Larry Brown was born in Lafayette County, Mississippi, where he lived all his life. At the age of 30, a captain in the Oxford Fire Department, he decided to become a writer and worked toward that goal for seven years before publishing his first book, FACING THE MUSIC, a collection of stories, in 1988. With the publication of his first novel, DIRTY WORK, he quit the fire station in order to write fulltime. Between then and his untimely death in 2004, he published seven more books. His three grown children and his widow, Mary Annie Brown, live near Oxford.

Books by Larry Brown

Joe

by Larry Brown - Fiction

Nearing 50, Joe Ransom won't slow down, not in his pickup, not with a gun --- and certainly not with women. At 15, Gary Jones is already slipping through the cracks. Part of a hopeless, homeless wandering family, he's desperate for a way out. He finds it in Joe. Together they follow a twisting map to redemption --- or ruin. 

Billy Ray's Farm

by Larry Brown - Nonfiction

Fay

by Larry Brown - Fiction