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Harry (Eugene) Crews | | Variant Name: |
Harry (Eugene) Crews, Harry Eugene Crews | | Birth Date: |
June 6, 1935 | | Nationality: |
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 Biography of Harry (Eugene) Crews
7,341 words, approx. 25 pages
 Harry Crews has primarily written novels -- his thirteenth was published in 1992 -- though he has also authored a highly acclaimed autobiography and many essays. One of the most original and provocative writers of the contemporary South, he creates... summary from source:
Biography of Harry (Eugene) Crews
4,587 words, approx. 15 pages
Though best known for his often-bizarre Southern fiction populated by an array of deformed, grotesque characters, Harry Crews has, between novels, turned to journalism, producing essays filled with an equally unusual cast of true-to-life eccentrics:... summary from source:
Biography of Harry (Eugene) Crews
3,087 words, approx. 10 pages
Harry Crews is the author of ten books--eight novels (the first published in 1968), an autobiography, and a collection of magazine nonfiction pieces. He is one of the most original, prolific, uneven, and compelling novelists of the Southern post-Styron... 
Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 Harry Crews Information
386 words, approx. 1 pages
 Harry Crews (b. June 7 , 1935 ) is an American novelist , short story writer and essayist. He was born in Bacon County, Georgia in 1935 and served in the Marines during the Korean War . He attended the University of Florida on the GI Bill , but dropped...
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Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Frank W. Shelton
2,912 words, approx. 10 pages
Crews is a very powerful, at times even outlandish, and uneven novelist. In the tradition of Erskine Caldwell and Flannery O'Connor in his use of the grotesque, Crews has faced directly the problem of encroachment of modernism on the traditional Southern ways of life. He shows in compelling, and often bizarre and violent detail the consequences for modern Southerners of living lives stripped of sustaining tradition and meaning. Crews is ambivalent toward his Southernness…. Crews, interesting a... summary from source:
Critical Essay by Allen Shepherd
1,639 words, approx. 6 pages
Harry Crews's novels … are fast, mean, dangerous, extraordinarily violent, and often horrifyingly funny…. 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. Bizarre and grotesque as his conceptions often are, they are usually surprisingly plausible and consistent: given these people in this situation (large givens), it all foll... summary from source:
Critical Essay by Shaun O'connell
1,464 words, approx. 5 pages
[Crew's] works, seen together, testify to his leaping imagination, his mission to make us see. We must see first that his books are imps of the perverse. The Gospel Singer [features a Freak Fair]…. In a way these tent shows are like Harry Crews's novels, each more freakish than the last. Yet his escalation of perversion is balanced by a deepening of compassionate wonder at all that can be contained in the human. As he said in a recent Times interview, "I can say more about what t...
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