Frederick Crews Explained

Frederick Crews
Birth Date:20 February 1933
Birth Place:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Death Place:Oakland, California, U.S.
Education:Yale University (BA)
Princeton University (PhD)

Frederick Campbell Crews (February 20, 1933 – June 21, 2024) was an American essayist and literary critic. Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley,[1] Crews was the author of numerous books, including The Tragedy of Manners: Moral Drama in the Later Novels of Henry James (1957), E. M. Forster: The Perils of Humanism (1962), and The Sins of the Fathers: Hawthorne's Psychological Themes (1966), a discussion of the work of Nathaniel Hawthorne. He received popular attention for The Pooh Perplex (1963), a book of satirical essays parodying various schools of literary criticism. Initially a proponent of psychoanalytic literary criticism, Crews later rejected psychoanalysis, becoming a critic of Sigmund Freud and his scientific and ethical standards. Crews was a prominent participant in the "Freud wars" of the 1980s and 1990s, a debate over the reputation, scholarship, and impact on the 20th century of Freud, who founded psychoanalysis. In 2017, he published Freud: The Making of an Illusion.

Crews published a variety of skeptical and rationalist essays, including book reviews and commentary for The New York Review of Books, on a variety of topics including Freud and recovered memory therapy, some of which were published in The Memory Wars (1995). He also published successful handbooks for college writers, such as The Random House Handbook.

Life and career

Personal life and death

Crews was born in suburban Philadelphia on February 10, 1933.[2] [3] Both his parents were avid readers and were quite influential in his life, said Crews: "They had both been raised in considerable poverty, and books had been extremely important to them personally, in shaping them. My mother was very literary; my father was very scientific. I feel that I got a little something of both sides."[4] In high school, Crews was co-captain of the tennis team, and for decades he remained an avid skier, hiker, swimmer, and runner. Crews lived in Berkeley with his wife, Elizabeth Crews, a photographer who was born and raised in Berkeley, California. They had two daughters and four grandchildren.

Crews died in Oakland, California on June 21, 2024, at the age of 91.[5] [6]

Education

Crews completed his undergraduate education at Yale University in 1955.[7] Though his degree was in English, Crews entered the Directed Studies program during his first two years at Yale, which he describes as his greatest experience because the program was taught by a coordinated faculty and required students to distribute their courses among sciences, social sciences, literature, and philosophy.[4] He received his PhD in literature from Princeton University in 1958.[7] Crews cited Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Friedrich Nietzsche, Hawthorne, and Freud as major influences during his time at Princeton.[4]

Career

In 1958, Crews joined the UC Berkeley English Department, where he taught for 36 years before retiring as its chair in 1994.[8] He was a Fulbright scholar with a lectureship at University of Turin in Italy for the 1961–1962 academic year.[9]

Crews was an anti-war activist from 1965 to about 1970[4] and advocated draft resistance as co-chair of Berkeley's Faculty Peace Committee. Though he shared the widespread assumption during the mid-1960s that psychoanalytic theory was a valid account of human motivation and was one of the first academics to apply that theory systematically to the study of literature, Crews gradually came to regard psychoanalysis as a pseudoscience. This convinced him that his loyalty should not belong to any theory but rather to empirical standards and the skeptical point of view. Throughout his career, Crews brought his concern for rational discourse to the study of various issues, from the controversy over recovered memory, the credibility of the Rorschach test, and belief in alien abductions to Theosophy and "intelligent design." He also advocated for clear writing based on standards of sound argument and rhetorical effectiveness rather than adherence to rigid school-book rules.[10] "What interests me is general rationality," said Crews in an interview:

