Not a Day Goes By (20 page)
E. LYNN HARRIS
NOT A DAY GOES BY
E. Lynn Harris is a former IBM computer sales executive and a graduate of the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville. He is the author of eight novels:
A Love of My Own
,
Any Way the
Wind Blows
,
Not a Day Goes By
,
Abide with Me
,
If This World Were Mine
,
This Too Shall Pass
,
Just
as I Am
, and
Invisible Life
, and a memoir,
What
Becomes of the Brokenhearted
. In 1996 and 2002,
Just as I Am
and
Any Way the Wind Blows
were each named Novel of the Year by the Blackboard African American Bestsellers, Inc.
If This World
Were Mine
won the James Baldwin Award for Literary Excellence. In 2000 and 2001, Harris was named one of the fifty-five “Most Intriguing African Americans” by
Ebony
and inducted into the Arkansas Black Hall of Fame. In 2002, Harris was included in
Savoy
magazine’s “100 Leaders and Heroes in Black America.” Harris divides his time between Atlanta, Georgia, and Fayetteville, Arkansas.
ALSO BY E. LYNN HARRIS
Invisible Life
Just As I Am
And This Too Shall Pass
If This World Were Mine
Abide With Me
Any Way the Wind Blows
A Love of My Own
What Becomes of the Brokenhearted
Second Anchor Books Edition, January 2004
Copyright © 2000 by E. Lynn Harris
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This novel is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to real events, businesses, organizations, and locales are intended only to give the fiction a sense of reality and authenticity. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
The Library of Congress has cataloged the Doubleday edition as follows:
Harris, E. Lynn.
Not a day goes by: a novel / by E. Lynn Harris.—1st ed.
p. cm.
1. Separation (Psychology)—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3558.A64438 N68 2000
813’.54—dc21 00-38368
eISBN: 978-0-307-42703-8
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