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"A man's got to do what a man's got to do. A woman must do what he can't." -- Barry Hannah
Howard Barry Hannah (April 23, 1942 – March 1, 2010) was an American novelist and short story writer from Mississippi.The author of eight novels and five short story collections (some sites list it as nine novels and four short story collections), Hannah worked with notable American editors and publishers such as Gordon Lish, Seymour Lawrence, and Morgan Entrekin. His work was published in Esquire, The New Yorker, The Oxford American, Southern Review, and a host of American magazines and quarterlies.

His first novel, Geronimo Rex (1972), won the William Faulkner Prize and was nominated for the National Book Award. Airships, his 1978 collection of short stories about the Vietnam War, the Civil War, and the modern South, won the Arnold Gingrich Short Fiction Award. The following year, Hannah received the prestigious Award in Literature from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. Hannah won a Guggenheim, the Robert Penn Warren Lifetime Achievement Award, and the PEN/Malamud Award for excellence in the art of the short story.

He was awarded the Fiction Prize of the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters twice and received Mississippi's prestigious Governor's Award in 1989 for distinguished representation of the state of Mississippi in artistic and cultural matters. For a brief time in 1980, Hannah lived in Los Angeles and worked as a writer for the film director Robert Altman. He was director of the MFA program at the University of Mississippi, in Oxford, where he taught creative writing for 28 years. He died on March 1, 2010, of natural causes.

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Total Books: 42
Long Last Happy New and Collected Stories
2011 - Long Last Happy New and Collected Stories (Paperback)Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780802145505
ISBN-10: 0802145507
Genre: Literature & Fiction
  • Currently 4/5 Stars.
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Yonder Stands Your Orphan
2003 - Yonder Stands Your Orphan (Paperback)Paperback, Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9781843540069
ISBN-10: 1843540061
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Gegenber dem Himmel
2003 - Gegenber Dem Himmel (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9783351029739
ISBN-10: 335102973X
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Geronimo Rex
1998 - Geronimo Rex (Paperback)Paperback, Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780802135698
ISBN-10: 0802135692
Genre: Literature & Fiction
  • Currently 4.8/5 Stars.
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High Lonesome
1997 - High Lonesome (Paperback)Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780802135322
ISBN-10: 0802135323
Genre: Literature & Fiction
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The Tennis Handsome
1995 - The Tennis Handsome [Voices of the South S.] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780807120088
ISBN-10: 0807120081
Genre: Literature & Fiction
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Boomerang/Never Die Two Novels
1994 - Boomerang/never Die Two Novels [Banner Books] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780878057023
ISBN-10: 0878057021
Genre: Literature & Fiction
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Bats Out of Hell
1994 - Bats Out of Hell (Paperback)Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780802133861
ISBN-10: 080213386X
Genre: Literature & Fiction
  • Currently 2/5 Stars.
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Ray
1994 - Ray (Paperback)Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780802133878
ISBN-10: 0802133878
Genre: Literature & Fiction
  • Currently 3.5/5 Stars.
 3

Airships
1994 - Airships (Paperback)Paperback, Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780802133885
ISBN-10: 0802133886
Genre: Literature & Fiction
  • Currently 3/5 Stars.
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Airships / Ray
1991 - Airships / Ray (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780099748700
ISBN-10: 0099748703
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Hey Jack
1988 - Hey Jack (Paperback)Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780140111859
ISBN-10: 0140111859
Genre: Literature & Fiction
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Captain Maximus
1986 - Captain Maximus (Paperback)Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780140088113
ISBN-10: 0140088113
Genre: Literature & Fiction
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NightWatchmen
1973 - Nightwatchmen (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9780670512232
ISBN-10: 0670512230
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Boomerang
Boomerang (Hardcover)Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780395488829
ISBN-10: 0395488826
Genre: Literature & Fiction
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Never Die
Never Die (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9780395515600
ISBN-10: 0395515602
Genre: Literature & Fiction
  • Currently 3/5 Stars.
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The Tennis Handsome A Novel
The Tennis Handsome a Novel [Scribner Signature Edition] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780684188119
ISBN-10: 0684188112
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Power and Light
Power and Light (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9780913773048
ISBN-10: 0913773042
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La tete a l'envers
La Tete a L'envers [French Edition] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9782070735549
ISBN-10: 2070735540
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