Donald Harington, 73
The historian as novelist, the Arkansan as writer
Posted: November 10, 2009 at 3:48 a.m.
“There must be no endings!” —Donald Harington January 26, 1991 A STATE isn’t just a geographical designation. It’s a shared language and history. And how it perceives itself. That perception requires someone to shape it. For many of us, Donald Harington, the art professor at Fayetteville, was that someone. That was his great service to his native state and particularly the part of it he deeply absorbed as a Little Rock boy who spent the summers in the Ozarks. His novels form a core consciousness of the Arkansan, whatever that strange hybrid creature is.
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Editorial, Pages 12 on 11/10/2009
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