Barry Hannah

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born

April 23, 1942 in Meridian, Mississippi, The United States

died

March 01, 2010

gender

male

website

http://www.olemiss.edu/depts/english/ms-writers...

genre

Literature & Fiction, Short Stories, Historical Fiction

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Barry Hannah was an American novelist and short story writer from Mississippi. He was the author of eight novels and five short story collections. He worked with notable American editors and publishers such as Gordon Lish, Seymour Lawrence, and Morgan Entrekin. His work was published in Esquire, The New Yorker, The Oxford American, The Southern Review, and a host of American magazines and quarterlies. In his lifetime he was awarded the The Faulkner Prize (1972), The Bellaman Foundation Award in Fiction, The Arnold Gingrich Short Fiction Award, the PEN/Malamud Award (2003) and the Award for Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He was director of the MFA program at the University of Mississippi, in Oxford, where he taught...more

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Average rating: 4.08 · 2,602 ratings · 295 reviews · 23 distinct works

	Airships 4.25 avg rating — 847 ratings — published 1978 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Ray 4.16 avg rating — 419 ratings — published 1980 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Geronimo Rex 4.02 avg rating — 276 ratings — published 1972 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Bats Out of Hell 4.11 avg rating — 175 ratings — published 1993 — 3 editions	My rating:
	High Lonesome 4.11 avg rating — 168 ratings — published 1996 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Yonder Stands Your Orphan 3.57 avg rating — 216 ratings — published 2001 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Long, Last, Happy: New and Collected Stories 4.07 avg rating — 109 ratings — published 2010 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Tennis Handsome 3.88 avg rating — 99 ratings — published 1983 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Captain Maximus 4.08 avg rating — 89 ratings — published 1985 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Hey Jack! 3.72 avg rating — 46 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:

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“You've got to lie to stay halfway interested in yourself.”
― Barry Hannah

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“What a bog and labyrinth the human essence is... We are all overbrained and overemotioned.”
― Barry Hannah, Airships

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“The point is to strip down, get protestant, then even more naked. Walk over scorched bricks to find your own soul. Your heart a searching dog in the rubble.”
― Barry Hannah

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