Barry Hannah (April 23, 1942 – March 1, 2010) was an American novelist and short story writer from Mississippi.
The following year, Hannah received the prestigious Award in Literature from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.
For a brief time Hannah lived in Los Angeles and worked as a writer for the film director Robert Altman.
[8]Hannah's first novel, the grotesque coming-of-age tale Geronimo Rex (1972), was nominated for the National Book Award.
[10] After the grotesque Western pastiche Never Die (1991),[11] Hannah stuck to short stories for the rest of the decade, first with the immense Bats Out of Hell (1993), which featured 23 stories over close to 400 pages, making it Hannah's longest book, and then with High Lonesome (1996), which was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.
[2] After a near-fatal bout with non-Hodgkin lymphoma,[12] Hannah returned in 2001 with Yonder Stands Your Orphan (the title is taken from Bob Dylan's song "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue"), his longest novel since Geronimo Rex.
In this novel, Hannah returned to a small community north of Vicksburg and to some of the characters featured in stories from Airships and Bats Out of Hell.
[citation needed] Then a 2009 issue of the literary journal Gulf Coast featured an excerpt from the novel, titled Sick Soldier at Your Door.
[16] A subsequent interview with Tom Franklin in the Summer 2009 issue of Tin House revealed that Sick Soldier at Your Door had been reconceived as a collection of short stories.