Harry Crews

Born on June 7, 1935 in Bacon County Georgia, Harry Crews has become a preeminent novelists of the 'southern gothic' genre. His straight narrative style has been labled 'fast, mean, dangerous, extraordinarily violent' and the bizarre characters of his novels expose the social realities of the postmodern south.

Those who haven't read Crews might begin with his 1978 autobiography 'A Childhood: The Biography Of A Place' which concludes with; "I had already done what, in Bacon County, was unthinkable. I had cursed the sun. And in Bacon County you don't curse the sun or the rain or the land or God. They are all the same thing. To curse any of them is an ultimate blasphemy. I had known that three years ago, but in three years I had somehow managed to forget it. I stood there feeling how much I had left this place and these people, and at the same time knowing that it would be forever impossible to leave them completely. Wherever I might go in the world, they would go with me." The characters that populate his novels; freaks and outcasts who've run out of options in a fractured world, were born in the swamps of Bacon County.

"You spend most of your time thinking about, meditating upon, trying to dissect and understand just those aspects of the human animal that other human beings try their damndest never to thing about.", Harry Crews.