Publications

Satire

In 1963, Crews published his first bestseller The Pooh Perplex: A Student Casebook that satirized the type of casebooks then assigned to first-year university students in introductory literature and composition courses. The book featured a fictitious set of English professors writing essays on A. A. Milne's classic character Winnie-the-Pooh, parodying Marxist, Freudian, Christian, Leavisite and Fiedlerian approaches to analyzing literary texts. Though urged by readers to publish a follow-up volume, Crews delayed writing one until after his retirement in 1994, producing Postmodern Pooh in 2001. While The Pooh Perplex parodies earlier trends in literary criticism, Postmodern Pooh parodies later trends in literary theory.[11] In it, Crews extends the satire of the original, covering more recent critical approaches such as deconstruction, feminism, queer theory, and recovered memory therapy, in part basing the essay authors and their approaches on actual academics and their work.[7]

In The Patch Commission (1968), Crews satirized the activities of Presidential Commissions, displaying his disapproval of American involvement in the then-ongoing Vietnam War.[12] [13] The book is a transcription of the work of the fictional Patch Commission, a discussion among three government commissioners attempting to save the nation from disaster caused by pediatrician Benjamin Spock's overly permissive child-rearing guidelines.[14]

Literary criticism

Much of Crews's career was dedicated to literary criticism. Crews's first book, The Tragedy of Manners: Moral Drama in the Later Novels of Henry James (1957), was based on a prize-winning essay written by Crews while an undergraduate student at Yale University, initially published as part of a series.[15] [16] In the book, Crews discussed three late novels by Henry James: The Ambassadors (1903), The Wings of the Dove (1902), and The Golden Bowl (1904), analyzing how, in those novels, adherence to social conventions serves to keep hidden relationships from coming to light.[15] [17]

In 1962, Crews's doctoral dissertation from Princeton University was published as E. M. Forster: The Perils of Humanism.[18] In 1966, he published a study of Hawthorne, The Sins of the Fathers: Hawthorne's Psychological Themes, in which he examined Hawthorne's entire literary career including unfinished novels; it was re-issued in 1989 with Crews's reassessment of his initial position and an analysis of how literary criticism had dealt with Hawthorne since 1966.[19] [20] In 1970, Crews edited Psychoanalysis and Literary Process, a collection of essays by his students that analyzed a variety of authors from a psychoanalytic perspective; a review by Jose Barchilon credited the book with important accomplishments, including being "an achievement in the teaching and learning of psychoanalysis in a department of literature", which the reviewer noted was a "rare occurrence".[21] [22] The collection included an essay, "Anaesthetic Criticism," in which Crews disparaged contemporary schools of literary criticism, especially that of Northrop Frye and his followers.[23]

In 1986, Crews published The Critics Bear It Away, which was wholly devoted to literary criticism.[24] It was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award for nonfiction[25] and won the Spielvogel-Diamonstein Award for the Art of the Essay.[26]

Parts of Crews's 1975 collection Out of My System,[27] the 1986 collection Skeptical Engagements,[28] and the 2006 Follies of the Wise[29] were also dedicated to literary criticism. Crews's repeated message to literary critics is to be critical of their own interpretation when making statements about the meaning of a work.[4] Regarding Crews's position on literary criticism, C. A. Runcie notes, "What Frederick Crews says about psychoanalysis is true for all criticism and its theorizing: 'A critic's sense of limits, like Freud's own, must come from … his awe at how little he can explain.'"[30] Crews has been identified by the literary theorist Joseph Carroll as one of "the very few scholars who have consistently and effectively opposed poststructuralism."[31]

Criticism of Freud and psychoanalysis

Crews began his career using psychoanalytic literary criticism but gradually rejected this approach and psychoanalysis in general. In his article "Reductionism and Its Discontents", published in Out of My System in 1975, Crews stated his belief that psychoanalysis can be usefully applied to literary criticism but expressed growing doubts about its use as a therapeutic approach, suggesting that it had a weak, sometimes comical tradition of criticism.[27] In 1977, Crews read the draft of a work by the philosopher Adolf Grünbaum that later became The Foundations of Psychoanalysis, and helped Grünbaum to obtain a publication offer from the University of California Press.[32] In 1996, Crews credited the psychiatrist Henri F. Ellenberger's The Discovery of the Unconscious (1970) with beginning a twenty-five-year-long reevaluation of the position of psychoanalysis within the history of medicine, and acknowledged other book-length critical analyses of Freud and psychotherapy, including Frank Sulloway's Freud, Biologist of the Mind (1979), Grünbaum's The Foundations of Psychoanalysis (1984), and Malcolm Macmillan's Freud Evaluated: The Completed Arc (1991).[33] Crews wrote the foreword to the revised 1997 edition of Freud Evaluated, suggesting that its republication "advanced the long debate over psychoanalysis to what may well be its decisive moment".[34]

