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Harry Crews

Born

in Bacon County, GA, The United States

June 07, 1935

Died

March 28, 2012

Website

http://www.harrycrews.com/

Genre

Literature & Fiction

Influences

Mickey Spillane, Graham Greene

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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. Crews is twice divorced and is the father of two sons. His eldest son drowned in 1964.

Crews served in the Korean War and, following the war, enrolled at the University of Florida under the G.I. Bill. After two years of school, Crews set out on an extended road trip. He returned to the University of Florida in 1958. Later, after graduating from the master's program, Crews was denied entrance to the graduate program for Creative Writing. He moved to Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, where he taught English at Broward Communit ...more

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Harry Crews’s books

Average rating: 4.04 · 19,208 ratings · 1,911 reviews · 53 distinct works • Similar authors

	A Feast of Snakes 4.02 avg rating — 4,872 ratings — published 1976 — 28 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Childhood: The Biography of a Place by Harry Crews, Michael McCurdy (Illustrator) 4.36 avg rating — 2,574 ratings — published 1978 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Gospel Singer 4.24 avg rating — 1,609 ratings — published 1968 — 24 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Body 3.88 avg rating — 1,320 ratings — published 1990 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Classic Crews: A Harry Crews Reader 4.36 avg rating — 1,005 ratings — published 1993 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Knockout Artist 3.96 avg rating — 1,104 ratings — published 1988 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Scar Lover 3.75 avg rating — 1,037 ratings — published 1992 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Car by Harry Crews, Maurice Rambaud (Translator) 3.97 avg rating — 784 ratings — published 1972 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Celebration 3.68 avg rating — 713 ratings — published 1998 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	All We Need of Hell: A Novel 3.93 avg rating — 648 ratings — published 1987 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed, done with.”
― Harry Crews

tags: inspirational-quotes

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“That was the only decision there was once upon a time: what to do with the night.”
― Harry Crews, A Feast of Snakes

tags: night, snakes

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“I think all of us are looking for that which does not admit of bullshit . . . If you tell me you can bench press 450, hell, we'll load up the bar and put you under it. Either you can do it or you can't do it—you can't bullshit. Ultimately, sports are just about as close to what one would call the truth as it is possible to get in this world.”
― Harry Crews, Getting Naked with Harry Crews: Interviews

tags: absolutes, bullshit, sports, truth

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What shall we read in October, 2019? - Books published Pre-1980

Jubilee by Margaret Walker

27 votes 35.5%

Outer Dark by Cormac McCarthy

21 votes 27.6%

A Childhood: The Biography of a Place by Harry Crews

15 votes 19.7%

Half in Shadow by Mary Elizabeth Counselman

7 votes 9.2%

Fools' Parade by Davis Grubb

5 votes 6.6%

Better a Dinner of Herbs by Byron Herbert Reece

1 vote 1.3%

76 total votes

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