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	www.myspace.com/harrycrews
		Harry Eugene Crews was born on June 7, 1935, in Bacon County, Georgia, to Ray and Myrtice, who worked a desperate and indigent living farming in dirt-poor southern Georgia.
		Crews was devastated by Patrick's death, burdened by guilt he attributed to inattention, both to the boy and to his family, and to preoccupation with learning to write.
		Crews often mentions Graham Greene as a major influence on the development of his narrative style - a narrative line like a piece of string tied to the first page of a story, drawn straight and held taught to the last.
	www.myspace.com /harrycrews (3152 words)

	New Georgia Encyclopedia: Harry Crews (b. 1935) (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Harry Crews is a prolific novelist whose often freakish characters populate a strange, violent, and darkly humorous South.
		Crews joined the marines when he was seventeen, while his brother was away fighting in the Korean War.
		Crews continued to teach during these years, and he wrote screenplays, plays, and nonfiction pieces, some of which are collected in Florida Frenzy (1982).
	www.georgiaencyclopedia.org.cob-web.org:8888 /nge/Article.jsp?id=h-1231 (1237 words)

	Honorees - Harry Crews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Harry Crews was born in 1935, in Bacon County, Georgia.
		Crews has been described as "a dark chronicler of human vanity and folly," an artist in depicting "the world of the misbegotten, the freaks and misfits and malcontents in whose strange doings Crews is able to locate a genuine if quirky humanity" (Washington Post Book World).
		Crews' 1978 memoir A Childhood: The Biography of a Place tells of his growing up in rural southern Georgia and of coming to terms with that culture as an adult.
	www.libs.uga.edu /gawriters/crews.html (617 words)

	Harry Crews
		Crews suffered the first of two debilitating illnesses in 1940 at the age of five.
		The first was a fever accompanied by a painful muscle contraction which caused the muscles in his legs to seize, drawing his heels up against the backs of his legs, forcing him to lie in bed for six weeks until the cramps in his legs subsided and he could be carried around the farm.
		Used to moving from one hapless plot of ground to the next barren patch, Crews accompanied his mother and brother away from the farm to escape her second husband, who by then had taken to drinking heavily.
	amsaw.org /amsaw-ithappenedinhistory-050704-crews.html (703 words)

	Amazon.de: A Childhood: The Biography of a Place: English Books: Harry Crews,Michael McCurdy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		This is a memoir of Harry Crew's earliest years - a sharply remembered portrait of the people, locales and circumstances that shaped him and destined him to become a storyteller.
		Harry Crews is a gifted writer and deserves many accolades from not only his birth place, but the state and country as well.
		Crew's A Childhood: Biography of a Place is not a novel, nor is it a history, biography, autobiography, or memoir in any traditional sense, rather it seems to be all these quilted together.
	www.amazon.de /Childhood-Biography-Place-Harry-Crews/dp/0820317594 (709 words)

	Harry Crews Summary
		Harry Crews is the author of ten books--eight novels (the first published in 1968), an autobiography, and a collection of magazine nonfiction pieces.
		Crews is a very powerful, at times even outlandish, and uneven novelist.
		In terms of fictional techniques, Crews is what he says he is, "a very traditional story teller," yet the essence of his art and vision is experiential and aesthetic risk-taking; excess is his mean.
	www.bookrags.com /Harry_Crews (424 words)

	Amazon.de: Rezensionen zu A Feast of Snakes: English Books: Harry Crews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Crews will baptize you in a lake of raw sewage laughing gleefully all the while as you struggle to understand why you feel redeemed.
		Harry Crews has established himself as a kind of southern gothic Hemingway whose bruised, bloody and always, in some ways, crippled protagonists seem more foolish than heroic.
		Harry Crews, who grew up in rural south Georgia, does an excellent job of telling the story of a young man who grew up in a rural, poor, and culturally-deprived area of Georgia.
	www.amazon.de /Feast-Snakes-Harry-Crews/dp/customer-reviews/0684842483 (1208 words)

