E. Lynn Harris
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E. Lynn Harris was an American author who rose from self-publishing to best-selling status. He was best known as a pioneer of gay black fiction. He authored ten consecutive books to make ”The New York Times” Best Seller list. After graduating with honors from the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville in 1977, Harris went to work as a sales executive for IBM. Five years later, he quit his job as a computer salesman and used $25,000 of his own money to print ”Invisible Life.” It was published as a Doubleday paperback in 1994 and quickly soared to number one on the Blackboard Bestseller List of African American titles.Harris also edited two books, ”Freedom in the Village: Twenty-five years of Black, Gay Men’s Writing” in 2004 and ”Gumbo: A Celebration of African American Writers” with Marita Golden in 2002. He founded the E. Lynn Harris Better Days Foundation, a nonprofit company that provides support to aspiring writers and artists.
A love of my own | A love of my own : | Abide with me / | Abide with me : | And this too shall pass : | Any way the wind blows / | Basketball Jones | I say a little prayer | If This World Were Mine | If this world were mine : | In my father’s house | Invisible life | Invisible life / | Just as I am : | Just too good to be true | Mama dearest | No one in the world / | No one in the world : | Not a day goes by : | What Becomes of the Brokenhearted : | What becomes of the brokenhearted :