E. Lynn Harris

E. Lynn Harris ( born June 20, 1955 in Flint, Michigan; † 23 July 2009 Los Angeles, California ) was an American author.

Life

Harris was born in 1955 in Michigan in an African-American family and grew up in Little Rock, Arkansas, on. After leaving school, Harris studied at the University of Arkansas and worked after his studies as a computer specialist for the company IBM. In addition to his work he began in the mid- 1990s as an author to write several books that took up the subject of homosexuality among other things. Harris lived openly homosexual in California. 2009 Harris died of a heart attack.

Works (selection)

• Invisible Life, 1994
• Just As I Am, 1995, winner of Blackboard 's Novel of the Year Award
• And This Too Shall Pass, 1997
• If This World Were Mine, 1998 winner of the James Baldwin Award for Literary Excellence
• Abide With Me, 2000
• Not A Day Goes By, 2000
• Money Can not Buy Me Love, 2000
• From the Book Got to Be Real - four original love stories by Eric Jerome Dickey, Marcus Major, E. Lynn Harris and Colin Channer
• Any Way the Wind Blows, 2002, winner of Blackboard 's Novel of the Year Award
• A Love Of My Own, 2003, winner of Blackboard 's Novel of the Year Award
• What Becomes Of The Brokenhearted - memoirs, 2004
• I Say a Little Prayer, 2006
• Just Too Good To Be True, 2008
• Basketball Jones, 2009
• Mama Dearest, 2009

Prizes and Awards (selection)

• 2005: Lambda Literary Award
• 1998: James Baldwin Award for Literary Excellence
• 1995, 2002 and 2003: Blackboard 's Novel of the Year Award