Harrison also served on the original board of directors (1970–75) for the Associated Writing Programs during the great growth period of creative writing in American literary education. He was also on the board of advisors for the Natural and Cultural Heritage Commission for the State of Arkansas (1976–81). Harrison received a Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship in Fiction (1973), a National Endowment for the Arts Grant for Fiction (1977), the Christopher Award for Television (1970) and a Columbia School of Journalism Prize with Esquire Magazine (1971). He has been represented in Who’s Who in America since 1975. His stories have been anthologized in The Best American Short Stories (1968), Southern Writing in the Sixties (1967), All Our Secrets Are the Same: New Fiction from Esquire (1977), The Literature of Sport (1980), The Best American Mystery Stories (2006), New Stories from the South (2006), Fifty Years of Descant (2008) and numerous textbooks. Merlee was Harrison's wife of more than fifty years, and his children are Laurie, singer/songwriter Sean Harrison and Quentin. He lived in Fayetteville until his death, although he traveled widely in Africa, China, the Middle East and Europe. He was a longtime baseball fan and Chicago Cubs supporter. He was an active fly fisherman and played tennis and golf. His heroes were Anton Chekhov, Joseph Conrad, Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway and John Cheever, but he taught hundreds of fine authors in his classes and offered seminars on James Joyce, Vladimir Nabokov, Federico Fellini and others. Novels The Theologian (1965) In a Wild Sanctuary (1969) Lessons in Paradise (1971) Africana (1976) Savannah Blue (1979) Brubaker (1980), novelization of the screenplay by W.D. Richter and Arthur Ross Burton and Speke (1982) Three Hunters (1989) The Blood Latitudes (2000) Black August (2011) Short story collections Roller Ball Murder and Other Stories (1975) The Buddha in Malibu: Stories (1998) Texas Heat and Other Stories (2005) Non-fiction The Mutations of Rollerball: Essays (2010) Screenplays Rollerball (1975) directed by Norman Jewison for United Artists Mountains of the Moon (1990) directed by Bob Rafelson for Carolco/Tri-Star External links References 1933 births 2013 deaths Vanderbilt University alumni American adoptees American male novelists Writers from Dallas People from Fayetteville, Arkansas University of Arkansas faculty 20th-century American novelists American male short story writers 20th-century American short story writers 20th-century American male writers Novelists from Texas