Fresh Air, Barry Hannah (Nonfiction‪)‬

Writer Barry Hannah on this edition of Fresh Air. A native of Mississippi, Hannah has been writing for over thirty years - short stories, and novels set in the South. His writing is described as intensely personal, frenetic and comic. Truman Capote once called him "the maddest writer in the U.S.A." His first book, the autobiographical novel Geronimo Rex won the William Faulkner Prize for writing.. He continued to publish more short story collections and novels, though his new novel Yonder Stands Your Orphan is his first in ten years. Hannah teaches creative writing at the University of Mississippi. (Broadcast Date: July 31, 2001)