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Barry Hannah

Born

in Meridian, Mississippi, The United States

April 23, 1942

Died

March 01, 2010

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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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	Airships 4.02 avg rating — 3,167 ratings — published 1978 — 25 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ray 3.86 avg rating — 1,574 ratings — published 1980 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Geronimo Rex 3.89 avg rating — 837 ratings — published 1972 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Yonder Stands Your Orphan 3.52 avg rating — 658 ratings — published 2001 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	High Lonesome 4.04 avg rating — 478 ratings — published 1996 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Long, Last, Happy: New and Collected Stories 4.10 avg rating — 453 ratings — published 2010 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bats Out of Hell 4.08 avg rating — 445 ratings — published 1978 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Tennis Handsome 3.94 avg rating — 248 ratings — published 1983 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Captain Maximus 3.76 avg rating — 213 ratings — published 1985 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hey Jack! 3.72 avg rating — 144 ratings — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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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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What shall we read in March, 2025? Books published in or before 1990.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain

21 votes 36.2%

Sweet Bird of Youth, by Tennessee Williams

13 votes 22.4%

The Fugitive Poets: Modern Southern Poetry in Perspective, by William Pratt

7 votes 12.1%

Blood and Grits, by Harry Crews

6 votes 10.3%

Airships, by Barry Hannah

4 votes 6.9%

The Collected Breece D'J Pancake: Stories, Fragments, Letters

4 votes 6.9%

Around the World on a Bicycle, by Fred A. Birchmore

3 votes 5.2%

58 total votes

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