Barry Hannah
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Barry Hannah, author of novels and short stories, was born in 1942 in Clinton, Mississippi. He earned a Bachelor of Arts from Mississippi College in 1964. He spent the next three years at the University of Arkansas where he earned a Master of Arts in 1966 and the Master of Fine Arts in 1967.
Hannah’s first novel, Geromino Rex, won the William Faulkner Prize and was nominated for the National Book Award. Other honors include the Bellaman Foundation Award in Fiction, the Arnold Gingrich Short Fiction Award, and the Award for Literature from the American Institute of Arts and Letters. The short story collection High Lonesome was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in fiction.
Hannah has taught creative writing at Clemson University, Middlebury College, the University of Alabama, the University of Memphis,and the University of Mississippi, where he is the director of the MFA program in creative writing for prose fiction.
Barry Hannah resides in Oxford, Mississippi.
Works:
- Geronimo Rex (1976)
- Nightwatchmen (1976)
- Airships (1978)
- Ray (1980)
- The Tennis Handsome (1983)
- Captain Maximus (1985)
- Hey Jack! (1987)
- Boomerang (1989)
- Never Die (1991)
- Bats out of Hell (1993)
- High Lonesome (1996)
- Yonder Stands Your Orphan (2001)