Harry Crews

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born

June 07, 1935 in Bacon County, GA, The United States

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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Average rating: 3.96 · 4,931 ratings · 462 reviews · 30 distinct works

	A Feast of Snakes 4.03 avg rating — 1,067 ratings — published 1976 — 8 editions	My rating:
	Body 3.89 avg rating — 415 ratings — published 1990 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Classic Crews: A Harry Crews Reader 4.25 avg rating — 371 ratings — published 1993	My rating:
	A Childhood: The Biography of a Place by Harry Crews, Michael McCurdy (Illustrator) 4.36 avg rating — 343 ratings — published 1978 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Knockout Artist 3.92 avg rating — 381 ratings — published 1988 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Scar Lover 3.76 avg rating — 358 ratings — published 1992 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Celebration 3.56 avg rating — 293 ratings — published 1998 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Car 4.00 avg rating — 230 ratings — published 1972 — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Gospel Singer 4.22 avg rating — 209 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Mulching of America: A Novel by Harry Crews, Karolina Harris (Designed by) 3.49 avg rating — 228 ratings — published 1995 — 2 editions	My rating:

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Quotes by Harry Crews

“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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“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

39 people liked it

“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

24 people liked it

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