Harry Crews, in his exceptional 1978 memoir, “A Childhood: The Biography of a Place,” recounts the origin story for his life as a writer. Crews grew up during the Great Depression on a tenant farm in ...

One night in early 1941, when Harry Crews was five years old, his father nearly killed his mother with a twelve-gauge shotgun. Looking back almost four decades later, Crews didn’t find that fact ...

Evangelists. Snake-oil salesmen. Sociopaths. These were the fictional characters Harry Crews spent his life chronicling–tortured, compelling souls seeking redemption in the Deep South. And the author, ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Author Harry Crews, a hell-raiser and cult favorite whose hard and crazy times inspired his brutal tales of ...

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 ...

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