Other essays examine his literary naturalism, the impact on his work of the particular area of southern Georgia from which he hails, and the nature of his relationship with the British novelist Graham Greene, whom Crews long has claimed as one of the writers who influenced him most.Born to sharecropper parents, Harry Crews lived in and writes about a South extremely different from the South of Scarlet O'Hara, William Faulkner, and Flannery O'Connor. Crew's world of the poor white is the place that before Crews wrote about it lacked its own published storytellers. In recent years, however, southern literature has experienced a "white trash renaissance" as writers from poor-white origins have been embraced in the southern cannon. Included here are essays by noted novelists Larry Brown and Tim McLaurin, who acknowledge Crews as a literary ancestor toiling the same fields and as a mentor offering help and encouragement. Rounding out this collection are an interview with Crews, a critical bibliography, and two chapters from Assault of Memory, Crews' work-in-progress and the sequel to A Childhood: The Biography of a Place, his widely acclaimed memoir.
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