
Barry Hannah, 1942-2010

Word quickly spread this afternoon that Barry Hannah died today of “natural causes” at the age of 67 in Oxford, Mississippi, where he was the chair of the writing department at Ole Miss and where the 17th Annual Oxford Conference for the Book , already dedicated to him this year, is to begin on Thursday. Hannah was a titan many have not heard about, undeniably tied to the South and to what people who really like writing call “the sentence.” Like Grace Paley, or some of his Southern peers like Padgett Powell or Harry Crews, he wrote with a voice that was so full of life and invention that, reading it, you are filled with the desire to write yourself…
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