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Frederick Campbell Crews
Frederick Crews
Born	1933 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Citizenship	United States
Known for	The Pooh Perplex Criticisms of Sigmund Freud Skeptical essays on a variety of topics
Scientific career
Fields	English literature
Institutions	University of California, Berkeley

Frederick Campbell Crews (born 1933, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an award-winning American essayist, literary critic, author, and Professor Emeritus of English at the University of California, Berkeley. He received popular attention for The Pooh Perplex, a book of satirical essays parodying contemporary casebooks. Initially a proponent of psychoanalytic literary criticism, Crews later moved away from, and in the early 1980s rejected psychoanalysis, going on to criticize Freud's scientific and ethical standards. Crews became a prominent critic of Freud during the "Freud wars" of the 1980s and 90s, which debated the Viennese psychoanalyst's reputation, scholarship and impact on the 20th century.

Crews has also 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's work and recovered memory therapy, both of which were published as separate collections. Crews has also published several successful handbooks on the English language.

Biography

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Crews completed his undergraduate education at Yale University, and received his Ph.D from Princeton University in 1958. As of 2009, Crews was a Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley.

Publications

Satire

In 1963 Crews published his first bestseller The Pooh Perplex: A Student Casebook that satirized the casebooks then assigned to first-year university students in introductory courses to English literature or rhetoric. Derived in part from a play put on by Crews's English department in 1958, the book featured a fictitious set of English professors writing exegetical essays on A. A. Milne's classic character Winnie-the-Pooh, parodying Marxist, Freudian, Christian, Leavisite and Fiedlerian approaches. Though urged by readers to publish a follow-up volume, Crews delayed writing a follow-up until after his retirement in 1994, producing Postmodern Pooh in 2001. The follow-up book repeated the satire of the original with more contemporary critical perspectives such as deconstruction, radical feminism, queer theory, and recovered memory therapy, in part basing the essay authors and their approaches on actual academics and their work.

A 1968 publication by Crews entitled The Patch Commission was a satirical look at Presidential Commissions that emphasized his disapproval of the then-ongoing Vietnam War. The book is transcription of the fictional Patch Commission, a discussion between three government commissioners attempting to save the nation from disaster caused by 'Doc Spock's overly permissive child-rearing guidelines.

Literary criticism

Much of Crews's career has been dedicated to literary criticism. Crews's first book was The Tragedy of Manners: Moral Drama in the Later Novels of Henry James, published in 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. The book discussed three late novels by Henry James: The Ambassadors, The Wings of the Dove, and The Golden Bowl, analyzing the function and tensions within a system of manners, the interaction between an individual's ethics and their reflection within the values of a community. In 1962 Crews's doctoral dissertation from Princeton University was published as E. M. Forster: The Perils of Humanism. In 1966 he published a study of Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Sins of the Fathers: Hawthorne's Psychological Themes, which examined Hawthorne's entire literary career including unfinished novels; published as a Freudian analysis, it was re-issued in 1989 with Crews's reassessment of his initial position and how literary criticism has dealt with Hawthorne since 1966. In 1970, Crews edited Psychoanalysis and Literary Process, a collection of essays by Crews's students that analyzed a variety of authors from a psychoanalytic perspective. The collection included Crews's essay "Anaesthetic Criticism" that disparaged contemporary schools of literary criticism.

In 1986 Crews published The Critics Bear It Away, which was wholly devoted to literary criticism. The Critics Bear It Away was described as part of a Liberal revival within education after a long period of Conservatism focussing on the revision of the Western canon, and filled with an internal conflict between Crews's sympathies with and opposition to the revisionist position. The Critics Bear It Away was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award for nonfiction and won the Spielvogel-Diamonstein Award for the Art of the Essay Winners Parts of his 1975 collection Out of My System, the 1986 collection Skeptical Engagements, and the 2005 Follies of the Wise were also dedicated to literary criticism.

Criticisms of Freud and psychoanalysis

Crews began his career using a psychoanalytic literary criticism position 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 therepeutic approach, suggesting that it had a weak, sometimes comical tradition of criticism. Crews rejected psychoanalysis entirely in his article "Analysis Terminable" (first published in Commentary in 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 parents. Describing himself as "a one-time Freudian who had decided to help others resist the fallacies to which I had succumbed in the 1960s", his position was summarized in Salon.com as "psychoanalysis is a spurious, ineffective pseudoscience, based on the fudged data of an unscrupulous and calculating founder and perpetuated by followers who mimic his craftiness in a 'shell game whereby critics of Freudianism are always told that new breakthroughs render their strictures obsolete,'" supporting his objections to Freud's personal qualities and theories empirically with "extensive and meticulous research".

