Harris Downey
{{Short description|American short story writer and novelist (1907-1979)}}
{{infobox writer
|name=Harris Downey
|birth_date={{birth date|1907|5|12}}
|birth_place=Baton Rouge, Louisiana, U.S.
|death_date={{death year and age|1979|1907}}
|occupation={{flatlist|
- Short story writer
- novelist
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|education=Louisiana State University (BA, MA)
|awards=O. Henry Award (1951)
}}
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,{{cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EpX4H4JdZOgC&q=%22Harris+Downey%22&pg=PA133| title=Southern writers: a biographical dictionary|editor1=Robert Bain |editor2=Joseph M. Flora |editor3=Louis Decimus Rubin| publisher=LSU Press| year=1979| isbn=978-0-8071-0390-6 }} where he knew Lyle Saxon.{{cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=s7Pmy_-otkYC&q=%22Harris+Downey%22&pg=PA84| title=Lyle Saxon: a critical biography| publisher=Summa Publications| year=1991| isbn=978-0-917786-83-9 }}
His work appeared in Epoch,{{cite journal|title=Epoch|author=Cornell University|journal=Epoch; A Quarterly of Contemporary Literature|date=1950|issue=v. 3-4|publisher=Cornell University|issn=0145-1391|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yuoSAAAAIAAJ}} Prairie Schooner.{{cite journal|title=Prairie Schooner|author1=Wimberly, L.C.|author2=Sigma Upsilon. Wordsmith Chapter|author3=University of Nebraska (Lincoln campus)|author4=University of Nebraska (Lincoln campus). Dept. of English|journal=Prairie Schooner |date=1949|issue=v. 23|publisher=University of Nebraska Press|issn=0032-6682|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1PgvAAAAMAAJ}}{{cite journal|title=The Prairie Schooner|author1=Wimberly, L.C.|author2=Sigma Upsilon. Wordsmith Chapter|author3=University of Nebraska (Lincoln campus)|author4=University of Nebraska (Lincoln campus). Dept. of English|journal=Prairie Schooner |date=1955|issue=v. 29-30|publisher=University of Nebraska Press|issn=0032-6682|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bFAQAAAAIAAJ}}{{cite journal|title=Prairie Schooner|author1=Wimberly, L.C.|author2=Sigma Upsilon. Wordsmith Chapter|author3=University of Nebraska (Lincoln campus)|author4=University of Nebraska (Lincoln campus). Dept. of English|journal=Prairie Schooner|date=1957|issue=v. 31-32|publisher=University of Nebraska Press|issn=0032-6682|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qU4QAAAAIAAJ}} Kenyon Review,{{cite journal|title=The Kenyon Review|author1=Ransom, J.C.|author2=Kenyon College|journal=Kenyon Review, the|date=1961|issue=v. 23|publisher=Kenyon College|issn=0163-075X|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vh05AAAAMAAJ}}
Awards
- 1951 O. Henry Award
Works
=Novels=
- {{cite book| title=Thunder in the Room| publisher=MacMillan| year=1956 }}
- {{cite book| title=The Key to My Prison | publisher=Dial Press| year=1965 }}
- {{cite book| title=Carrie Dumain | publisher=H. Regnery Co.| year=1966 }}
=Short fiction=
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| Title | Publication | Collected in |
|---|---|---|
| "Mr. Todd" | The Antioch Review (Winter 1948) | - |
| "A Way of Resentment" | Epoch (Fall 1948) | - |
| "The Harmless Story" | Prairie Schooner (Fall 1949) | - |
| "The Mulhausen Girls" | Virginia Quarterly Review (Winter 1949) | Prize Stories of 1949 |
| "Caught" | Accent: A Quarterly of New Literature (Spring 1950) | - |
| "The Hunters" | Epoch (Summer 1950) | Best American Short Stories 1951 |
| "Night Side" | The Antioch Review (Spring 1952) | - |
| "Crispin's Way" | Epoch (Fall 1952) | Best American Short Stories 1953 |
| "The Clown" | Epoch (Fall 1954) | - |
| "The Hobo" | Virginia Quarterly Review (Autumn 1955) | Best American Short Stories 1956 |
| "The Song" | Prairie Schooner (Fall 1956) | - |
| "The Actress" | Prairie Schooner (Spring 1957) | - |
| "The Dance in the Attic" | Epoch (Winter 1957) | - |
| "The Rifle" | Southwest Review (Summer 1959) | - |
| "The Hand and Head of Molly Glass" | The Kenyon Review (Spring 1961) | - |
| "Grandfather, We Hear You!" | Epoch (Fall 1961) | - |
| "The Vicar-General and the Wide Night" | The Southern Review (Winter 1965) | Best American Short Stories 1965 |
| "The Cuckoo's Nest" | The Southern Review (Summer 1966) | - |
| "Polly" | The Southern Review (Spring 1968) | - |
| "Portrait of a Professor" | The Southern Review (Summer 1970) | - |
| "Silversleeve's Love Affair" | The Southern Review (Summer 1972) | - |
| "A Religious Happening" | Michigan Quarterly Review (Summer 1973) | - |
References
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