Crews, who described himself as "a one-time Freudian who had decided to help others resist the fallacies to which I had succumbed in the 1960s",[35] sees his criticisms of Freud as two-pronged – one aimed at Freud's ethical and scientific standards, and the other aimed at showing that psychoanalysis is a pseudoscience.[36] [37]

The ″Freud Wars″

Crews rejected psychoanalysis entirely in his article "Analysis Terminable" (first published in Commentary in July 1980 and reprinted in his collection Skeptical Engagements in 1986), citing what he considered its faulty methodology, its ineffectiveness as therapy, and the harm it caused to patients.[28] In 1985, Crews reviewed The Foundations of Psychoanalysis in The New Republic.[38]

Two of Crews's essays, "Analysis Terminable" and "The Unknown Freud," (the latter published in 1993), have been described as shots fired during the "Freud Wars," a long-running debate over Freud's reputation, work and impact.[39] [40] "The Unknown Freud" prompted an unprecedented number of letters to The New York Review of Books for several issues.[35]

Crews went on to criticize Freud and psychoanalysis extensively, becoming a major figure in the discussions and criticisms of Freud that occurred during the 1980s and 1990s. Crews was one of almost fifty signatories of a petition submitted by Freud historian Peter Swales to the Library of Congress requesting that a Freud exhibition the Library had planned be rendered less one-sided; the protests evidently delayed the exhibit's opening by two years.[41] [42] [43] Eli Zaretsky, who identifies Crews as one of Freud's most prominent critics, writes that Crews's challenges to Freud and psychoanalysis have gone largely unanswered.[44] [45]

Biography of Freud

Crews's Freud: The Making of an Illusion was published in August 2017.[46] Crews's research into letters that Freud wrote to Martha Bernays revealed that Freud's use of cocaine "was more severe and far longer-lasting than previously known. It significantly affected his writing, marriage, moods, and treatment assessments." The letters also revealed that Freud's daughter Anna and his biographer Ernest Jones covered up treatments that were ineffective.[47] Crews traces the steps by which Freud was constrained to pursue a medical career, reveals how he overrode therapeutic failures by advancing dubious theoretical claims, and ends by exploring the authoritarian means by which he guided a movement lacking an empirical foundation. The psychiatrist E. Fuller Torrey concluded: "The culmination of more than 40 years of research ... [, it] is doubtful whether it will be surpassed as a scholarly work on Freud as a person or on the origin of his ideas."[48]

Criticism of recovered memory therapy

In 1993 and 1994, Crews wrote a series of critical essays and reviews of books relating to repressed and recovered memories,[49] which also provoked heated debate and letters to the editors of The New York Review of Books.[35] The essays, along with critical and supporting letters and his responses, were published as The Memory Wars (1995).[50] Crews believes the "memories" of childhood seduction Freud reported were not real memories but constructs that Freud created and forced upon his patients. According to Crews, the seduction theory that Freud abandoned in the late 1890s acted as a precedent and contributing factor to the wave of false allegations of childhood sexual abuse in the 1980s and 1990s.[51]

Crews was a member of the now-disbanded False Memory Syndrome Foundation's advisory board[52] and was described as "leading a backlash against recovered memory therapy."[53]

Other interests

Writing handbooks

In 1974, Crews published The Random House Handbook, a best-selling college composition textbook that offered extensive rhetorical advice for writing academic essays as well as reference information on correct and effective use of the English language. The book brought together two aspects of writing instruction not generally covered in a single text. It was widely praised for being highly readable and helpful and was written in a clear, often elegant style, with occasional flashes of humor, something rare in college writing handbooks then or now.[54] It was also highly successful,[55] running to six editions. Crews also co-authored three editions of The Borzoi Handbook for Writers for McGraw-Hill.[56]

