Larry Brown : A Writer's Life /

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Larry Brown was unique among writers who started their careers in the late twentieth century. Unlike most of them - his friends Clyde Edgerton, Jill McCorkle, Rick Bass, Kaye Gibbons, among others - he was neither a product of a writing programme, nor did he teach at one. In fact, he did not even at...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cash, Jean W., 1938-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2011.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Brown, Larry, > 1951-2004.
Authors, American.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
Écrivains americains > 20e siecle > Biographies.
Authors, American > 20th century > Biography.
Biographies.
Biography
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Origins, 1951-1969
  • Marine, husband, father, and fireman, 1969-1980
  • Literary apprenticeship, 1980-1987
  • Facing the music, 1987-1989
  • Dirty work: a Vietnam novel, 1989-1990
  • Full-time writer: Big Bad Love, 1990
  • Joe: a major novel, 1991
  • "Fire notes" becomes On Fire, 1994-1996
  • Solid success: Father and Son, 1994-1996
  • Continued success: Fay in progress and a semester at Ole Miss, 1997-1998
  • Years of triumph: Fay, the Wallace Award, and Montana, 1999-2000
  • A return to nonfiction: Billy Ray's Farm, 1999-2001
  • Leaving Algonquin: The Rabbit Factory, 2002-2003
  • Writing and building, 2004
  • Remembering Larry and A Miracle of Catfish, 2004-2007.

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