Barry Hannah (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
A southerner who draws inevitable comparison to his predecessors William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, and Flannery O’Connor, Barry Hannah emerged in the last half of the twentieth century as one of the most prominent and idiosyncratic voices in American literature. He grew up in the small town of Clinton, Mississippi, where his father, William Hannah, was an insurance agent and his mother, Elizabeth King Hannah, a homemaker.
Hannah’s experience as a trumpet player in his public high school’s all-state band became a major influence on both his subject matter and his style as a...
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