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Biography

Hannah was born in Alabama and raised in Clinton,Mississippi. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Mississippi College in 1964. He spent the next three years at the University of Arkansas, where he earned a Master of Arts in 1966 and a Master of Fine Arts in 1967. Bachelor of Arts (B.A., BA or A.B.), from the Latin Artium Baccalaureus is an undergraduate bachelors degree awarded for either a course or a program in the liberal arts or the sciences, or both. ... Mississippi College is a predominantly Baptist college located in Clinton, Mississippi. ... The University of Arkansas known also as the U of A or UA, is a public co-educational land-grant university. ... A Master of Arts is a postgraduate academic masters degree awarded by universities in North America and the United Kingdom (excluding the ancient universities of Scotland and Oxbridge. ... A Master of Fine Arts (MFA) is a graduate degree in an area of applied or performing arts typically requiring two to three years of study beyond the bachelor level. ...

Hannah's first novel, the grotesque coming-of-age tale Geronimo Rex (1972), won the William Faulkner Prize and was nominated for the National Book Award. Nightwatchmen (1973), his second novel, was a flop, and it is his only work never reissued in paperback. Hannah returned to form, however, with the short-story collection Airships (1978), which today is considered a classic. The short novel Ray (1980) was a critical success and a minor breakthrough for Hannah, and it is still considered one of his best novels. After the grotesque Western pastiche Never Die (1991), Hannah stuck to the short story form for the rest of the decade, first with Bats Out of Hell (1993) and then with High Lonesome (1996). After a near-fatal bout with non-Hodgkin lymphoma, Hannah returned in 2001 with Yonder Stands Your Orphan (the title is taken from Bob Dylan's song "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue"), his longest novel since Geronimo Rex. A bildungsroman (IPA: /, German: novel of education or novel of formation) is a novel which traces the spiritual, moral, psychological, or social development and growth of the main character from (usually) childhood to maturity. ... William Cuthbert Faulkner (September 25, 1897 – July 6, 1962) was an American novelist and poet whose works feature his native state of Mississippi. ... The National Book Award is one of the most important literary prizes in the United States, presented annually for the best books by living U.S. citizens published in the U.S. The awards have been presented since 1950 in at least one category, and are presently awarded in each... i like western films The Western is an American genre in literature and film. ... Non-Hodgkin lymphoma is a cancer arising from lymphocytes, a type of white blood cells. ... Robert Allen Zimmerman (born May 24, 1941), better known by his stage name Bob Dylan, is an American singer-songwriter, author, musician, and poet who has been a major figure in popular music for five decades. ...

Hannah is currently working on his next novel. In a 2003 interview with the Austin Chronicle, Hannah declared the novel to be called Last Days. However, a 2005 interview with Hannah in The Paris Review features a manuscript page from Hannah's forthcoming novel, now titled Long, Last, Happy. No date has been set for the publication of that novel. The Austin Chronicle is an alternative weekly newspaper published every Thursday in Austin, Texas, United States. ... The Paris Review is a literary magazine started in 1953 by Peter Matthiessen, Thomas H. Guinzburg, and Harold L. Humes, and edited until his death in 2003 by George Plimpton. ...

Hannah has taught creative writing at Clemson University, Middlebury College, the University of Alabama, Texas State University, and the University of Memphis. As of 2006 he resides in Oxford, Mississippi, where he is the director of the MFA program in creative writing for prose fiction at the University of Mississippi. Clemson University is a public, coeducational, land-grant research university located in Clemson, South Carolina. ... Middlebury College is a small liberal arts college located in the rural New England shire town of Middlebury, Vermont, United States. ... The University of Alabama (also known as Alabama, UA or colloquially as Bama) is a public coeducational university located in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA. Founded in 1831, UA is the flagship campus of the University of Alabama System. ... ... The University of Memphis is a public American research university located in Memphis, Tennessee, USA. The University was founded under the auspices of the General Education Bill, enacted by the Tennessee Legislature in 1909. ... 2006 is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Oxford is a city in Lafayette County, Mississippi, United States. ... Creative writing is a term used to distinguish certain imaginative or different types of writing from technical writing. ... The University of Mississippi, also known as Ole Miss, is a public, coeducational research university located in Oxford, Mississippi. ...

Works

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Novels

• Geronimo Rex (1972)
• Nightwatchmen (1973)
• Ray (1980)
• The Tennis Handsome (1983)
• Captain Maximus (1983)
• Hey Jack! (1987)
• Boomerang (1989)
• Never Die (1991)
• Yonder Stands Your Orphan (2001)

Story collections

• Airships (1978)
• Captain Maximus (1985)
• Bats out of Hell (1993)
• High Lonesome (1996)

Awards

• The William Faulkner Prize
• The Bellaman Foundation Award in Fiction
• The Arnold Gingrich Short Fiction Award
• The Award for Literature from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.

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External links

• Barry Hannah at the Mississippi Writers Page
• The Barry Hannah Society
• Audio Interview with Barry Hannah - RealAudio
• Perspectives on Barry Hannah Edited by Martyn Bone