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Author E. Lynn Harris died at age 54

July 25, 2009

The best selling Arkansas author E. Lynn Harris died at age 54. His publicist Laura Gilmore said Harris died Thursday night after being stricken at the Peninsula Hotel in Beverly Hills, and a cause of death had not been determined. She said Harris, who lived in Atlanta, fell ill on a train to Los Angeles a few days ago and blacked out for a few minutes, but seemed fine after that. E. Lynn Harris was known for contemporary stories about African-Americans.

His writing fell into several genres, including gay and lesbian fiction, African American fiction and urban fiction. But he found success in showing readers a new side of African American life: the secret world of professional, bisexual black men living as heterosexuals. [Source: AP]

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