Crews describes 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. Two of his essays, "Analysis Terminable" and "The Unknown Freud", published in 1993, have been described as shots fired at the beginning of the "Freud Wars," a long-running debate over Sigmund Freud's reputation, work and impact. "The Unknown Freud" prompted an unprecedented number of letters to fill the pages of the The New York Review of Books for several issues. 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 '90s. In 1996 Crews credited Henri F. Ellenberger's The Discovery of the Unconscious with beginning a twenty five year long reevaluation of the position of psychoanalysis within the history of medicine. Crews was one of a number of critics who protested an exhibit presented at the Library of Congress in 1998, as too positive and favorable to Freud; the protests delayed the exhibit's opening by almost a year, and almost cancelled it outright.

Criticisms 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, which also provoked heated debate and letters to the editors of The New York Review of Books. The essays, along with critical and supporting letters and his responses, were published as The Memory Wars in 1995 and Crews's articles alone were republished as Follies of the Wise in 2006. Crews believes the memories and fantasies of childhood seduction reported by Freud were not real memories but were constructs created by him and forced upon his patients. The seduction theory that Freud abandoned in the late 1890s is seen by Crews as a precedent and contributing factor to the wave of false allegations of childhood sexual abuse in the 1980s and 1990s.

Crews is a member of the False Memory Syndrome Foundation's advisory board and has been described as "leading a backlash against recovered memory therapy."

Other interests

Writing handbooks

In 1974 Crews published a handbook for Random House on the proper uses of the English language. The book was praised for being extremely readable, helpful, and written as if Crews enjoyed writing it and was highly successful, running to nine editions. Crews also produced The Borzoi handbook for writers for McGraw-Hill as well as a variety of supplementary workbooks.

The New York Review of Books

In his capacity as a reviewer for The New York Review of Books, Crews has used a rational, critical and skeptical position to address diverse topics, often using satire to make his points. In addition to his publications on Freud and recovered memory therapy, topics Crews has written on include:

• A 1998 review of books related to the UFO abduction phenomenon, stating he believed the use of hypnosis, suggestion and demand characteristics by unskilled hypnotherapists, and confabulation by the subjects were the primary causes of the phenomenon, and sources of the memories.
• A 2001 review of books related to the creation–evolution controversy, criticising the question-begging nature of creationism and the lack of scientific merit to its claims.
• A 2007 review of books relating to major depressive disorder, selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, discussing in particular fluoxetine (trade name Prozac) and paroxetine as part of a lengthy essay on the relationship between "Big Pharma", academic psychiatry and psychiatrists and the United States Food and Drug Administration.

Will, you are a fucking creep.

BTW, why are you letting me edit this talk page? You should know that I'll cause disruption here.

Hello, I'm Skoojal, and this is my user page. I am a wikipedian with an agenda, and I'm happy to tell anyone what that agenda is. Much of it relates to Frederick Crews. Starting in early February 2008, I began making a series of modifications to the article on Crews. To begin with, these modifications were minor and uncontroversial, but as I proceeded they became steadily more provocative. This was partly an attempt to find out what it is and is not possible to get away with on wikipedia: just how critical could I be of Crews before someone decided that I had gone too far?

In late February, my edits were reverted by Shell Kinney, an administrator. This did not surprise me; if anything, I was surprised that it did not happen sooner. It happened shortly after I pointed out in the article that Crews had implied that homosexuality was a mental illness, so I assume that that was the last straw. Shell Kinney must have thought that I was out to 'get' Crews, which of course I was; no one who wasn't would have done what I did. I complained about Shell Kinney's decision on the talk page, but refrained from re-inserting the material that she had deleted into the article. At that point, I was almost prepared to give up on wikipedia; I thought that I might re-insert some of that material into the article at a later date, but I was in no hurry to do that, and perhaps I would never have bothered.

In early April 2008, another user, Xxanthippe, re-inserted that material. Apparently she did not take the trouble to fact check it first, since the material she re-inserted included a significant error (eg, that Judith Butler had used the word 'homophobic' to describe Crews) that I had originally been responsible for inserting. I expected that Xxanthippe's edit would be quickly undone by an administrator and that the article would be reduced back to a stub again but, for whatever reason, this did not happen. So I returned to editing it, correcting the factual mistake about what Butler said about Crews, and making a series of further changes.

