He did not know what love was. And he did not know what good it was. But he knew he carried it around with him, a scabrous spot of rot, of contagion, for which there was no cure.

Crews was the subject of the first installment of the Rough South documentary series written and directed by Gary Hawkins. He publiHarry Crewsd a memoir in 1978 titled A Childhood: The Biography of a Place. In 1964 Patrick Scott drowned in a neighbor's pool.

Death" (from the poem Buffalo Bill's by e. Crews formerly taught in the creative writing program at the University of Florida. The University of Georgia acquired Harry Crews's papers in August 2006.