Barry Hannah Overview

"The thing that puts you there, but puts you in a special space that you cannot get anywhere else but the page—that’s what I’m interested in. I know we’re not historians, but I love great history because you are just flabbergasted... [more]

"The thing that puts you there, but puts you in a special space that you cannot get anywhere else but the page—that’s what I’m interested in. I know we’re not historians, but I love great history because you are just flabbergasted that it actually happened. " -Barry Hannah, 1996, in an interview with the Mississippi Review Writer Barry Hannah obtained his B.A. from Mississippi College (1964) and his MFA from University of Arkansas (1966). Much of his fiction feeds off Southern locations, habits, and dialects and he has become known as a Southern writer. Hannah's first novel, Geronimo Rex (1971), won the William Faulkner Prize and his book of short stories, Airships (1978), won the Arnold Gingrich Short Fiction Award. Hannah released the novel Ray in 1980 and, around the same time, he briefly worked with Robert Altman in Hollywood. He has since published The Tennis Handsome (1983),Captain Maximus (1983), Captain Maximus (1985), Hey Jack! (1987), Boomerang (1989), Never Die (1991), Bats out of Hell (1993), High Lonesome (1996), and Yonder Stands Your Orphan (2001). Currently, Hannah serves as director of the MFA program at the University of Mississippi [show less]