Advocacy for the innocence of Jerry Sandusky

Up to his death on June 21, Crews continued to advocate for Jerry Sandusky in the belief that Jerry Sandusky is an innocent man. In recent years, Crews has written articles such as "A Shower of Lies and the Mess at Penn State"[57] and "The Sandusky Case is Exactly opposite to What the Public Believes: The Case Against Jerry Sandusky Revisited".[58]

His last interview on this topic was with the Daily Mail reporter Emma James as part of recent articles revisiting the Sandusky conviction in light of new evidence and a June 26, 2024 appeal hearing.[59]

Crews' advocacy for justice in this case has been documented in a June 25 article on the Frank Report website titled "Berkeley Professor, Best Selling Author, Dr. Frederick Crews Had Died, His Last Message Was of Jerry Sandusky's Innocence".

Crews was motivated to defend Sandusky after reading The Most Hated Man in America: Jerry Sandusky and the Rush to Judgement by Mark Pendegrass. The book titled served as the basis for Crews' submission to Skeptic Magazine, "Trial by Therapy: The Jerry Sandusky Case Revisited".[60] Crews expanded on his thoughts in the case in an interview with John Ziegler on the World According to Zig podcast in October 2019.[61]

The New York Review of Books

In his capacity as a reviewer for The New York Review of Books, Crews wrote on various topics including:

Cybereditions

Crews served on the editorial board of Cybereditions,[68] a print on demand publishing company founded by Denis Dutton in 2000.[69]

