Harry Crews dies at 76; Southern writer with darkly comic vision

Harry Crews, a rough-hewn Southerner who drew a keen following with novels that describe a Hieronymus Bosch landscape of grotesques — characters who are tossed into rattlesnake pits, walk on their hands, croon lullabies to a skull and literally eat a car — died Wednesday in Gainesville, Fla. He was 76.

By Elaine Woo, Los Angeles Times

April 1, 2012