Hal Crowther is a graduate of
Williams College and the Columbia University Graduate School of
Journalism. He has been a media columnist, a film, drama and television
critic, a staff writer and editor for publications such as the
Buffalo News, Time, Newsweek, The
Humanist,
and Free Inquiry magazines. He has also been a regular
contributor to the book pages of The
Atlanta Journal-Constitution. In 1992 his syndicated column
received the Baltimore Sun’s H. L. Mencken Writing
Award, the first weekly column honored, and in 1998 it won the
American
Association of
Newsweeklies first prize for commentary, shared with Nat Hentoff
of the Village Voice. “Dealer's Choice,” Crowther's
column on southern letters and culture, has been featured in The
Oxford
American since 1994. He also writes a column for The Progressive
Populist, out of Austin, Texas. His collections of essays
include Gather At The River: Notes From The Post-millennial
South (2005) and Cathedrals
of Kudzu: A Personal Landscape of the South (2000), both from
Louisiana State University Press, and Unarmed
But Dangerous (Longstreet Press, 1995).
Cathedrals of Kudzu won the Lillian Smith Book Award for Commentary,
the 1999-2001
Fellowship Prize for Non-Fiction from the Fellowship of Southern
Writers and the 2001 first prize for essays from Foreword Magazine.
Crowther received the 2000 Russell J. Jandoli Award for Excellence
in Journalism from St. Bonaventure University. His essays have
been published in many anthologies, including Novello:
Ten Years of Great American Writing (2000). Crowther lives
in North Carolina with his wife, the novelist Lee Smith. ![](../../images/bug.gif)
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