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Harry Eugene Crews (June 7, 1935 – March 28, 2012) was an American novelist, short story writer, and essayist. He often made use of violent, grotesque characters and set them in regions of the Deep South.
Mar 15, 2022 · Why did Penguin decide to reissue a memoir and a novel by Harry Crews, a dead white Southern writer? His influence — and his truths — run deep.
A Large & Startling Figure: The Harry Crews Online Bibliography features information about American author Harry Crews (b. 1935), compiled as part of Levee 67. Highlights Crews' novels, short stories, anthologies, and nonfiction writings. Includes a biographical sketch, interviews, and more.
Mar 30, 2012 · Harry Crews, whose novels out-Gothic Southern Gothic by conjuring a world of hard-drinking, punch-throwing, snake-oil-selling characters whose physical, mental, social and sexual...
Mar 28, 2022 · Harry Crews’s account of hard labor and hard living in the American South, first published in 1978, animates nostalgia and then annihilates it. By Casey Cep. March 28,...
Mar 28, 2012 · Harry Eugene Crews was born during the Great Depression to sharecroppers in Bacon County, Georgia. His father died when he was an infant and his mother quickly remarried. His mother later moved her sons to Jacksonville, Florida.
Mar 30, 2012 · GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Author Harry Crews, a hell-raiser and cult favorite whose hard and crazy times inspired his extreme, but comic tales of the rural South, died Wednesday in Gainesville, Fla. He was 76 and had suffered from neuropathy, said his ex-wife, Sally Ellis Crews.
