Speed Lamkin

Speed Lamkin
BornHillyer Speed Lamkin
(1927-11-02)November 2, 1927
Monroe, Louisiana, U.S.
DiedMay 3, 2011(2011-05-03) (aged 83)
Monroe, Louisiana, U.S.
Resting placeOld City Cemetery, Monroe, Louisiana, U.S.
Occupation
  • Novelist
  • playwright
NationalityAmerican
Alma materHarvard University
ParentsEbb Tyler Lamkin
Eugenia Layton Speed

Hillyer Speed Lamkin (born Monroe, Louisiana, November 2, 1927[1] – Monroe, Louisiana, May 3, 2011[2]) was an American novelist and playwright. He is best known for his first novel Tiger in the Garden (1950) and was called "the poor man's Truman Capote" by the composer Ned Rorem.[3] He was a recipient of a 1950 O. Henry Award for his short story Comes a Day.

  1. ^ "Hillyer Speed Lamkin". Findagrave. Findagrave. Retrieved 14 November 2014.
  2. ^ "Hillyer Speed Lamkin Obituary". The News Star. 4 May 2011. Retrieved 14 November 2014.
  3. ^ Ned Rorem, A Ned Rorem Reader, Yale University Press, 2001, page 276