Larry Brown (writer)

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William Larry Brown (born July 9, 1951 in Oxford (Mississippi) ; died November 24, 2004 there ) was an American writer .

Life

Larry Brown attended the University of Mississippi without a degree . He worked in various activities and was a soldier in the Marine Corps from 1970 to 1972 . Brown married Mary Annie Brown and they have three children. From 1973 to 1990 he worked as a firefighter at the Oxford Mississippi Fire Department, after which he worked as a freelance writer.

Brown published his first of two volumes of short stories in 1988. He wrote five novels, the novel A Miracle of Catfish was published posthumously in 2007 as the sixth. The short story Big Bad Love was the basis for a film of the same name. Brown received the Southern Book Critics Circle Award twice. The novel Joe was filmed by David Gordon Green in 2013 , the German title was Joe - Die Rache ist sein .

Works

  • Facing the music . Short stories. 1988
  • Dirty work . Novel. 1989
  • Big Bad Love . Short stories. 1990
  • Joe . Novel. 1991
    • Joe . Translation Thomas Gunkel. Munich: Wilhelm Heyne, 2018
  • On fire . Autobiography. 1993
  • Father and Son . Novel. 1996
  • Fay . Novel. 2000
    • Fay . Translation Thomas Gunkel. Munich: Wilhelm Heyne, 2017
  • Billy Ray's Farm: Essays from a Place Called Tula . Essays. 2001
  • The Rabbit Factory . Novel. 2003
  • A Miracle of Catfish . Novel. 2007 posthumously

literature

  • Gary Hawkins: The Rough South of Larry Brown . Documentary, 2002
  • Jonathan Fischer: He only needs a whiskey-cola , review by Joe , in: SZ, January 9, 2019, p. 12
  • Jay Watson: Conversations with Larry Brown . Jackson, miss. : University Press of Mississippi, 2007 ISBN 1-57806-949-1

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personal data
SURNAME Brown, Larry
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brown, William Larry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer
DATE OF BIRTH July 9, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Oxford (Mississippi)
DATE OF DEATH November 24, 2004
Place of death Oxford (Mississippi)