Harry Crews collection, 1986-1990.

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Harry Crews collection, 1986-1990.

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The collection consists of six typed letters to Dr. Melvyn New, signed by Harry Crews; one index card with mss note from Harry Crews to Melvyn New, beginning "Thank you for the kind words about Body"; eight photocopied published reviews of Body by Harry Crews, one of them (Chicago Tribune, August 27, 1990) inscribed, "Mell: if not for you, we both know this book might never have been written [...] Not to shabby for an old drunk written off as finished, eh?"; Blood Issue: A Drama in Two Acts by Harry Crews, loose (unbound) typescript, 95 leaves, and another copy loose (unbound) typescript, 107 leaves; ALS on lime green paper, Harry Crews to Mel (Dr. Melvyn New), 12/21/88 ("New version of the play. I wanted you to have a copy [...]); Blood Issue: A Drama in Two Acts by Harry Crews, running title dated 12/15/89. Bound, 113 leaves, inscribed "For Mel, Live long and well, friend, Harry Crews." Loose (unbound) typescript, 95 leaves.

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Crews, Harry, 1935-2012

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Harry Crews is a prolific novelist whose often freakish characters populate a strange, violent, and darkly humorous South. He is also the author of a widely lauded memoir, A Childhood: The Biography of a Place, about growing up poor in rural south Georgia. Crews has focused much of his work on the poor white South, influencing a growing number of younger writers to do the same, including Larry Brown and Tim McLaurin. Harry Eugene Crews was born in Bacon County on June 7, 1935, the second of two ...

New, Melvyn

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