Harry+Crews

__ Harry Crews  __ Harry Crews was born on June 7, 1935, in a home located in Bacon County. Crews, as a child, experienced many struggles and setbacks, which in return, affected a larger portion of his writing. Incidents included: falling into a pig boiler, severe cramps/muscle contractions which forced him to lie in his bed for many weeks, etc. Crews’s writing perspective was generally from poor whites, and being the influential writer that he was caused other authors to turn towards this perspective. Crews himself lived in a family with little money to spare (both his parents were both poor farmers that barely got by on their income). All of these circumstances truly made Crews the great and incredibly “Southern” writer that he was. His first novel, __The Gospel Singer__, was published in 1968 and earned him a teaching position at the University of Florida. While Crews worked at the University he published several more books (such as __The Hawk Is Dying__ and __Naked in Garden Hills__) which were compared to such writing styles as those of Flannery O'Connor and other acclaimed authors. Like O’Conner, many of Crews’s novels had a strange coincidence of grotesque in many of his characters. Harry Crews was finally inducted into the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame in the year of 2001. However, Crews essentially ended his literary career after this, and was only featured in documentaries from henceforth. Even today, Crews is still living life to the fullest, and continuing to entrance readers about the unique culture of the South that took place in those days from his works of literature.

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