Barry Hannah
Mississippi
USA Ford Fellow, Literature

Barry Hannah is an acclaimed novelist and short-story writer. Working in the tradition of Southern fiction, he creates quirky, humorous, and violent narratives. His first novel, Geronimo Rex (1972), was awarded the William Faulkner Award and was nominated for the National Book Award. Airships (1978) has been called one of the finest collections of short fiction from the contemporary South. Another of his novels, High Lonesome (1997), was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, and in 1999 Hannah received the Robert Penn Warren Lifetime Achievement Award in Fiction. Hannah is a devoted teacher and has been writer-in-residence at the University of Mississippi since 1982.

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Portrait photo courtesy Barry Hannah
Yonder Stands Your Orphan, 2001; cover design by Charles Rue Woods; photograph by Maude Schuyler Clay