Larry Brown: A Writer's Life - Paperbackby Jean W. Cash (Author), Shannon Ravenel (Foreword by) Larry Brown (1951 2004) was unique among writers who started their careers in the late twentieth century. Unlike most of them his friends Clyde Edgerton, Jill McCorkle, Rick Bass, and Kaye Gibbons, among others he was neither a product of a writing program, nor did he teach at one. In fact, he did not even attend college. His innate talent, his immersion in the life of north Mississippi, and his