Larry Brown
American novelist and short-story writer from Mississippi whose raw, working-class fiction channeled the tradition of Faulkner and Flannery O'Connor. Dirty Work and Joe are among his most celebrated works. He is a key figure in the Grit Lit movement.
Works
- Dirty WorkTwo Vietnam War veterans grapple with trauma, friendship, and their shattered lives
- JoeA violent man confronts redemption through unlikely friendship and human connection
- Father and SonA father and son struggle with love, violence, and the possibility of escape
- FayA woman navigates poverty, abuse, and survival in the rural American South
- Big Bad LoveInterconnected stories of working-class Southern men grappling with love and violence