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Thursday, July 23 E. Lynn Harris died while on a business trip to Los Angeles. Click here for the CNN news article and obituary by John Blake. Blake wrote of Harris' work, "Harris wrote a series of novels that exposed readers to characters rarely depicted in literature: black, affluent gay men who were masculine, complex and, sometimes, tormented... In books like "Invisible Life," "A Love of My Own," and his New York Times best-selling memoir, "What Becomes of the Brokenhearted," Harris virtually invented a new genre: books that depicted black gay men living double lives... Though Harris wrote primarily about black gay men, some of his biggest fans were black women.... He eventually became one of the nation's most popular writers with an estimated 4 million of his books in print."

Labels: African American men - fiction, E. Lynn Harris, gay men - fiction