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Learn moreFor almost a decade, beloved storyteller E. Lynn Harris has welcomed you into his family with his passionate, warm and trail-blazing novels. Now, he invites you into the most intimate world ever--his own.
Since his first book Invisible Life was published in the early 1990s, New York Times bestselling author E. Lynn Harris has wowed, charmed and romanced millions of readers. As a master storyteller, E. Lynn Harris has created an intimate and glamorous world centered around his signature themes of love, friendship and family. People all over the world have fallen in love with his characters and laughed and cried with them.
Now, in his most daring act yet, E. Lynn Harris writes the memoir of his lifeโfrom his childhood in Arkansas as a closeted gay boy through his struggling days as a self-published author to his rise as a New York Times bestselling author. In What Becomes of the Brokenhearted, E. Lynn Harris shares an extraordinary life touched by loneliness and depression, but more important, he reveals the triumphant life of a small-town dreamer who was able through writing to make his dreamsโand moreโcome true.
E. Lynn Harris is a nine-time New York Times bestselling author. His work includes the memoir What Becomes of the Brokenhearted and the novels A Love of My Own, Just as I Am, Any Way the Wind Blows (all three of which were named Novel of the Year by the Blackboard African American Bestsellers), I Say a Little Prayer, If This World Were Mine (which won the James Baldwin Award for Literary Excellence), and the classic Invisible Life.ย
Richard Allen is a three-time Audieยฎ-nominated and Earphone Awardโwinning narrator who is one of the freshest voices to come onto the audiobook scene.ย A stage actor by training, Allen has worked on both sides of the Atlantic. He originated the role of Booker T. Washington in the world premiere of RagtimeโThe Musical, in addition to several TV appearances on Star Trek:ย TNG, and ER.
E. Lynn Harris is a nine-time New York Times bestselling author. His work includes the memoir What Becomes of the Brokenhearted and the novels A Love of My Own, Just as I Am, Any Way the Wind Blows (all three of which were named Novel of the Year by the Blackboard African American Bestsellers), I Say a Little Prayer, If This World Were Mine (which won the James Baldwin Award for Literary Excellence), and the classic Invisible Life.ย
Richard Allen is a three-time Audieยฎ-nominated and Earphone Awardโwinning narrator who is one of the freshest voices to come onto the audiobook scene.ย A stage actor by training, Allen has worked on both sides of the Atlantic. He originated the role of Booker T. Washington in the world premiere of RagtimeโThe Musical, in addition to several TV appearances on Star Trek:ย TNG, and ER.
Reviews
“The story of how [Harris] overcame the demons of his past is inspirational.”--Entertainment Weekly“Emotional, heart-pulling . . .an in-depth look into the real world of E. Lynn Harris.” --QBR, The Black Book Review
“Has all the dramatic elelments of a compelling work of fiction. . . . And Harris shares the positive experiences that have helped him become . . . proud, successful, happy.” --The Advocate Expand reviews