Harry Crews (born June 7, 1935) is an American novelist, playwright, short story writer and essayist. He was born in Bacon County, Georgia in 1935 and served ...
So read the tattoo that the rowdy Georgia-born novelist Harry Crews had inked beneath a skull on his right arm the phrase comes from an E.E. Cummings poem and that he liked to be photographed displaying.
Harry Crews, an author best known for his tales of the rural South, died Wednesday in Gainesville, Fla., according to the Associated Press. The "A Childhood" writer was 76 and had suffered from neuropathy.
boiling water, confining him to his bed for months. Still, he managed to become the first member of his family to graduate from high school, after which he joined the Marine Corps. In the book Getting Naked with Harry Crews, he explained to interviewer Hank Nuwer that his military service was crucial.