Bestselling novelist wrote about lives of gay black men

E. Lynn Harris, an African-American writer who wrote about the lives of gay and bisexual black men, has died. He was 54.

His publicist, Laura Gilmore, said Harris died Thursday night after being stricken while at the Peninsula Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif.

A cause of death has yet to be determined. He was on a West Coast book tour to promote his latest novel, Basketball Jones.

Harris has had 10 books on the New York Times bestseller list, including Abide with Me (1999), Not A Day Goes By (2000), Any Way the Wind Blows (2001), A Love of My Own (2002), I Say A Little Prayer (2006) and Just Too Good To Be True (2008), all published by Doubleday.

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