Honors and awards

Bibliography

As author

As editor

As contributor

External links

Interviews

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Frederick C. Crews, Emeritus – Staff page at UC, Berkeley . . February 19, 2009 . July 8, 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150708184022/http://english.berkeley.edu/profiles/87 . live .
  2. Book: Profile of Frederick Campbell Crews . 978-1-85743-428-6 . November 17, 2018 . June 25, 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240625142720/https://books.google.com/books?id=7bYRAQAAMAAJ&q=Frederick+Campbell+Crews+20+Feb.+1933 . live . Publications . Europa . August 23, 2007 . Routledge .
  3. Fuchs, Jake (Mar 28, 2006). "Books: Crews Skewers Follies of the Wise in New Collection" The Berkeley Daily Planet.
  4. Kreisler, H. (Interviewer) & Crews, F. (Interviewee). (1999). "Criticism and the Empirical Attitude: Conversation with Frederick Crews" [Interview transcript] . Retrieved from Conversations with History; Institute of International Studies, University of California, Berkeley Web site.
  5. Web site: Frederick Crews, Withering Critic of Freud's Legacy, Dies at 91. Scott. Veale. The New York Times. June 24, 2024. June 24, 2024. June 25, 2024. https://web.archive.org/web/20240625142612/https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/24/books/frederick-crews-dead.html. live.
  6. News: Smith . Harrison . Frederick Crews, literary critic and steely Freud skeptic, dies at 91 . June 29, 2024 . Washington Post . June 28, 2024.
  7. Web site: Lit crit Frederick Crews *58, author of The Pooh Perplex, pokes the Academy once more with his new book, Postmodern Pooh . Marcus . D . January 30, 2002 . April 28, 2009 . .
  8. Web site: Details for: Frederick C. Crews . . April 27, 2009 . July 8, 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150708184022/http://english.berkeley.edu/profiles/87 . live .
  9. Web site: Frederick Crews . Fulbright Scholar Program, fulbrightscholars.org . June 29, 2024.
  10. Book: Crews, FC . Follies of the Wise: Dissenting Essays . 2005 . 220 . 1-59376-101-5 . Shoemaker & Hoard .
  11. Giffin, M. (2012). "Literary academics are full of pooh." Quadrant, LVI(1–2), 25–29.
  12. Book: Crews, FC . The Patch Commission . registration . . 1968 . ASIN B001SUMQ08
  13. Erickson . P . The Critics Bear It Away: American Fiction and the Academy – book reviews . April 27, 2009 . 1993 . Criticism .
  14. . August 2, 1968 . April 28, 2009 . Anti-Youth Movements . https://web.archive.org/web/20121103043529/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,838527-1,00.html . dead . November 3, 2012 .
  15. Book: Carlson SJ . Women of grace: James's plays and the comedy of manners . UMI Research Press . Ann Arbor, Mich . 1985 . 5 . 0-8357-1617-1 .
  16. The Tragedy of Manners: Moral Drama in the Later Novels of Henry James . Yale University. Undergraduate Prize Essays . 1958 . 10 . Crews . FC . Yale University Press.
  17. Book: Simon L . The Critical Reception of Henry James: Creating a Master (Literary Criticism in Perspective) (Literary Criticism in Perspective) . Camden House . Columbia, SC, USA . 2007 . 78 . 978-1-57113-319-9 .
  18. Book: Crews, FC . E. M. Forster: The Perils of Humanism . . 1962 . 0-7581-5768-1 . vii .
  19. Book: Crews, Frederick C. . The Sins of the Fathers: Hawthorne's Psychological Themes . . Berkeley . 1989 . 0-520-06817-3 .
  20. Book: Frederick Crews - The Sins of the Fathers . October 1989 . . 978-0-520-06817-9 . April 29, 2009 . June 25, 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240625125422/https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520068179/the-sins-of-the-fathers . live .
  21. Book: Tompkins, Jane P. . Reader-response criticism: from formalism to post-structuralism . registration . Johns Hopkins University Press . Baltimore . 1980 . 0-8018-2401-X .
  22. Barchilon . J . Book Review: Psychoanalysis and Literary Process: Edited by Frederick Crews . The Psychoanalytic Quarterly . 42 . 644–51 . 1973 . April 29, 2009 . June 25, 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240625125418/https://pep-web.org/browse/document/paq.042.0644a . live .
  23. Stern . HR . 1973 . 60 . The Psychoanalytic Review . 304–5 . Book Review: Psychoanalysis and Literary Process. Frederick Crews (ed.). . April 29, 2009 . June 25, 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240625125418/https://pep-web.org/browse/document/psar.060.0304a . live .
  24. Book: Crews, FC . The Critics Bear It Away: American Fiction and the Academy . . 1992 . 0-679-40413-9 .
  25. News: . Critics nominate best books of '92 . January 19, 1993 . April 29, 2009 . C.6 .
