Barry Hannah (1942-2010) was the author of twelve books and the recipient of the Robert Penn Warren Achievement Award, the PEN/Malamud Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, as well as an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts & Letters. A long-time writing instructor who taught at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and Sewanee, he was the director of the MFA program at the University of Mississippi where his students included Larry Brown and Donna Tartt.
