement Award (2006)
Arkansas Writers Hall of Fame (1999)
Porter Prize for Literary Excellence (1987)
Heasley Prize (1998)
Arkansas Fiction Award (1999)
Membres
Ressenyes
Llistes
Five star books (1)
Premis
Potser també t'agrada
Autors associats
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 22
- També de
- 1
- Membres
- 1,419
- Popularitat
- #18,132
- Valoració
- 4.1
- Ressenyes
- 34
- ISBN
- 76
- Llengües
- 1
- Preferit
- 15
The Bluff-dweller resonated with me
Another minor gripe was unlike the other Stay More books, I thought the post-modern elements in [b:Farther Along|2572534|Farther Along|Donald Harington|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1347685180s/2572534.jpg|2583895] detracted from the story.
Sub-par [a:Donald Harington|159630|Donald Harington|https://d.gr-assets.com/authors/1240153955p2/159630.jpg] is still pretty darn good though and well worth reading.
Bummed that only have one more left, [b:Enduring|6408441|Enduring|Donald Harington|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1347749757s/6408441.jpg|6597355]
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