Larry Brown

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born

July 09, 1951 in Oxford, Mississippi, The United States

died

November 24, 2004

gender

male

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Literature & Fiction, Short Stories, Nonfiction

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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. Brown served in the United States Marine Corps from 1970 to 1972. On his return to Oxford, he worked at a small stove company before joining the city fire department. An avid reader, Brown began writing in his spare time while he worked as a firefighter in Oxford in 1980.

Brown was awarded the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters award f...more

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Average rating: 4.02 · 4,381 ratings · 420 reviews · 29 distinct works

	Big Bad Love 4.13 avg rating — 665 ratings — 4 editions	My rating:
	Father and Son 4.09 avg rating — 664 ratings — published 1996 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Fay 3.97 avg rating — 704 ratings — published 2000 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Joe 4.16 avg rating — 555 ratings — published 1980 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Dirty Work 4.08 avg rating — 460 ratings — published 1989 — 6 editions	My rating:
	The Rabbit Factory 3.48 avg rating — 413 ratings — published 2003 — 12 editions	My rating:
	Facing the Music 4.17 avg rating — 318 ratings — published 1984 — 5 editions	My rating:
	A Miracle of Catfish: A Novel in Progress 4.08 avg rating — 212 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:
	On Fire 4.02 avg rating — 203 ratings — published 1994 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Billy Ray's Farm: Essays from a Place Called Tula 3.91 avg rating — 159 ratings — published 2001 — 3 editions	My rating:

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Quotes by Larry Brown

“After a year of therapy, my psychiatrist said to me, "Maybe life isn't for everyone.”
― Larry Brown

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“Sunday just came down like a nine-pound hammer ... it was tainted with the closing-in feeling of the loss of freedom. Because after the sun went down, it came back up on Monday morning. And you had to go to work five more days. And it sucked.”
― Larry Brown, A Miracle of Catfish: A Novel in Progress

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“I didn't know why something that started off feeling so good had to wind up feeling so bad. Love was a big word and it covered a lot of territory. You could spend your whole life chasing after it and wind up with nothing, be an old bitter guy with long nose hair and ear hair and no teeth, hanging out in bars, looking for somebody your age, but the chances of success went down then. After a while you got too many strikes against you.”
― Larry Brown, Big Bad Love

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