Captain Maximus
By Barry Hannah
1985
First Published
3.78
Average Rating
101
Number of Pages
8 short stories featuring this unusual author's "... hard drinkers, passionate lovers, good haters, living on the edge, hurling fury at a complacent world."
Avg Rating
3.78
Number of Ratings
212
5 STARS
27%
4 STARS
37%
3 STARS
25%
2 STARS
9%
1 STARS
2%
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Author
Barry Hannah
Author · 15 books
Barry Hannah was an American novelist and short story writer from Mississippi. He was the author of eight novels and five short story collections. He worked with notable American editors and publishers such as Gordon Lish, Seymour Lawrence, and Morgan Entrekin. His work was published in Esquire, The New Yorker, The Oxford American, The Southern Review, and a host of American magazines and quarterlies. In his lifetime he was awarded the The Faulkner Prize (1972), The Bellaman Foundation Award in Fiction, The Arnold Gingrich Short Fiction Award, the PEN/Malamud Award (2003) and the Award for Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He was director of the MFA program at the University of Mississippi, in Oxford, where he taught creative writing for 28 years. He died on March 1, 2010, of natural causes.
