Much of his nonfiction has been collected in two books,
Blood and Grits (1979) and
Florida Frenzy (1982); a third collection,
Glimpses into a Keyhole, is planned. His one book-length nonfiction work is
A Childhood: The Biography of a Place (1978), a memoir of his gritty childhood in the hardscrabble back country of Bacon County in rural south Georgia.
Crews's childhood was difficult, even tragic, as he documents memorably in A Childhood. Born on 7 June 1935 to Ray and Myrtice Crews, tenant farmers in Alma, Georgia, on the edge of the Okefenokee swamp, Crews grew up so poor that he sometimes ate clay for its mineral content. When Crews was just twenty months old, his father died, and his mother's subsequent remarriage to another tenant farmer was marred by violence. Crews and his younger brother often fell asleep at night to the sounds of fistfights and crashing furniture.
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