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Donald Harington

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in Little Rock, AR, The United States

December 22, 1935

Died

November 07, 2009

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Donald Douglas Harington was an American author. All but the first of his novels 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 Dak ...more

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Average rating: 3.97 · 4,658 ratings · 599 reviews · 40 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Architecture of the Arkansas Ozarks 3.90 avg rating — 984 ratings — published 1975 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Choiring of the Trees 4.22 avg rating — 672 ratings — published 1991 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	With 4.22 avg rating — 485 ratings — published 2003 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lightning Bug 3.85 avg rating — 518 ratings — published 1970 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Some Other Place. The Right Place. really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 291 ratings — published 1972 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cockroaches of Stay More 4.08 avg rating — 280 ratings — published 1989 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Butterfly Weed: A Novel 3.91 avg rating — 222 ratings — published 1996 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ekaterina 3.87 avg rating — 159 ratings — published 1993 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Enduring 4.08 avg rating — 141 ratings — published 2009 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Let Us Build Us a City: Eleven Lost Towns 3.85 avg rating — 146 ratings — published 1986 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Stay More (13 books)
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“If you are destined to become a writer, you can't help it. If you can help it, you aren't destined to become a writer. The frustrations and disappointments, not even to mention the unspeakable loneliness, are too unbearable for anyone who doesn't have a deep sense of being unable to avoid writing.”
― Donald Harington

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“Words themselves are all the ghosts we need.”
― Donald Harington, Ekaterina

tags: donald-harinton, ghosts, language, words, writing

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“This here will be the future tense and you will be able to do anything you will like in it.”
― Donald Harington, With

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What shall we read in February, 2021? Books published in or before 1980.

A Place on Earth, by Wendell Berry

18 votes 40.0%

The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty

8 votes 17.8%

Summer of My German Soldier, by Bette Greene

7 votes 15.6%

The Ways of White Folks, by Langston Hughes

7 votes 15.6%

The Architecture of the Arkansas Ozarks, by Donald Harington

5 votes 11.1%

45 total votes

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