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E. Lynn Harris


Born
in Flint, Michigan, The United States
June 20, 1955

Died
July 23, 2009


E. Lynn Harris was born in Flint, Michigan and raised, along with three sisters, in Little Rock, Arkansas. He attended the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville where he was the school's first black yearbook editor, the first black male Razorbacks cheerleader, and the president of his fraternity. He graduated with honors with a degree in journalism.

Harris sold computers for IBM, Hewlett-Packard, and AT&T for thirteen years while living in Dallas, Washington, D.C., and Atlanta. He finally quit his sales job to write his first novel, Invisible Life, and, failing to find a publisher, he published it himself in 1991 and sold it mostly at black-owned bookstores, beauty salons, and book clubs before he was "discovered" by Anchor Books. Anchor pu
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Average rating: 4.26 · 59,771 ratings · 1,738 reviews · 47 distinct worksSimilar authors
Just As I Am

4.28 avg rating — 7,491 ratings — published 1994 — 8 editions
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Invisible Life

4.31 avg rating — 6,844 ratings — published 1991 — 22 editions
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Any Way the Wind Blows

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A Love of My Own

4.33 avg rating — 5,823 ratings — published 2002 — 23 editions
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And This Too Shall Pass

4.33 avg rating — 4,896 ratings — published 1996 — 19 editions
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Not a Day Goes By

4.30 avg rating — 4,533 ratings — published 2000 — 22 editions
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Abide With Me

4.29 avg rating — 3,923 ratings — published 1999 — 3 editions
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Just Too Good to Be True

4.22 avg rating — 3,494 ratings — published 2008 — 17 editions
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If This World Were Mine

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I Say a Little Prayer

4.25 avg rating — 2,936 ratings — published 2003 — 18 editions
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“luck runs out but blessings never do!”
E. Lynn Harris, Invisible Life

“my heart knows who i am and who i'll turn out to be!”
E. Lynn Harris, Invisible Life

“Ask him where black gay and lesbian people go who believe in God with all their heart when we’re not welcome in our churches. Not only in Denver and Atlanta, but all over this country. Ask him where we go to be nurtured and express our faith. Where do we go for forgiveness?”
E. Lynn Harris, I Say a Little Prayer

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