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		Harry Eugene Crews was born on June 7, 1935 in a small community called Bacon County, Georgia.
		Harry's father (Ray Crews) died when he was two, and his mother married Ray's brother Pascal.
		Crews and Sally were separated, but then remarried in 1962.
	www.ncteamericancollection.org /litmap/crews_harry_ga.htm (256 words)

	Perspectives on Harry Crews
		Critics have called Harry Crews a "mad genius" and "Flannery O'Connor on steroids." His novels chronicle the southern world on the edge of insanity.
		Crews has created a bizarre literary landscape, and this book is a critical collection devoted to helping readers traverse it.
		Born to sharecropper parents, Harry Crews lived in and writes about a South extremely different from the South of Scarlett O'Hara, William Faulkner, and Flannery O'Connor.
	www.upress.state.ms.us /catalog/spring2001/persp_on_harry_crews.html (434 words)

	Harry (Eugene) Crews Biography \| Dictionary of Literary Biography
		Harry Crews has primarily written novels -- his thirteenth was published in 1992 -- though he has also authored a highly acclaimed autobiography and many essays.
		Crews relates in A Childhood: The Biography of a Place (1978) that he was born and raised in dire poverty in rural south Georgia.
		His stepfather -- like Harry's father, who died when his son was a small child -- was a tenant farmer who worked long, back-breaking hours, barely ma.....
	www.bookrags.com /biography/harry-eugene-crews-dlb2 (206 words)

	PopCult Magazine/Harry Crews
		Crews, who's been on faculty for years at the University of Florida, grew up in the hard world of rural southern Georgia and the factory towns of northern Florida.
		Crews started publishing in 1968, with The Gospel Singer, and has since produced 17 books, mostly novels along with some collections of essays and articles for magazines like Playboy and Esquire.
		"How is it that Harry Crews, who grew up the son of a share-cropper in Bacon County, Georgia–and I've been to Bacon County, Georgia, there ain't much there… and yet out of that emerges a writer," Bledsoe says.
	www.popcultmag.com /criticalmass/books/crews/crews1.html (1544 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Mulching of America : A Novel: Books: Harry Crews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		by Harry Crews (Author) "the air was a shimmering of heat, and it felt to Hickum Looney as though with every step he took the weight of the sun..." (more)
		Although this book was not as strange, or as blatently shocking and funny as Crews' other masterpieces, this book is truly one of his greatest, and one of the greatest social satires to date.
		Crews starts to work his magic, creating cracker archetypes from a few glimpses, a phrase, a cliche, and a heavy dose of alchemy; but the thing falls apart.
	www.amazon.ca /Mulching-America-Novel-Harry-Crews/dp/0684825414 (1062 words)

	Collection Anime: Getting Naked With Harry Crews: Interviews - $24.95 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		I think that even someone who has nоt read аnу of Harry Crews could be fascinated by this collection of interviews.
		Crews, a self proclaimed redneck from rurаl Georgia, has over a thiry five year career published sоmе of the finest fiction tо come of out the sоuth.
		Moments of pure Harry suсh as informing a female intеrviеwеr that despite being on the wagon his sexual роwеrs have not deminished or, in another interview аftеr speaking at length about being sober for а year, he downs several carafes of whitе winе because he doesn't really think it counts.
	www.collection-anime.com /tovar30383133303137303932.html (434 words)

	Amazon.com: Classic Crews: A Harry Crews Reader: Books: Harry Crews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		In contrast, Harry Crews the writer is a man of unadorned style with a nearly minimalist approach to fiction.
		Harry Crews' stories are bizarre, true--but they often teach important lessons about consumerism and the dangers of being cut off from the land.
		Crews' voice is so funny and sometimes,downright bizarre that you can't help but be taken in by it.
	www.amazon.com /Classic-Crews-Harry-Reader/dp/0671865277 (1368 words)

