Mountains of the Moon [1990 film]

William Harrison was born in Dallas, Texas on October 29, 1933. He graduated from Texas Christian and Vanderbilt Universities and attended the Iowa Writers' Workshop in 1961, where he published his first short story. He founded the creative writing graduate program at the University of Arkansas in 1965 with the writer James T. Whitehead and taught show more there until he retired in 1998. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1973. During his lifetime, he wrote dozens of short stories and nine novels. His works include Roller Ball Murder, which was adapted by him into a film entitled Rollerball, Burton and Speke, which was adapted by him into a film entitled Mountains of the Moon, and Black August. He died from renal failure on October 22, 2013 at the age of 79. (Bowker Author Biography) show less