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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Larry Brown Manuscripts #5282, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Received from Jerry L. Mills in July 2006 (Acc. 100450).

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• Authors, American--Mississippi.
• Brown, Larry, 1951 July 9-
• Brown, Larry, 1951 July 9- . Joe : a novel.
• Novelists, American--20th century.

Larry Brown was born on 9 July 1951 in Oxford, Miss. He briefly attended the University of Mississippi, but did not graduate. Brown served in the United States Marine Corps, 1970-1972, then worked as a firefighter for the Oxford Fire Department, 1973-1990. While a firefighter, Brown began to write fiction. His first book was Facing the Music (1988), a collection of short stories, and his first novel was Dirty Work (1989). Other novels include Big Bad Love (1990), Joe: A Novel (1991), Father and Son (1996), and Fay (2000). He twice won the Southern Book Critics Circle Award. Brown died in Oxford on 24 November 2004.

The collection includes two typewritten manuscripts of the novel Joe: A Novel by Oxford, Miss., author Larry Brown. The first manuscript is an early typed draft (284 pages) with some handwritten corrections. The second manuscript is a final typed draft (413 pages ), the first page of which contains a dedication to Jake Mills.