	Harry Crews Interview with Don Swaim (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		In this 1990 interview Don Swaim talks with Harry Crews, author of Body, Celebration, A Feast of Snakes, The Gospel Singer, Karate Is a Thing of the Spirit, and Naked in Garden Hills.
		Forcing the reader to make a moral judgment about the characters in his novels is a goal for Harry Crews, and he feels that fiction is not a forum to make a political point.
		Crews discusses his novel, Body, and tells of the many hours he has spent working out in the gymnasium.
	wiredforbooks.org /harrycrews (163 words)

	University Press of Florida: Getting Naked with Harry Crews
		Crews reveals the tender side under his tough-guy image, discussing his beloved mother and his spiritual quest in a secular world.
		Crews also speaks frankly about his failed relationships, the role that writing played in them, and his personal struggles with alcohol and drugs and their impact on his life and work.
		His 1997 interview with Harry Crews from that magazine is included in this collection.
	www.upf.com /book.asp?id=BLEDSF99 (478 words)

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		Crews detests automobiles, and his novel "Car" a man eats one, piece by piece.
		A frequent Crews device--some would say his signature device--is to people his novels with so-called freaks: a man with withered legs who walks on his hands, a man who weighs 600 pounds, any number of midgets and the founder of a soap company who gives inspirational speeches to his minions through a harelip.
		Harry Crews has lived hard to acquire the raw material, the darkness in which he gropes for stories, and he has worked hard at mastering the craft of telling them.
	www.forewordmagazine.com /reviews/viewreviews.aspx?reviewID=1441 (678 words)

	Southern History and Culture - Harry Crews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Born on June 7, 1935 in Bacon County Georgia, Harry Crews has become a preeminent novelists of the 'southern gothic' genre.
		His straight narrative style has been labled 'fast, mean, dangerous, extraordinarily violent' and the bizarre characters of his novels expose the social realities of the postmodern south.
		Those who haven't read Crews might begin with his 1978 autobiography 'A Childhood: The Biography Of A Place' which concludes with; "I had already done what, in Bacon County, was unthinkable.
	www.bluegatco.com /docs/c/harry_crews.html (285 words)

	Harry Crews - Moviefone
		Canadian pop band Men Without Hats has a song called "Harry Crews" on their 1991...
		In 26 interviews conducted between 1972 and 1997, novelist Harry Crews tells the truth--about...
		Harry Crews - Filmography, Biography, News, Photos, Birth date, Relationships, Harry Crews Film Clips, and Fun Facts on Moviefone.
	movies.aol.com /celebrity/harry-crews/15758/main (125 words)

	Amazon.com: A Feast of Snakes: A Novel: Books: Harry Crews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Harry Crews takes the dark underbelly of the South and spins a tale that exposes even the most minute details to the scorching light of day.
		Harry Crews has a cast of charaacters for his story that run the gamut from dark to hopeless, yet intriguing!
		The premise, a twenty-something Joe Lon Mackey is stuck in a trailer home with a woman he loathes and several hungry children while he escapes with recent memories of his glory football days, drinking moonshine, and helping the town with its annual snake festival.
	www.amazon.com /Feast-Snakes-Novel-Harry-Crews/dp/0684842483 (1724 words)

	Amazon.ca: A Childhood: The Biography of a Place: Books: Harry Crews,Michael McCurdy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		After reading it, I found myself wondering how Crews was able to escape childhood, much less become of the the greatest Southern authors since Faulkner.
		Crew's accurate depection of tenant farmer life was valididated, to this reader at least, by his portrayal of an agricultural system that was difficult to not only rural agricultural African Americans, but their white supervisors.
		Crews has done a wonderful job of incorporating the distinctly southern phrases and dialogue of the rural, agrarian south.
	www.amazon.ca /Childhood-Biography-Place-Harry-Crews/dp/0820317594 (930 words)