  26. Web site: Spielvogel-Diamonstein Award for the Art of the Essay Winners . February 19, 2009 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090316093958/http://www.pen.org/page.php/prmID/907 . March 16, 2009 .
  27. Book: Crews, FC . Out of My System: Psychoanalysis, Ideology, and Critical Method . . 1975 . 0-19-501947-4 .
  28. Book: Crews, FC . Skeptical Engagements . . 0-19-503950-5 . 1986 .
  29. Book: Crews, FC . Follies of the Wise: Dissenting Essays . 2005 . 1-59376-101-5 . Shoemaker & Hoard .
  30. Runcie, C. A. (1990). "Dignifying Signifying: A Meditation on Interpretation." The Journal of the Sydney University Arts Association, 15, 71–86.
  31. Carroll . Joseph . Evolution and Literary Theory . Human Nature . Columbia, Missouri . 6 . 2 . 1995 . 119–134 . 0-8262-0979-3 . University of Missouri Press . registration . 24202937 . 10.1007/BF02734174 . 206821344 .
  32. Book: Grünbaum, Adolf . The Foundations of Psychoanalysis: A Philosophical Critique . 1984 . xi–xii . 0-520-05016-9 . University of California Press .
  33. Crews . FC . 1996 . The Verdict on Freud . Psychological Science . 7 . 2 . 10.1111/j.1467-9280.1996.tb00331.x . 63–8 . 143453699 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20081201183908/http://www.cis.vt.edu/modernworld/d/Freudeval.html . December 1, 2008 .
  34. Book: Macmillan, Malcolm . Freud Evaluated: The Completed Arc . The MIT Press . Cambridge, Massachusetts . 1997 . vii . 0-262-63171-7 . (originally published in 1991).
  35. News: Miller . L . Freudian Flame Wars – The Memory Wars: Freud's Legacy in Dispute . April 29, 2009 . December 2, 1995 . . https://web.archive.org/web/20080110010311/http://dir.salon.com/story/books/feature/1995/12/02/freud/ . January 10, 2008 . dead .
  36. Wade, C., Tavris, C. (2011). Psychology (10th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.
  37. News: Crews . FC . Cheerful assassin defies analysis . April 29, 2009 . March 3, 1995 . . March 20, 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120320035656/http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storyCode=96726&sectioncode=26 . live .
  38. Crews . Frederick . 1985 . 92 . 3 . The New Republic . 28–33 . The Future of an Illusion .
  39. News: The Literary Freud . Merkin . D . July 13, 2003 . . February 19, 2009 . June 25, 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240625125321/https://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/13/magazine/the-literary-freud.html . live . (subscription required)
  40. Book: Gellner, Ernest . Ernest Gellner. The Psychoanalytic Movement: The Cunning of Unreason . Blackwell Pub . Cambridge, MA . 2003 . xxii . 0-631-23413-6 .
  41. Web site: A News Hour with Jim Lehrer – Sigmund Freud . January 6, 1999 . April 29, 2009 . Lehrer . Jim . . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090531230939/http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/health/jan-june99/freud.html . May 31, 2009 .
  42. [Margaret Talbot|Talbot, Margaret]
  43. Web site: Library of Congress, "Major Freud Exhibition to Open October 15," April 20, 1998 (revised August 20, 1998) . . August 10, 2022 . June 25, 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240625125430/https://www.loc.gov/item/prn-98-027/major-freud-exhibition-to-open-october-15/1998-04-20/ . live .
  44. Book: Zaretsky, Eli . Secrets of the Soul: A Social and Cultural History of Psychoanalysis . . New York . 2004 . 295, 339 . 0-679-44654-0 .
  45. . March 23, 2017 . Freud's Influence: Eli Zaretsky, reply by Frederick C. Crews . Crews . Frederick C. . Zaretsky . Eli .
  46. Appignanesi, Lisa, "Freud's Clay Feet: Frederick Crews's biography 'Freud: The Making of an Illusion,'" The New York Review of Books (October 26, 2017) . The New York Review of Books . October 26, 2017 . 64 . 16 . June 30, 2021 . June 25, 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240625142528/https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2017/10/26/freuds-clay-feet/ . live . Appignanesi . Lisa .
  47. Barglow . Peter . Jettisoning Freud's Spurious Contributions . Skeptical Inquirer . 2018 . 42 . 1 . 56–57 . Committee for Skeptical Inquirer.
  48. https://www.nationalreview.com/magazine/2017/09/11/frederick-crews-freud-death/ "The Death of Freud," National Review
  49. News: Freud and Memory: An Exchange . . Crews . FC . Erdelyi M . December 13, 2008 . June 25, 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240625125911/https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1995/03/23/freud-and-memory-an-exchange/ . live .
  50. Book: Crews, F. . 1997 . The Memory Wars . . New York . 0-940322-04-8 . 71 .
