{"id":1300,"date":"2011-11-10T12:44:04","date_gmt":"2011-11-10T19:44:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1300"},"modified":"2018-10-24T12:37:09","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T19:37:09","slug":"hannah-barry-1942","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1300","title":{"rendered":"HANNAH, BARRY, 1942-2010"},"content":{"rendered":"

Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Writer, teacher of writing. Born– April 23, 1942, in Meridian, Miss. Parents– William and Elizabeth (King) Hannah. Married–Susan Varas.\u00a0\u00a0Children–three.\u00a0Education– Mississippi College, B.A., 1964; University of Arkansas, M.A., 1966; M.F.A., 1967. Taught at Clemson University, 1967-1973; writer-in-residence, Middlebury College, 1974-75; University of Alabama, 1975-1980. Writer for the filmmaker, Robert Altman, Hollywood, 1980; writer-in-residence, University of Iowa, 1981; University of Mississippi, 1982; University of Montana, 1982-1983. Director of the Master of Fine Arts Program, University of Mississippi, 1987-2010. \u00a0Received many awards for his work, including\u00a0 a fiction award from Bellaman Foundation, 1970; Breadloaf Fellowship, 1971; novel, Geronimo Rex, nomination for National Book Award, 1972; Arnold Gingrich Award from Esquire for Airships, 1978; special award from American Academy of Arts and Letters, 1978; Pulitizer Prize for Fiction, 1996; PEN\/Malamud Award for excellence in short fiction, 2003. Died March 1, 2010.<\/p>\n

Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Contemporary Authors online; Mississippi Writers website; obituary<\/p>\n

Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n

Airships. New York; Knopf, 1978.<\/p>\n

Bats Out of Hell. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1993.<\/p>\n

Black Butterfly.\u00a0 Winston-Salem:\u00a0 Palaemon Press, 1982..<\/p>\n

Boomerang. Boston; Houghton Mifflin, 1989.<\/p>\n

Captain Maximus; Stories. New York; Knopf, 1985.<\/p>\n

Geronimo Rex. New York; Knopf, 1985.<\/p>\n

Hey Jack! New York: Dutton, 1987.<\/p>\n

High Lonesome. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1996.<\/p>\n

Long, Last, Happy.\u00a0 New York; Grove Press, 2010.<\/p>\n

Never Die. Boston; Houghton Mifflin, 1991.<\/p>\n

Nightwatchman. New York; Viking, 1973.<\/p>\n

Power and Light. Winston Salem, N.C.; Palaeman Press, 1983.<\/p>\n

Ray. New York; Knopf, 1981.<\/p>\n

The Tennis Handsome. New York; Knopf, 1983.<\/p>\n

Two Stories.\u00a0 Jackson, MS; Nouveau Press, 1982.<\/p>\n

Yonder Stands Your Orphan. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2001.<\/p>\n

Contributor; <\/strong><\/p>\n

Men without Ties.\u00a0 New York; Abbeville Press, 1995.<\/p>\n

Papers;<\/strong><\/p>\n

A collection of the papers of Barry Hannah, including correspondence and manuscripts, is held by the Library of the University of Mississippi in Oxford.<\/p>\n

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