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Author Barry Hannah has died
Author Barry Hannah, whose fiction was laced with dark humor and populated by hard-drinking Southerners, died Monday at his home in Oxford, Miss. He was 67.
Lafayette County Coroner Rocky Kennedy said Hannah died Monday afternoon of "natural causes," declining to elaborate until he shared the details with Hannah's wife, Susan. Kennedy said the death is not under investigation.
Hannah's first novel, "Geronimo Rex," was published in 1972. It received the William Faulkner prize for writing and was nominated for a National Book Award. His 1996 short story collection, "High Lonesome," was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.
Novelist and Mississippi native Richard Ford called Hannah "a shooting star."
Date: Mar 1 2010
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