  51. News: Floggin Freud . Boxer . S . . August 10, 1997 . February 19, 2009 . June 25, 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240625142428/https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/97/08/10/reviews/970810.10boxert.html?_r=4&scp=2&sq=Frederick%20Crews&st=cse . live . (subscription required)
  52. Web site: The FMSF Scientific and Professional Advisory Board – Profiles: FREDERICK C. CREWS, Ph.D. . . February 9, 2017 . June 25, 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240625130822/http://www.fmsfonline.org/?about=AdvisoryBoardProfiles#frederickcrews . live .
  53. News: Television Review; A Growth Industry: Helping Recall Sexual Abuse . February 19, 2009 . April 4, 1995 . . Goodman . W .
  54. Douglas . GH . Book Review : The Random House Handbook . 10.1177/002194367401100311 . Journal of Business Communication . 11 . 3 . 57 . 1974 . 144278563 . April 27, 2009 . July 9, 2012 . https://archive.today/20120709175241/http://job.sagepub.com/cgi/content/citation/11/3/57 . live .
  55. News: College Text 'Dumbing' Aids Sales . . Trombley . W . January 10, 1982 . A1 .
  56. Book: Crews, FC . The Borzoi Handbook for Writers (3rd ed.) . Schor S . Hennessy M . . 1993 . 0-07-911401-6.
  57. Web site: Crews . Frederick . A Shower Of Lies: Spanier, Sandusky And The Mess At Penn State . Big Trial . October 6, 2022 . July 3, 2024.
  58. Web site: Parlato . Frank . Berkeley Professor, Best Selling Author, Dr. Frederick Crews Has Died; His Last Message Was of Jerry Sandusky's Innocence . Frank Report . June 26, 2024 . July 3, 2024.
  59. Web site: June 11, 2024 . Docket No. 1059 MDA 203 and 1060 MDA 203 . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20240705050705/https://www.pacourts.us/Storage/media/pdfs/20240514/192021-24a15.pdf . July 5, 2024 . July 5, 2024 . www.pacourts.us/.
  60. Web site: Crews . Frederick . Trial by Therapy: The Jerry Sandusky Case Revisited . Skeptic . January 3, 2018 . July 3, 2024.
  61. Web site: 1 John interviews Frederick Crews . SoundCloud . October 13, 2019 . July 3, 2024.
  62. Kramer, M. (2001). "Imagining Authorship in America: "Whose American Renaissance?" Revisited." American Literary History, 13 (1), 108–125.
  63. Crews . FC . . The Mindsnatchers . February 19, 2009 . 1998 . 45 . 11 .
  64. Crews . FC . 45 . 15 . 1998 . 'When Words Collide': An Exchange . Dumm TL . Hopkins B . Jacobs DM . Maier DF . . February 19, 2009 . June 25, 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240625142529/https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1998/10/08/when-words-collide-an-exchange/ . live .
  65. Saving us from Darwin . Crews . FC . . 48 . 15 . 2001 . February 19, 2009 . June 25, 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240625142537/https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2001/10/04/saving-us-from-darwin/ . live .
  66. 'Saving us from Darwin': An Exchange . Crews . FC . Gross C . Kissin B . Plantinga A . Shattuck R . . 48 . 19 . 2001 . February 19, 2009 . June 25, 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240625142538/https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2001/11/29/saving-us-from-darwin-an-exchange/ . live .
  67. Crews . FC . 2007 . Talking Back to Prozac . . 54 . 19 . February 19, 2009 . June 25, 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240625142430/https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2007/12/06/talking-back-to-prozac/ . live .
  68. News: Reading between the dots. Sydney Morning Herald. March 3, 2001 . Andrew . Riemer. 8.
  69. News: Boynton. Robert S.. Hoping Web Success Strikes Twice. New York Times. New York. November 11, 2000. November 22, 2017. May 18, 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170518213241/http://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/11/arts/hoping-web-success-strikes-twice.html. live.
  70. Web site: Frederick Crews . casbs.stanford.edu . . June 29, 2024 . en.
  71. Web site: The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation list of All Fellows . . February 19, 2009 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110603234203/http://www.gf.org/fellows/all?index=c&page=20 . June 3, 2011 .
  72. Web site: Frederick Crews – Distinguished Teaching Award: 1985, English . 1985 . February 19, 2009 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090213005910/http://teaching.berkeley.edu/goodteachers/crews.html . February 13, 2009 .
  73. Web site: Alphabetical Index of Active Members . https://web.archive.org/web/20090902163646/http://www.amacad.org/pdfs/alphaList08.pdf . dead . September 2, 2009 . . April 27, 2009 .
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