Greg Els, author of “Nachis Burning”, dies in 65 years after a long battle with cancer

Els died on Friday after a decades -long battle with multi -leukemia, his literary agent Dan Conway posted on Saturday on Facebook.

Initially, his condition was diagnosed with a non -healing condition in 1996, maintaining his own illness until he ended his last novel, “Southern Man”, which was published in 2024.

Ellis was born in Germany but moved to Nachis, Mississippi, with his family when he was only three years old and developed a profound relationship with the region. Several stories were placed in Mississippi, including the “Nachis Burning” trilogy, and historical excitement narratives that explore the race and the class in the 1960s, Jim Crow South.

Conney Ilees described as “warm, funny, does not know fear, and sui generis” completely.

He wrote on Saturday: “To be on the other side of the phone while speaking through the personality and conspiracy, and solving problems during flying, he was supposed to be a witness to the genius at work, which is simple and simple.” “As a writer, he merged the story, deep humanity, and the growing sense of moral and political responsibility with the fierce accuracy of the Drofch of rotation or the main watchmaker.”

In March 2011, Ellis suffered from the extended aorta and a partial leg amputation and spent eight days in a medically impossible coma after another driver hit his car on the 61st highway near Nachis. In the end.

Ilees performed with the musical group The Rock Bottom Bayders alongside popular authors Stephen King, Amy Tan and others.