Hal Crowther at Next FOL Lecture, Monday
Hal Crowther, Photo contributed by Sandy Stover
Syndicated columnist and essayist Hal Crowther is the next lecturer in this season’s Friends of the Key West Library lecture series—Monday, February 3, 6:00 p.m., Studios of Key West, 600 White Street. Doors open at 5:30 p.m.
Crowther will discuss his current project, a book about the famous American journalist and satirist H. L. Mencken. Earlier books by Crowther, which include Gather at the River: Notes from the Post-Millennial South (2005) and Cathedrals of Kudzu: A Personal Landscape of the South (2000), along with his numerous essays in publications such as Oxford American, Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Progressive Populist,have established his reputation as “part curmudgeon, part humorist and all Southerner”—a writer whose “rollicking, raucous essays offer probing insights into the mind and manners of the New South”. (Publishers Weekly)
Born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, educated at Williams College and Columbia University, employed in earlier years at Time and Newsweek, married to novelist Lee Smith, Crowther is winner of the H. L. Mencken Award (Baltimore Sun), the Lillian Smith Book Award and the Fellowship of Southern Writers Award for Nonfiction.
The Friends of the Key West Library weekly lecture series is free and open to the public. Seating is available on a first come, first served basis. This year’s lectures are every Monday, ending on March 17. Next lecturer is mystery writer John Leslie, February 10. FOL’s newsletter, including a list of future lecturers, is located at http://friendsofthekeywestlibrary.org