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Larry Brown

Born

in Oxford, Mississippi, The United States

July 09, 1951

Died

November 24, 2004

Genre

Literature & Fiction, Short Stories, Nonfiction

Influences

William Faulkner, Flannery O'Connor, Raymond Carver, Cormac McCart ...more

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Larry Brown was an American writer who was born and lived in Oxford, Mississippi. Brown wrote fiction and nonfiction. He graduated from high school in Oxford but did not go to college. Many years later, he took a creative writing class from the Mississippi novelist Ellen Douglas. Brown served in the United States Marine Corps from 1970 to 1972. On his return to Oxford, he worked at a small stove company before joining the city fire department. An avid reader, Brown began writing in his spare time while he worked as a firefighter in Oxford in 1980.

Brown was awarded the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters award f ...more

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Average rating: 4.07 · 20,106 ratings · 2,031 reviews · 75 distinct works • Similar authors

	Joe 4.16 avg rating — 3,835 ratings — published 1991 — 40 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fay 3.99 avg rating — 3,197 ratings — published 2000 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Father and Son 4.12 avg rating — 3,009 ratings — published 1996 — 31 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Big Bad Love 4.10 avg rating — 2,382 ratings — published 1990 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dirty Work 4.16 avg rating — 2,313 ratings — published 1989 — 26 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Facing the Music 4.14 avg rating — 1,257 ratings — published 1988 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Rabbit Factory 3.60 avg rating — 1,205 ratings — published 2003 — 30 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	On Fire 4.02 avg rating — 995 ratings — published 1994 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Miracle of Catfish 4.16 avg rating — 771 ratings — published 2007 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Billy Ray's Farm: Essays from a Place Called Tula 3.98 avg rating — 434 ratings — published 2001 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by Larry Brown (?)

“After a year of therapy, my psychiatrist said to me, "Maybe life isn't for everyone.”
― Larry Brown

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“I can understand why people jump off bridges.”
― Larry Brown, Facing the Music

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“I only had one life, and I'd be damned if I'd live it in a way that would make me unhappy and please somebody else. I had already lived that kind of life, too much of it already.”
― Larry Brown, Big Bad Love

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Polls

What shall we read in April, 2023? Books published after 1990.

Father and Son, by Larry Brown

21 votes 31.8%

Stars of Alabama, by Sean Dietrich

17 votes 25.8%

She Walks These Hills, by Sharyn McCrumb

10 votes 15.2%

Happy Dreams of Liberty: An American Family in Slavery and Freedom, by R. Isabela Morales

7 votes 10.6%

Every Bone a Prayer, by Ashley Blooms

7 votes 10.6%

Deadly Southern Charm: A Lethal Ladies Mystery Anthology, edited by Mary Burton

4 votes 6.1%

66 total votes

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