A Late Start; How I Became a Writer

Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books, 1989. First Edition, First Printing. Pamphlet. Fine. 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.