Kathryn harrison biography

American author (born 1961)

For the leader of the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community of Oregon, see Kathryn Jones Harrison.

Kathryn Harrison (born March 20, 1961, in Los Angeles, California) is an American author.

She has published seven novels, two memoirs, two collections of personal essays, a travelogue, two biographies, and a book of true crime. She reviews regularly for The New York Times Book Review.

Kathryn harrison biography

Her personal essays have been included in many anthologies and have appeared in Bookforum, Harper's Magazine, More Magazine, The New Yorker, O, The Oprah Magazine, and Vogue, Salon, and Nerve.

Background and education

Harrison's maternal grandparents raised her in Los Angeles, California, after her teenage parents separated when she was a baby. She graduated from Stanford University in 1982 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and Art History; she received a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Iowa in