Barry Hannah

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Born:
April 23, 1942
Died:
March 1, 2010

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Barry Hannah (April 23, 1942 – March 1, 2010) was an American novelist and short story writer from Mississippi. Hannah was born in Meridian, Mississippi, on April 23, 1942, and grew up in Clinton, Mississippi. He wrote eight novels and five short story collections.His first novel, Geronimo Rex (1972), was nominated for the National Book Award. Airships, his 1978 collection of short stories about the Vietnam War, the American Civil War, and the modern South, won the Arnold Gingrich Short Fiction Award. The following year, Hannah received the prestigious Award in Literature from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. Hannah won a Guggenheim, the Robert Penn Warren Lifetime Achievement Award, and the PEN/Malamud Award for excellence in the art of the short story.He was awarded the Fiction Prize of the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters twice and received Mississippi's prestigious Governor's Award in 1989 for distinguished representation of the state of Mississippi in artistic and cultural matters. For a brief time Hannah lived in Los Angeles and worked as a writer for the film director Robert Altman. He was director of the MFA program at the University of Mississippi, in Oxford, where he taught creative writing …

Books by Barry Hannah

Barry Hannah: Airships (1994, Grove Press) No rating

Airships

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Barry Hannah: Boomerang (1989, Houghton Mifflin/Seymour Lawrence) No rating

Boomerang

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Barry Hannah: Ray (1994)

Ray

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Barry Hannah: Captain Maximus (1986) No rating

Captain Maximus

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Barry Hannah: Hey Jack! (1987, Dutton) No rating

Hey Jack!

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Barry Hannah: Long, last, happy (2010, Grove Press, Distributed by Publishers Group West) No rating

Long, last, happy

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Barry Hannah: Yonder Stands Your Orphan (Paperback, 2003, Atlantic Books) No rating

Yonder Stands Your Orphan

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Barry Hannah: Geronimo Rex (1998, Grove Press)

Geronimo Rex

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Barry Hannah: High lonesome (1996, Atlantic Monthly Press) No rating

High lonesome

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Barry Hannah: Long, Last, Happy (Paperback, 2011, Grove Press) No rating

Long, Last, Happy

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Barry Hannah: Yonder stands your orphan (2001, Atlantic Monthly Press, Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated) No rating

Yonder stands your orphan

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Barry Hannah: Bats out of hell (1993, Houghton Mifflin/Seymour Lawrence) No rating

Bats out of hell

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