Hal Crowther

Hal Crowther is an award-winning critic and essayist, a journalist whose work has appeared in Time , Newsweek , Granta , and Narrative magazines, among many others, and in the Oxford American , where his column "Dealer's Choice" was a finalist for a National Magazine Award. His columns and reviews have been published in the New York Times , Washington Post , Atlanta Journal Constitution , Spectator , and many independent weeklies and journals. A recipient of the Baltimore Sun 's Mencken Award...See more

Hal Crowther is an award-winning critic and essayist, a journalist whose work has appeared in Time , Newsweek , Granta , and Narrative magazines, among many others, and in the Oxford American , where his column "Dealer's Choice" was a finalist for a National Magazine Award. His columns and reviews have been published in the New York Times , Washington Post , Atlanta Journal Constitution , Spectator , and many independent weeklies and journals. A recipient of the Baltimore Sun 's Mencken Award for Writing, he is the author of four essay collections and An Infuriating American: The Incendiary Arts of H.L. Mencken. His most recent collection was Freedom Fighters and Hellraisers (Blair, 2018). For his third collection of essays, Gather at the River , he was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle prize for criticism. He lives in Hillsborough, NC, with his wife, novelist Lee Smith. See less