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Name
  
Harris Downey


Role
  
Short story writer

Education
  
Louisiana State University

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

Contents

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, where he knew Lyle Saxon.

His work appeared in Epoch, Prairie Schooner. Kenyon Review,

Awards

  • 1951 O. Henry Award
  • 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.

    References

    Harris Downey Wikipedia


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