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Howard Barry Hannah (born April 23, 1942 in Meridian, Mississippi – died March 1, 2010 in Oxford, Mississippi) was the author of eight novels and five short story collections and directed the Master of Fine Arts program at the University of Mississippi. Hannah grew up in Clinton, Mississippi and enrolled at Mississippi College there in a pre-medical course before switching his focus to literature. He completed his bachelor of arts in 1964 and went on to complete a master of arts and a master of fine arts at the University of Arkansas. While there he published his first story in a national anthology of college writing and completed the story that convinced him, personally, of his abilities: "Mother Rooney Unscrolls the Hurt," which became part of his first novel Geronimo Rex . Contents. Writing. Published in 1972, Geronimo Rex won the William Faulkner Prize and was nominated for a National Book Award. After a relatively poorly- received second novel, Nightwatchmen , he returned to the short story form and won the support of Esquire fiction editor Gordon Lish. A compilation of Hannah's stories was published under the title Airships in 1978. He followed that with the short novel Ray (1980) which was set in Tuscaloosa and bolstered his reputation as an important author. Hannah's 1993 short story collection, Bats Out of Hell was followed in 1996 by another collection High Lonesome that earned him a Pulitzer Prize nomination. He was diagnosed with non-Hodgekin's lymphoma and underwent treatment in the late 1990s. His next novel, Yonder Stands Your Orphan came out in 2001 and featured many characters that had been introduced in earlier stories. Excerpts from a follow-up novel, given various titles, were published in various magazines from 2003 to 2009. In an interview that year, Hannah told Tom Franklin that the book was being re-cast as a series of short stories. Teaching. Hannah taught at Clemson University while he was writing Geronimo Rex . He helped to create the Master of Fine Arts program in writing at the University of Alabama during the 1970s, leaving in 1980. For 28 years, Hannah taught creative writing at the University of Mississippi and became the director of the school's MFA program. While there he mentored numerous authors including Larry Brown, Cynthia Shearer and Donna Tartt. He also taught at the Iowa Writer's Workshop, Middlebury College, Texas State University, the University of Memphis, and the University of Montana in Missoula. He also led workshops and participated in writing seminars at numerous other institutions, including the University of the South and Bennington College. Honors. In addition to the Faulkner Award for his first novel, Hannah has received the Award in Literature from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, the Robert Penn Warren Lifetime Achievement Award, and the PEN/Malamud Award for excellence in the art of the short story. He was twice awarded the Fiction Prize of the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters and received a Governor's Award from Mississippi Governor for distinguished representation of the state in artistic and cultural matters. Hannah died on March 1, 2010, just days before the annual Oxford Conference for the Book during which he and his works were the central focus. He was survived by his wife and three children. Barry Hannah Biography. Nationality: American. Born: Meridian, Mississippi, 1942. Education: Mississippi College, Clinton, B.A. 1964; University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, M.A. 1966, M.F.A. 1967. Career: Member of the Department of English, Clemson University, South Carolina, 1967-73; writer-in- residence, Middlebury College, Vermont, 1974-75; member of the Department of English, University of Alabama, University, 1975-80; writer for the director Robert Altman, Hollywood, 1980; writer-in-residence, University of Iowa, Iowa City, 1981, University of Mississippi, Oxford, 1982, 1984, 1985, and University of Montana, Missoula, 1982-83. Awards: Bellaman Foundation award, 1970; Bread Loaf Writers Conference Atherton fellowship, 1971; Gingrich award ( Esquire ), 1978; American Academy award, 1979; Award in Fiction, Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters, 1994. P UBLICATIONS. Novels. Geronimo Rex. New York, Viking Press, 1972. Nightwatchmen. New York, Viking Press, 1973. Ray. New York, Knopf, 1980; London, Penguin, 1981. The Tennis Handsome. New York, Knopf, 1983. Power and Light. Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Palaemon Press, 1983. Hey Jack! New York, Dutton, 1987. Boomerang. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1989. Never Die. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1991. High Lonesome. New York, Atlantic Monthly Press, 1996. Short Stories. Airships. New York, Knopf, 1978; London, Vintage, 1991. Two Stories. Jackson, Mississippi, Nouveau Press, 1982. Black Butterfly. Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Palaemon Press, 1982. Captain Maximus. New York, Knopf, 1985. Bats Out of Hell. Boston, Houghton Mifflin/Seymour Lawrence, 1993. Uncollected Short Stories. "Sources Agree Rock Swoon Has No Past," in Harper's (NewYork), June 1986. Other. In Honor of Oxford at One Hundred and Fifty. Grenada, Mississippi, Salt-works, 1987. Critical Studies: Barry Hannah by Mark J. Charney, New York, Twayne, 1992; Barry Hannah: Postmodern Romantic. Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press, 1998. Barry Hannah's favored form is the monologue, his subject matter the grotesqueries of American life. Hannah's work includes incidents of beheading, a car wreck in the upper branches of an oak tree, a man who saves himself from drowning by balancing on the tip of a car aerial, a walrus's sexual attack on a woman who is having an affair with her nephew, and a drowned man who jump starts himself using a bus battery. "But that's farfetched, and worse than that, poetic, requiring a willing suspension of disbelief along with a willing desire to eat piles of air sausage," complains a character in Nightwatchmen while trying to make sense of a senseless death. A reader must bring along this willingness when reading Hannah. Geronimo Rex , Hannah's first novel, is a long song of remembrance, an ode to southern adolescence, his discoveries of music and women and firearms and, perhaps most importantly, the extra spark style can give to life. Style is very important to Hannah's characters; this and endurance are the virtues they admire and aspire to. Style is also a large element in Hannah's writing: in Geronimo Rex impressionistic sentences that at first seem a beginning writer's excesses grate against the coming-of-age context, stylize the bar-stool braggart tone of voice: "I felt very precise in the oily seat; I was a pistol leaking music out of its holster." Far from being excesses the mature Hannah would weed out, sentences such as these (what Thomas McGuane admiringly referred to as Hannah's "moon-landing English") come to dominate the later works, from Airships on. In the stories collected in Airships much of the traditional connective tissue of setting and exterior atmosphere is absent, leaving us with thick, nervous monologues by emotionally damaged men and women with a lot of style.
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