Jim Harrison (1937–2016) was born in Grayling, Michigan, and worked across poetry, fiction, essay, and screenwriting. His novella collection Legends of the Fall (1979) brought him a wide readership. His poetry collections include Plain Song (1965), Letters to Yesenin (1973), and Dead Man's Float (Copper Canyon Press, 2016), with the posthumous Jim Harrison: Complete Poems appearing from Copper Canyon in 2021. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1969, the Mark Twain Award for distinguished contributions to Midwestern literature in 1990, and the Spirit of the West Award. He was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2007.
