A ChildhoodBy: Harry Crews One of the Finest Memoirs Ever Written The New Yorker A Childhood has been widely recognized as a masterpiece, a Dickensian document of survival and blight in Depression era Georgia. Harpers The highly acclaimed memoir of one of the most original American storytellers of the rural South A Penguin Classic Harry Crews grew up as the son of a sharecropper in Georgia at a time when the rest of the country was just beginning to feel the