LARRY BROWN

He is the author of six previous books, including On Fire, a non-fiction account of his seventeen years  as an Oxford firefighter, and most recently the acclaimed novel Father and son. He is the recipient of the Mississippi Institute os Arts and Letters Award for Literature, the Southern Critics Circle Award for Fiction in 1992 and 1997, and the Lila Wallace - Reader's Digest Award. A documentary, The Rough South of Larry Brown, premiered at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University in spring 2000.