| LC control no. | n 92105340 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| LC classification | PS3558.A64438 |
| Personal name heading | Harris, E. Lynn |
| Variant(s) | Harris, Everette Lynn |
| Other standard no. | Q1273517 http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1273517 |
| Biography/History note | E. Lynn Haris was an African American author. |
| Associated country | United States |
| Birth date | 1955-06-20 |
| Death date | 2009-07-23 |
| Place of birth | Flint (Mich.) |
| Place of death | Los Angeles (Calif.) |
| Affiliation | University of Arkansas, Fayetteville International Business Machines Corporation |
| Profession or occupation | Novelists |
| Found in | His Invisible life, c1991: t.p. (E. Lynn Harris) biogr. notes (b. in Little Rock, Mr. Harris has been employed in marketing positions at IBM, Hewlett-Packard, AT&T and Tektronix; Invisible life is his first novel) New York times WWW site, July 27, 2009 (in obituary published July 24: E. Lynn Harris; b. Everette Lynn Harris, June 20, 1955, Flint, Mich.; grew up in Little Rock, Ark.; d. Thursday [July 23, 2009], Los Angeles, aged 54; his novels about successful and glamorous black men with sexual identity conflicts (and the women and men who love them) made him one of the nation's most popular writers) African American National Biography, accessed via The Oxford African American Studies Center online database, July 27, 2014: (Harris, E. Lynn; Everette Lynn Williams; fiction writer, gay rights activist; born 20 June 1955 in Flint, Michigan, United States; gets the surname Harris from his mother's second husband; graduated with honors with a degree in journalism from the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville; recruited by IBM, for the next thirteen years he sold computers while living in Dallas, Washington, D.C., and Atlanta; self-published his first novel, Invisible Life, and was noticed by the mainstream publishing houses; his books were on best-sellers lists; nominated for the NAACP Image Award (1997); won the James Baldwin Award for Literary Excellence; inducted into the Arkansas Black Hall of Fame (2000), at the time of his death, he had become a highly regarded activist and philanthropist in the black and black gay communities; died 23 July 2009 in Los Angeles, California, United States) Harris, E. Lynn. What becomes of the brokenhearted, 2004: page 3 (I've sometimes felt a little disconnected from other African Americans.) |
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