Description: The first full-length biography of one of the most unlikely figures in twentieth-century American literature, a writer who emerged from a dirt-poor South Georgia tenant farm and went on to create a singularly unique voice of fiction.
Brief description: TED GELTNER is an associate professor of journalism at Valdosta State University, adviser to the campus newspaper, and author of Last King of the Sports Page: The Life and Career of Jim Murray. He worked for seventeen years as a writer and editor at a number of newspapers, including the Gainesville Sun, the Scranton Times-Tribune and the Ocala Star-Banner.
Review Quotes: Geltner maintains a warm relationship with his subject, allowing Crews' irreverent, raunchy, no-holds-barred personality to swagger forth in delightfully uncensored remarks and observations, many of them unprintable. We see the faces of the demons that compelled him through Geltner's careful anatomy of their origins: the poisonous beginnings, the death of Crews' first son by drowning, and the lifelong, 'relentless feelings of inferiority' that no success could check.--Gina Webb "Atlanta Journal-Constitution"