Description
The signed first edition, first printing of A Late Start: How I Became a Writer by Larry Brown.
Octavo, 8pp. Plain white wrappers, stapled at spine. Appears unread. Published by Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill as part of the publisher’s “How I Became a Writer” series.
Signed by Larry Brown on the front cover.
This text prints Brown’s talk from the Fifth Biennial Conference on Southern Literature, delivered in Chattanooga, Tennessee, on April 8, 1989. A scarce early autobiographical statement by Brown, issued the same year as Dirty Work and shortly after the publication of his first story collection, Facing the Music.
