Harry Crews Interview

Writer Harry Crews is considered controversial because of his fascination with the grotesque - his novels are peopled with characters that could be called "freaks." In this 1983 interview, Crews speaks of his family's travels, the uniqueness of the South, and his wariness at being pigeonholed as a Southern writer. His memoir about growing up in Bacon County, Georgia, during the Depression, A The Biography of a Place, won a Pushcart Prize and made the New York Times list of the 10 best nonfiction books in 1981.