E. Lynn Harris, the thor who troduced lns of rears to the "visible life" of black gay men, was a lerary pneer whose generosy was as huge as his urage, iends said Friday.
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- E. LYNN HARRIS DI AT 54; BTSELLG THOR BROKE BARRIERS WRG ABOUT GAY BLACK CHARACTERS
- RANDALL KENAN DI: AUTHOR DEPICTED BLACK, GAY LIFE IN PROSE
- E. LYNN HARRIS, WHO WROTE OF GAY BLACK MEN’S LIV, DI AT 54
- RANDALL KENAN DI: AUTHOR PICTED BLACK, GAY LIFE PROSE
E. LYNN HARRIS DI AT 54; BTSELLG THOR BROKE BARRIERS WRG ABOUT GAY BLACK CHARACTERS
* black gay author died *
Lynn Harris, the thor who troduced lns of rears to the "visible life" of black gay men, was a lerary pneer whose generosy was as huge as his urage, iends said Friday. Harris wrote a seri of novels that exposed rears to characters rarely picted lerature: black, affluent gay men who were mascule, plex and, sometim, tormented. Keh Boyk, an thor and iend, said Harris enuraged the black muny to talk openly about homosexualy.
RANDALL KENAN DI: AUTHOR DEPICTED BLACK, GAY LIFE IN PROSE
Randall Kenan, an thor whose stori explored the experience of beg Black and gay the Amerin South, has died. He was Universy of North… * black gay author died *
" How Harris broke ground In books like "Invisible Life, " "A Love of My Own, " and his New York Tim bt-sellg memoir, "What Be of the Brokenhearted, " Harris virtually vented a new genre: books that picted black gay men livg double liv. Though Harris wrote primarily about black gay men, some of his biggt fans were black women.
"I had never seen homosexual love Ain-Amerin men portrayed that way, " she says. "He always said 'I'm not a Jam Baldw, '" Boyk said, referrg to the openly gay black thor om the 1960s.
E. LYNN HARRIS, WHO WROTE OF GAY BLACK MEN’S LIV, DI AT 54
Randall Kenan, an thor whose stori explored the experience of beg Black and gay the Amerin South, has died * black gay author died *
"He was hurt by some of the cricism om some black gay men who felt he wasn't portrayg them accurately and others who thought he was tellg too much, " Boyk said. In a 2003 Detro Free Prs terview, Harris said he risted beg an advote for gay rights. " Due said there has tradnally been a lot of pa associated wh homosexualy the black muny.
RANDALL KENAN DI: AUTHOR PICTED BLACK, GAY LIFE PROSE
All About Gay and Lbian Relatnships • Ain-Amerin Issu • Books. Lynn Harris, a btsellg thor of popular black fictn who shattered barriers by wrg about gay characters novels such as “Invisible Life” and “Jt As I Am: A Novel, ” died Thursday night at Cedars-Sai Medil Center Los Angel.
Lynn broke barriers popular fictn by wrg of gay black characters a time when those stori were not visible to most Amerins and certaly not to most Ain Amerins, ” said Pla L. “I wanted to try and nvey the pa and lonels volved beg black and beg gay, ” Harris told The Tim receivg a spate of rejectn letters, Harris self-published his novel. “It’s not that there weren’t black gay thors wrg and beg published before, ” said Charl Flowers, who was Harris’ edor at Doubleday for 10 years, begng wh his third novel.