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William Larry Brown (July 9, 1951 – November 24, 2004) was an American novelist, non-fiction and short story writer. He won numerous awards, including the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters award for fiction, the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Award, and Mississippi's Governor's Award For Excellence in the Arts.
Dec 2, 2019 · Larry Brown wrote about human frailties. He wrote about people whose lives have come to feel stunted, or unmoored, and who find themselves unable or unwilling to resist perilous impulses: for sex, for alcohol, for violence, for numbness, for the kind of crazed love that doubles as a wrecking ball, even for art.
Nov 26, 2004 · Larry Brown, a writer whose spare stories bluntly conveyed the painful hope of the rural poor, died on Wednesday at his home near Oxford, Miss. He was 53. The coroner of Lafayette County,...
Nov 24, 2004 · Larry Brown was an American writer who was born and lived in Oxford, Mississippi. Brown wrote fiction and nonfiction. He graduated from high school in Oxford but did not go to college. Many years later, he took a creative writing class from the Mississippi novelist Ellen Douglas.
Larry Brown, a well-known author of short stories and novels, was born in Oxford, Mississippi, on July 9, 1951, to Leona Barlow Brown, a postmaster and store owner and Knox Brown, a sharecropper and World War II veteran. Both of his parents influenced his writings.
Nov 25, 2004 · Larry Brown, a critically praised writer of Southern fiction who used plain language to tell complex stories about ordinary people in crisis, died Wednesday of an apparent heart attack at his...
Larry Brown has 81 books on Goodreads with 43845 ratings. Larry Brown’s most popular book is Joe.
Nov 26, 2019 · “Tiny Love: The Complete Stories of Larry Brown” collects tales of hardscrabble lives, as captured by the Mississippi writer who died in 2004, at the age of 53.
Jun 1, 2017 · This 1994 firefighting memoir, by the Southern writer Larry Brown, vividly captures both fear and the sort of pride that comes with mastery.
Dec 1, 2004 · Novelist who drew inspiration from his years as a firefighter. Christopher Hawtree. Wed 1 Dec 2004 04.52 EST. The vogue for dirty realism in fiction brought much which now seems merely grimy, so it...
