Harry Crews

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Harry Eugene Crews (born June 7, 1935 in Bacon County , Georgia , † March 28, 2012 in Gainesville , Florida ) was an American writer , who was already known through his debut novel The Gospel Singer (1968) and in his In some autobiographical books, he often describes grotesque characters and is considered a representative of the biting satirical literature of the southern states (“ Southern Gothic ”).

Life

After attending school, Crews, who grew up in difficult and poor family circumstances in rural Georgia, did his military service in the US Marine Corps during the Korean War . He then studied at the University of Florida and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (BA).

In 1968 he published his debut novel The Gospel Singer , and already in this book he described numerous freaky, unsaved and broken characters. This work was followed by numerous other novels such as Car (1972), and in which Crews described a man who ate his car in small portions. In the published 1976 book A Feast of Snakes he wrote an annual forming rattlesnakes - Rodeo , which takes a whole village caught.

Crews, who repeatedly by excesses due to his alcoholism noticed described his own life in his 1978 under the title A Childhood: The Biography of a Place published memoirs . In addition to numerous other novels, some of which were also published in German translation , Classic Crews: A Harry Crews Reader (1993) also published an anthology and the two novellas Where Does One Go When There's No Place Left to Go? (1995) and An American Family: The Baby with the Curious Markings (2006).

In addition to his literary activities crews also worked as a lecturer in literature and creative writing at Broward Community College in Broward County in Florida and at the Wright State University in Dayton active.

He also played two supporting roles , one in Indian Runner (1991) by Sean Penn with David Morse , Viggo Mortensen and Charles Bronson and himself in the documentary Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus (2003) by Andrew Douglas .

Lydia Lunch and Kim Gordon named after him, the hardcore punk - band Harry Crews and also the 1989 published music album Naked in Garden Hills .

Publications

  • The Gospel Singer , 1968
  • Naked in Garden Hills , 1969
  • This Thing Don't Lead to Heaven , 1970
  • Karate is a Thing of the Spirit , 1971
  • Car , 1972
  • The Hawk is Dying , 1973
  • The Gypsy's Curse , 1974
  • A Feast of Snakes , 1976
  • A Childhood: The Biography of a Place , 1978
  • The Enthusiast , 1981
  • All We Need of Hell , 1987
  • The Knockout Artist , 1988
  • Body , 1990
  • Scar Lover , 1992
  • Classic Crews: A Harry Crews Reader , 1993
  • The Mulching of America , 1995
  • Where Does One Go When There's No Place Left to Go? , 1995
  • Celebration , 1998
  • An American Family: The Baby with the Curious Markings , 2006
in German language
  • Der Fluch , original title: The Gypsy's Curse , Verlag Mox and Maritz, Bremen 2006, ISBN 978-3-934790-11-7
  • Naked in Garden Hills , original title: Naked in Garden Hills , Verlag Mox and Maritz, Bremen 2009, ISBN 978-3-934790-13-1
  • Scar Lover , original title: Scar Lover , Verlag Mox and Maritz, Bremen 2009, ISBN 978-3-934790-16-2
  • Florida Forever , original title Celebration , Verlag WALDE + GRAF bei Metrolit, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-8493-0101-9

literature

  • Michael Hargraves: Harry Crews: A Bibliography , Greenwood, 1986
  • Erik Bledsoe (Editor): Getting Naked with Harry Crews: Interviews , University Presses of Florida, 1999
  • Erik Bledsoe (Editor): Perspectives on Harry Crews , University Press of Mississippi, 2001

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personal data
SURNAME Crews, Harry
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Crews, Harry Eugene (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 7, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Bacon County , Georgia
DATE OF DEATH March 28, 2012
Place of death Gainesville , Florida