Harris Downey

Harris Downey (born May 12, 1907 Baton Rouge, Louisiana - 1979) was an American short story writer and novelist.

Life

He graduated from Louisiana State University with a B.A. and M.A. He Served in the Air Force. He taught at Louisiana State University,[1] where he knew Lyle Saxon.[2]

His work appeared in Epoch,[3] Prairie Schooner.[4][5][6] Kenyon Review,[7]

Awards

Works
  • Thunder in the Room. MacMillan. 1956.
  • The Key to My Prison. Dial Press. 1965.
  • Carrie Dumain. H. Regnery Co. 1966.

Lyrics to LSU's Alma Mater

Anthologies
  • Martha Foley, ed. (1956). Best American Short Stories 1956. H M publisher.

Reviews

Thunder in the Room, by Harris Downey (205 pp.; Macmillan; $3), is a first novel which attempts a Joycean account of a day in the life of some citizens of a Southern capital, but often it seems more like a long afternoon spent in a botanical garden.[8]

References
  1. Robert Bain; Joseph M. Flora; Louis Decimus Rubin, eds. (1979). Southern writers: a biographical dictionary. LSU Press. ISBN 978-0-8071-0390-6.
  2. Lyle Saxon: a critical biography. Summa Publications, Inc. 1991. ISBN 978-0-917786-83-9.
  3. Cornell University (1950). "Epoch". Epoch; A Quarterly of Contemporary Literature. Cornell University (v. 3-4). ISSN 0145-1391.
  4. Wimberly, L.C.; Sigma Upsilon. Wordsmith Chapter; University of Nebraska (Lincoln campus); University of Nebraska (Lincoln campus). Dept. of English (1949). Prairie Schooner. University of Nebraska Press. ISSN 0032-6682.
  5. Wimberly, L.C.; Sigma Upsilon. Wordsmith Chapter; University of Nebraska (Lincoln campus); University of Nebraska (Lincoln campus). Dept. of English (1955). The Prairie Schooner. University of Nebraska Press. ISSN 0032-6682.
  6. Wimberly, L.C.; Sigma Upsilon. Wordsmith Chapter; University of Nebraska (Lincoln campus); University of Nebraska (Lincoln campus). Dept. of English (1957). Prairie Schooner. University of Nebraska Press. ISSN 0032-6682.
  7. Ransom, J.C.; Kenyon College (1961). "The Kenyon Review". Kenyon Review, the. Kenyon College (v. 23). ISSN 0163-075X.
  8. "Books: Mixed Fiction". Time. October 22, 1956.
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