Barry Hannah

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[?], and the University of Mississippi.

Barry Hannah resides in Oxford, Mississippi, and is director of the M.F.A program at the University of 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 (2000)