Lars Eighner

American writer

PersonDied aged 77humanQ6491460

Born: November 25, 1948
Died: 2021
Birthplace: Corpus Christi
Place of death: Austin
Citizenship: United States
Occupation: writer
Education: University of Texas at Austin
, Lamar High School

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Laurence "Lars" Eighner Hexamer was an American author and memoirist. He was the author of Travels with Lizbeth, a memoir of homelessness in the American Southwest during the late 1980s, "a book widely regarded as one of the finest memoirs of recent decades." Included as a chapter in that book was the essay "On Dumpster Diving," which is widely anthologized both at full length and in abridged form under the title "My Daily Dives in the Dumpster."

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Sex or gender: male
Given name: Lars

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