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Donald Heiney (/ˈhaɪni/; September 7, 1921 – July 24, 1993) was a sailor and academic as well as a prolific and inventive writer using the pseudonym of MacDonald Harris for fiction.

Biography

Heiney was born in

Hillis Miller
.

Publishers Weekly has described his work as "known for...metaphysics, hints of magic and the absurd, and a profound preoccupation with the duality of human nature,"[citation needed] and the Chicago Tribune Book World called him "a gifted craftsman, a meticulous writer whose powers as a story teller are as compelling as the sexual tensions he imagines."[citation needed]

His novel The Balloonist, published in 1976 by

S. A. Andrée. The Balloonist was nominated for the National Book Award in 1977. It was reissued in 2011 by the UK publisher Galileo[2] and in 2012 in the United States by The Overlook Press, with a foreword by Philip Pullman and positive reviews from The Guardian, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post.[3][4][5] The Overlook Press also published his previously-unpublished novel The Carp Castle in 2013,[6] and reissued his novel Screenplay (1982) in 2014, reviewed as "the mature work of a writer whose ability to juggle multi-layered concepts seems effortless."[7] The reissued Screenplay was also positively reviewed by OC Weekly and Kirkus Reviews.[8][9]

He received a 1982 Award in Literature from the

PEN Los Angeles Center.[1]

Heiney died in 1993, at age 71, at his home in Newport Beach, California.[1]

Bibliography

Fiction by MacDonald Harris:[11]

  • 1961 Private Demons. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co.
  • 1964 Mortal Leap. New York: W. W. Norton & Co. Also London: Michael Joseph Ltd, 1965.
  • 1968 Trepleff. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd. Also New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1969.
  • 1973 Bull Fire. New York: Random House. Also London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1973.
  • 1976 The Balloonist. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Inc. Also London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1977.
  • 1977 Yukiko. New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux, Inc. Also London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1978.
  • 1979 Pandora's Galley. New York: Harcourt Brace & Jovanovich, Inc. Also London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1979.
  • 1980 The Treasure of Sainte Foy. New York: Atheneum Publishers. Also London, Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1980.
  • 1981 Herma. New York: Atheneum Publishers. Also London: Jonathan Cape, 1983.
  • 1982 Screenplay. New York: Atheneum Publishers. Also London: Jonathan Cape, 1983.
  • 1984 Tenth. New York: Atheneum Publishers.
  • 1986 The Little People. New York: William Morrow & Co., Inc.
  • 1987 Glowstone. New York: William Morrow & Co., Inc.
  • 1988 The Cathay Stories and other Fictions. (Short Story Collection). Santa Cruz: Story Line Press.
  • 1990 Hemingway's Suitcase. New York: Simon & Schuster.
  • 1991 Glad Rags. Brownsville, Oregon: Story Line Press.
  • 1993 Portrait of My Desire. New York: Simon & Schuster.
  • 2012 The Carp Castle. Cambridge UK: Galileo Publishers. Paperback. Also New York: Overlook Press, 2013 Hardback.

References

  1. ^ a b c McLellan, Dennis (August 1, 1993). "Donald Heiney; Author and Founder of UCI Writing Program (obituary)". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved June 14, 2010.
  2. ^ "1977: The Balloonist, by MacDonald Harris". National Book Foundation. Retrieved January 11, 2013.
  3. ^ Chris Ross (November 8, 2011). "The Balloonist by MacDonald Harris - review". The Guardian. Retrieved January 11, 2013.
  4. ^ Karin Altenberg (October 26, 2012). "Floating Into the Abyss". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved January 11, 2013.
  5. ^ Michael Dirda (January 9, 2012). "Book review: 'The Balloonist' by MacDonald Harris". The Washington Post. Retrieved January 11, 2013.
  6. ^ "The Carp Castle". Kirkus. Kirkus. March 30, 2013. Retrieved December 4, 2013.
  7. ^ Menzies, David (December 2, 2014). "In books: 'Screenplay' hops into alternate, black-and-white film world". The Jersey Journal. Retrieved December 4, 2014.
  8. ^ Andrew Tonkovich (December 22, 2014). "MacDonald Harris and the Mortality, Immortality of Illusion". OC Weekly. Retrieved December 21, 2014.
  9. ^ "Screenplay". Kirkus. Kirkus. October 23, 2014. Retrieved December 21, 2014.
  10. ^ William Grimes (July 27, 1993). "MacDonald Harris Is Dead at 71; Novelist and Literature Professor". New York Times. Retrieved January 11, 2013.
  11. ^ University of Pennsylvania Department of Physics & Astronomy. "MacDonald Harris/Donald Heiney Publications". Retrieved April 11, 2014.

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