← Harry CrewsThe Hawk Is Dyingby Harry CrewsFind on Amazon↗About the authorHarry CrewsHarry Crews wrote savage, tragicomic novels about grotesques and outsiders in the rural South, drawing on his impoverished Georgia childhood with unsparing honesty. A Childhood: The Biography of a Place is his celebrated memoir.More by Harry CrewsA Feast of SnakesGrotesque novel of violence and obsession in rural Florida→Car→Gospel Singer→A Childhood: The Biography of a PlaceMemoir of hardship and resilience in rural Georgia childhood→