A coroner's official says heart disease, complicated by high blood pressure and a hardening of the arteries, is what killed author E. Lynn Harris last week.
Harris collapsed on Thursday, July 23, while promoting his latest book, "Basketball Jones," in Los Angeles. Los Angeles County Coroner Craig Harvey confirmed on Wednesday that the 54-year-old author died of a heart attack brought on by cardio-vascular disease.
Harris lived in Atlanta and was considered a pioneer of gay Black fiction, enjoying unprecedented success in the genre. He wrote 11 novels, and ten of them became New York Times best-sellers.
More than four million of his books are in print.