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| | MWP: Larry Brown (1951-2004) |
 | | Born July 9, 1951, in Oxford, Mississippi, Brown is sometimes compared to fellow Oxford resident William Faulkner because of their similar origins and education: both briefly attended the University of Mississippi (without graduating), and both learned their craft as writers in large measure by avid reading. |
| | Brown worked in a number of jobs over the years, including carpenter, lumberjack, fence builder, carpet cleaner, housepainter, hay hauler, and store employee, but he began his writing career during his career as a firefighter, a job he held from 1973 to 1990, when he retired to write full-time. |
| | Brown’s fiction continued to chronicle the downtrodden and disheartened denizens of the American South. |
| www.olemiss.edu /mwp/dir/brown_larry/index.html (719 words) |
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