Larry Brown, 53; Writer Used Lean Prose to Tell His Tales in the Southern Gothic Tradition
LA Times
Larry Brown, a critically praised writer of Southern fiction who used plain language to tell complex stories about ordinary people in crisis, died Wednesday of an apparent heart attack at his home in Oxford, Miss., according to his publisher, Algonquin Press. He was 53. Brown had not been in ill health, but friends said that his family had a history of heart trouble.
