Joyce Harrington began working as the late Jim Harrison’s aide-de-camp in 1979 following a handshake in the granary and writing studio behind the author’s house in Lake Leelanau. She was his literary assistant, business manager, and guardian, freeing Harrison to lead a prolific, international writer’s life that would produce hundreds of poems, novels, essays and screenplays. Efforts are underway to keep Harrison’s work alive and to share it with a new generation of readers, poets and writers—across the United States and the world.