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Donald Harington (1935- November 7th 2009 ) was an American author. All but the first of his novels (The Cherry Pit, 1965) either take place in or have an important connection to "Stay More," a fictional Ozark Mountains town based somewhat on Drakes Creek, Arkansas, where Harington spent summers as a child.

Harington was born and raised in Little Rock, Arkansas. He lost nearly all of his hearing at age 12 due to meningitis. This did not prevent him from picking up and remembering the vocabulary and modes of expression among the Ozark denizens, nor in conducting his teaching career as an adult.

Though he intended to be a novelist from a very early age, his course of study and his teaching career were in art and art history. He taught art history in New York, New England, and South Dakota before returning to the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, his alma mater, where he taught for 22 years before his retirement on 1 May 2008. He still lives in Fayetteville.

Harington's current and past novels are available from The Toby Press in a uniform edition, with cover illustrations by Wendell Minor.

Novels

Enduring, forthcoming
Farther Along, 2008
The Pitcher Shower, 2005
With, 2003
Thirteen Albatrosses (or, Falling off the Mountain), 2002
When Angels Rest, 1998
Butterfly Weed, 1996
Ekaterina, 1993
The Choiring of the Trees, 1991
The Cockroaches of Stay More, 1989
The Architecture of the Arkansas Ozarks, 1975
Some other Place. The Right Place., 1972
Lightning Bug, 1970
The Cherry Pit, 1965

Nonfiction

On a Clear Day: The Paintings of George Dombek, 1975-1994, 1995
Let Us Build Us a City: Eleven Lost Towns, 1986

Awards

Oxford American Lifetime Award for Contributions to Southern Literature, 2006
Robert Penn Warren Award for Fiction, 2003
Arkansas Writers Hall of Fame, 1996
Porter Prize for Literary Excellence, 1987

External links

Author-endorsed Website (not currently maintained)
Biography and interview by Edwin T. (Chip) Arnold
Biographical article at the Encyclopedia of Arkansas History and Culture
"America's Undiscovered Continent" — article on his life and work
"Wry Stories and Word Music" — article on themes, techniques, and cultural background

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	'''Donald Harington''' (1935- ) is an American [[author]]. All but the first of his novels (''The Cherry Pit'', 1965) either take place in or have an important connection to "Stay More," a fictional [[Ozark Mountains]] town based somewhat on Drakes Creek, Arkansas, where Harington spent summers as a child.		'''Donald Harington''' (1935- November 7th 2009 ) was an American [[author]]. All but the first of his novels (''The Cherry Pit'', 1965) either take place in or have an important connection to "Stay More," a fictional [[Ozark Mountains]] town based somewhat on Drakes Creek, Arkansas, where Harington spent summers as a child.

	Harington was born and raised in [[Little Rock, Arkansas]]. He lost nearly all of his hearing at age 12 due to [[meningitis]]. This did not prevent him from picking up and remembering the vocabulary and modes of expression among the Ozark denizens, nor in conducting his teaching career as an adult.		Harington was born and raised in [[Little Rock, Arkansas]]. He lost nearly all of his hearing at age 12 due to [[meningitis]]. This did not prevent him from picking up and remembering the vocabulary and modes of expression among the Ozark denizens, nor in conducting his teaching career as an adult.