Harry Crews' Death
Born (Birthday) June 7, 1935
Death Date March 28, 2012
Age of Death 76 years
Cause of Death Peripheral Neuropathy
Place of Death Gainesville, Florida, United States
Profession Novelist
The novelist Harry Crews died at the age of 76. Here is all you want to know, and more!
Biography - A Short Wiki
An American novelist and playwright, he wrote the 1968 novel The Gospel Singer and also published columns and essays in Esquire magazine. His other literary works include The Mulching of America, A Feast of Snakes, and The Gypsy’s Curse.
He served in the U.S. Marines during the Korean War.
He had a tattoo on his arm that featured a line from an E.E. Cummings poem.
How did Harry Crews die?
He was 76. The cause was complications of neuropathy, his former wife, Sally Crews, said.
Quotes
""Survival is triumph enough."
Harry Crews
""What the artist owes the world is his work; not a model for living."
""There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed, done with."
""Teaching, real teaching, is - or ought to be - a messy business."
""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."