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SUMMARY:Maine Writers Series: Hall Crowther
DESCRIPTION:"I don't have any children\, so I've decided to claim all the f
 uture freedom-fighters and hell-raisers as my kin\," wrote journalist Moll
 y Ivins. Ivins is one of the biggest hell-raisers profiled in this collect
 ion of essays by Hal Crowther\, but there is plenty hell-raising and freed
 om-fighting to go around. Crowther is a writer whose own career is marked 
 by sharp political and social commentary in the pages of national and regi
 onal outlets\, from Time to the Atlanta Constitution to The Oxford America
 n. In Freedom Fighters and Hell Raisers\, he turns his attention to the be
 st and the brightest of the recently departed generation in the South.\n\n
 Hal Crowther is a journalist and essayist whose work has appeared in Time\
 , Newsweek\, the Atlanta Journal Constitution\, The Oxford American\, Gran
 ta\, the Independent\, the Progressive Populist\, and other independent we
 eklies around the country. He is the author of four books of essays: An In
 furiating American: The Incendiary Arts of H.L. Mencken\; Gather at the Ri
 ver\; Cathedrals of Kudzu\; and Unarmed but Dangerous: A Withering Attack 
 on All Things Phony\, Foolish\, and Fundamentally Wrong with America Today
 . Crowther is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize\, the Lillian Smith Book A
 ward\, and the Book of the Year award for essays from Foreward Reviews. He
  has been named a finalist for the Magazine Award and for the National Boo
 k Critics Circle prize for criticism and for nonfiction. He lives in Hills
 borough\, NC\, with his wife\, novelist Lee Smith.  (Blair Publishing)\n\
 nCo-sponsored with Compass Rose Books. Made possible thanks to generous su
 pport from the Rose and Samuel Rudman Library Trust/MCF and Witherle Frien
 ds of the Library\n\nThe Reading Room
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