The AP is reporting that writer E. Lynn Harris passed away today. According to his publicist Laura Gilmore, he died at the Peninsula Hotel in Beverly Hills.
He was 54.
I was never really a fan but can’t deny his huge cultural impact. He was everywhere in the 90s – on the bus/subway, campuses, hair salons, . . . He proved those of us who assumed his career would be super-short wrong. His audience kept growing. He kept at it and ended up with a very lucrative body of work. I just looked over this body of work and didn’t realized how much he had managed to produce very consistently. He will be missed.
His Work
Invisible Life (Self published: 1991; Mass market: 1994)
Just As I Am (1994)
And This Too Shall Pass (1997)
If This World Were Mine (1998)
Abide With Me (2000)
Not a Day Goes By (2000)
Got to be Real: Four Original Love Stories (2000)
by Colin Channer, Eric Jerome Dickey, E. Lynn Harris and Marcus Major.
Any Way the Wind Blows (2002)
A Love of My Own (2003)
What Becomes of the Brokenhearted: A Memoir (2004)
I Say a Little Prayer (2006)
Just Too Good to Be True (2008)
Basketball Jones (2009)
Mama Dearest (Oct. 2009)
