Hal Crowther
880 Main St, Williamstown, MA 01267, United States
Hal Crowther attended Williams College, where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English.
2950 Broadway, New York, NY 10027, United States
Hal Crowther studied at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, where he earned a Master of Arts degree in Journalism, in 1967.
2013
Hal Crowther and Lee Smith
880 Main St, Williamstown, MA 01267, United States
Hal Crowther attended Williams College, where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English.
2950 Broadway, New York, NY 10027, United States
Hal Crowther studied at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, where he earned a Master of Arts degree in Journalism, in 1967.
Hal Crowther and Lee Smith
Hal Crowther and Lee Smith with their children
Mike Burrows, Lee Smith, Hal Crowther, Sandy Burrows, and Marshall
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One of the nation's finest editorial columnists offers incisive commentary on a variety of issues, taking aim at callous polluters, craven politicians, addle-pated celebrities, image-mongers of every type, in short, everyone who has sold decency and integrity down the river in the name of the almighty dollar.
https://www.amazon.in/Unarmed-But-Dangerous-Withering-Fundamentally/dp/1563521938
1995
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Hal Crowther prides himself on being one of the last generalists in a profession of specialists. His eloquent essays on culture, history, politics, religion, arts, and literature have established him as one of the most influential southern journalists of his generation. Cathedrals of Kudzu represents his ambition to cover the South its writers, politicians, geniuses, saints, villains, and eccentric folkways with the same wide-angle lens H. L. Mencken used to capture all of America in the 1920s. To cover it, in other words, from a judicious distance, but with the ironical bite of his own not inconsiderable prejudices.
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2000
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To read Hal Crowther is to find yourself agreeing with views on topics you never knew you cared so much about. In Gather at the River, Crowther extends the wide-angle vision of Southern life presented in his highly acclaimed collection Cathedrals of Kudzu. He cuts to the heart of recent political, religious, and cultural issues but pauses to appreciate the sweet things that the South has to offer, like music, baseball, great writers, and strong women.
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2005
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Hal Crowther was born on the 26th of March, 1945 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada to American parents and spent his first 12 years at various naval bases, because his father, Harold Baker Crowther, was a naval officer. As a child, he lived in the navy towns of Charleston and Norfolk.
Hal Crowther attended Williams College, where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English. He also studied at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, where he earned a Master of Arts degree in Journalism, in 1967.
Hal Crowther began his career as a staff writer for Time magazine. He was a media columnist and a film and drama critic for the Buffalo News, and associate editor at Newsweek, where he served as television critic and editor of the Media section. He was also a columnist on film and media for The Humanist and Free Inquiry magazines and a regular contributor to the book pages of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Crowther launched his syndicated column in 1981 in the Spectator of Raleigh, North Carolina, where he was executive editor from 1986 to 1989. During the '90s the column originated in The Independent Weekly of Durham. He has written for both film and television, and pens columns for The Independent Weekly and The Progressive Populist.
Hal Crowther published a comprehensive series of essays on the Soviet Union in 1985 and in 1989 covered the fall of the Iron Curtain from Budapest, Prague and Berlin. He wrote powerfully on the Enron scandal, living conditions in Cuba, the 2006 rape charges against the Duke University lacrosse team, and against the war in Iraq.
Hal Crowther's first book, Unarmed but Dangerous: Withering Attacks on All Things Phony, Foolish, and Fundamentally Wrong with America Today, was written in 1995. In 2000, he wrote, Cathedrals of Kudzu: A Persona! Landscape of the South and in 2005, Gather at the River: Notes from the Post-millennial South. His most recent book, Freedom Fighters and Hell Raisers, was published in 2018. Crowther is also a contributor to the 2001 volume Nashville: An American Self-Portrait, which collects commentary from prominent writers and journalists on events and personalities in Nashville, Tennessee, in the year 2000.
Hal Crowther is particularly known as a columnist, film and drama critic, and the author who has filed his trademark personal essays on culture, natural history, and politics.
Crowther’s column originated in The Independent Weekly won the Baltimore Sun's H.L. Mencken Writing Award in 1989. In 1998 it won another national award, the AAN (American Association of Newsweeklies) first prize for commentary, shared with Nat Hentoff of the Village Voice.
In 2000 Crowther received a career prize, the Russell J. Jandoli Award for Excellence in Journalism from St. Bonaventure University. For Dealer's Choice, his column on southern letters and culture in the Oxford American, Crowther was a 2002 finalist for the National Magazine Award in the commentary. Most recently Crowther has won a 2018 Pushcart Prize for Christian Soldiers, published in Narrative Magazine. Additionally, he received a 2014 Pushcart Prize for non-fiction with his essay Out of Date: The Joys of Obsolescence.
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2000
Quotations:
"Swollen corporations rule more or less unchallenged. When a big one falls as Enron fell, it's like a missing tooth in the blinding corporate smile that mesmerizes America. For a moment anyone who cares to look can see all the infection and corruption in the hungry mouth that threatens to swallow us whole. Expect a brief glimpse, before the Big Smile is repaired by the best oral surgeons money can buy. But what we see, and the way we respond to what we see is more critical to America's survival than the fate of a million Islamic terrorists".
"If there ever was a deal-breaker, a faith-breaker between a president and the people who elected him (or, in this case, allowed him to take office when his election was in question), it's this bloody-minded travesty of a war that Bush concocted out of far-Right obsessions and cooked intelligence, lied flagrantly to legitimize and then pursued to such a tragic, pitiful cul-de-sac. Such poor judgment yoked to such abysmal incompetence is unprecedented in all presidential history known to me".
Hal Crowther is married to Lee Smith. They have one daughter, Amity, and one stepson, Page Seay.
Lee Smith was born on the 1st of November, 1944. She is an American fiction author. Smith has written 15 works of fiction including Oral History, Fair and Tender Ladies, and her most recent work, On Agate Hill. The Last Girls was a 2002 New York Times bestseller, as well as winner of the Southern Book Critics Circle Award. A retired professor of English at North Carolina State University, she has received many awards including the North Carolina Award for Literature and an Academy Award in Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