	Celebration - Harry Crews - Used Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Typical Crews' gothic tale of the malcontents and freaks of our culture.
		This satirical novel takes place in a Florida trailer park for the aging, where things are profoundly shaken up by the arrival of a blonde bombshell called Too Much.
		Crews brings to life a world of has-beens, ruined men, forgotten wives--and the ebullient woman who is out to save them all--in this darkly hilarious novel centered in a gruesome Florida retirement community with peculiar residents.
	www.biblio.com /books/6806857.html (299 words)

	Harry Crews: Quiz
		Harry Crews: A Large and Startling Figure, compiled by Oyster Boy Review's editor Damon Suave
		Harry Crews: Guilty as Charged by Tom Thurman and Chris Iovenko - an exceptional documentary featuring Crews, James Dickey, Byron Crews and Maggie Powell.
		Includes essays on Crews by, among others, Larry Brown; an interview; and two chapters from Assault of Memory, Crew's work in progress, the highly anticipated follow up to his biography, A Childhood.
	www.barcelonareview.com /20/hc_quiz.htm (556 words)

	Amazon.fr : Scar Lover: Livres en anglais: Harry Crews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		de Harry Crews "Pete Butcher had not meant to speak to her..." (plus)
		Pete's sudden responsibility to the Leemers serves to expiate his guilt over his brother; Crews admirably sustains his theme of disfigurement and healing, and if the finale is slightly ambiguous it still bears its author's trademark perverse twist.
		Crews darkly comic tale gives a disturbingly accurate portrayal of characters from the rural South, each fiercely shaped by sweat, grit, and cruel hardship.
	www.amazon.fr /Scar-Lover-Harry-Crews/dp/0671797867 (469 words)

	Getting Naked with Harry Crews- A new book from the University Press of Florida
		It is a genuinely breathtaking look at the genesis, development, habits, and obstacles to becoming a great writer.
		Getting Naked with Harry Crews should be on every writer's shelf.
		Bledsoe has done a service to students of Southern and Georgia literature by providing a truly remarkable edited work on one of the region's most engaging characters.
	www.upf.com /Fall1999/bledsoe.html (624 words)

	Novels \| A Large & Startling Figure: The Harry Crews Online Bibliography
		"An American Family by Harry Crews is published in three editions: 26 lettered & signed copies hand-bound in goatskin with handmade paper boards housed in a special custom slipcase, 300 numbered & signed copies in quarter leather with handmade paper boards & slipcase, and 2,000 trade hardcover copies bound in cloth."
		Steadman's avidly idiosyncratic style—well-known from his corroborative efforts with Hunter S. Thompson—is strikingly appropriate for Crews, the titles and cover art reflecting the grotesque turn and assault of the artist's own imagination on his or her reality.
		Disavowing his family's expectations to mourn the death of his nephew, George Gattling focuses on breaking a captured hawk, an action that sets him on a course contrary to business and family responsibilities, but affords him psychological satisfaction.
	www.harrycrews.com /Fiction/Novels/index.html (882 words)

	ttgapers store - USA - The MULCHING OF AMERICA: A Novel - Harry Crews - Product Details :: ttgapers.com
		Warts and all though, and some very stilted dialogue (which would continue in Crews' subsequent and last novel, "Celebration"), "Mulching" is a hell of a ride, with twists and turns so unpredictable, it's almost dizzying.
		In his satire of corporate America, I wouldn't say that Crews is the next Jonathan Swift, but I truly doubt this was his intention.
		Instead, we are given the typical Crews mix of eccentric characters in hyper-realistic surroundings, with, of course, a shocking ending.
	www.ttgapers.com /module-ttStore-product-asin-0684825414-locale-us.html (685 words)

	Skellarlist Harry Crews
		A Childhood : The Biography of a Place Harry Crews / Hardcover / Published 1995 $17.47
		The Mulching of America : A Novel Harry Crews / Hardcover / Published 1995 $15.40:
		Harry Crews, a Childhood : The Biography of a Place/Readings/Cassette Harry Crews / Hardcover / Published 1987 $13.95 (Special Order)
	www.scenewash.org /contraband/crews.html (431 words)

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