In May 2008 I became involved in a conflict about a different issue with an administrator called Kukini. This lead to my being blocked for a brief period. One of the first things I did after the block expired, on May 13, 2008, was to place a long post on the talk page of Cailil, another user I had come into conflict with, to explain my motives, which by that time I had decided it was better to be open and direct about.

[Cailil, you have recently made suggestions about my motives for editing certain articles. I have no comment about my reasons for wanting to make changes to the Foucault article, but I will tell you exactly why I edited the Butler article.

To do this I have to explain a few facts about myself. I am a homosexual. True to the classic Freudian theory about homosexuality, I had a distant and rather cold father and an extremely close, even smothering, mother. I have always assumed that this is part of the reason why I am homosexual, and my reading of the literature about the development of homosexuality has reinforced rather than undermined this view. I therefore have very strong personal reasons for caring about articles related to homosexuality and/or psychoanalysis. That was why I edited the article about Frederick Crews, a man I despise. Reading Crews's book Skeptical Engagements, I discovered that in his article "Analysis Terminable" he had, in the course of an attack on psychoanalysis, implied that homosexuality is a mental illness. Crews also implied that, if it were true that parents did something that caused their children to become homosexual, then they should be ashamed of themselves, homosexuality being such a bad thing. Crews's remarks enraged me (such anti-homosexual remarks are of course the sort of thing one expects to read in Commentary magazine, where that article was first published, since it is well known as an extremely right-wing publication). Reading more of Crews's work, I quickly found something that made me even angrier than his remarks in "Analysis Terminable": his suggestion in The Memory Wars that psychoanalysis was to blame for homosexuality being labelled a mental illness.

Coming from someone who had himself called homosexuality a mental illness, and who did it when he was a vehement anti-Freudian, that was a shocking act of intellectual dishonesty, and I decided that I had to do something to bring it to public attention, especially since, by harshly criticising Freud for his alleged dishonesties, Crews had in effect suggested that he himself was an exceptionally honest person. That suggestion was revolting, and to me it made Crews fair game for the most aggressive and personal kind of attack. My first attacks on Crews were made on the letters page of the Butterflies and Wheels website. There, using a different pseudonym, Richard R. Warnotck, I had a series of exchanges with Allen Esterson, the author of a book called Seductive Mirage, a well known critic of Freud and psychoanalysis, and an ally and friend of Crews. Esterson defended Crews in several unconvincing ways, only one of which I'll mention here: he declared that only in my mind could Crews's comments possibly be deemed homophobic.

Later, after these exchanges were over, I found out something that I wish I had known at the time: that, during a conference on Freud's role in twentieth century culture, Crews had accused Judith Butler of interpreting one of his comments (an apparently innocuous reference to 'community standards') as homophobic. Each side in that exchange was partly correct. Crews was correct that Butler was calling him homophobic, and Butler was correct to call him that. I cannot speak for Judith Butler, but presumably she has read "Analysis Terminable", and perhaps its comments about homosexuality were what made her conclude that Crews was homophobic. Common sense suggests that Crews's 'community standards' remark cannot have been the only reason why Butler made such a damaging suggestion about him. In any case, this exchange was useful to me, because it showed that, contra Esterson, there was at least one other person in the world besides me who might interpret Crews's comments as homophobic, and that the name of that person is Judith Butler.

Deeming it pointless to return to the Butterflies and Wheels site, I decided to use Misplaced Pages to express my disgust with Crews (try looking at the history of the article on Crews, and the Crews talk page). The version of the article I wrote was deleted by an administrator. It was only then that I decided to make any change to the Butler page. My purpose in mentioning Crews's criticism of Butler there was not to make Butler look bad - on the contrary, it was to make Crews look bad and to establish that someone had called him homophobic. Now you may not agree with my behaviour, but motives in all this certainly were not anti-homosexual.]

On May 14, 2008, after I made a change to the article on Crews, Kukini made a minor edit , tidying up what I had done. He did this so quickly that I would guess that he must have been closely monitoring my edits at that time. That he did not stubbify the article, as Shell Kinney did, was noteworthy, and even eyebrow raising, since only the day before I had made it totally clear that I had edited it as a way of attacking Crews. On May 24, 2008 Kukini undid a trivial change that had I made to the article on conversion therapy on the grounds that it was 'POV pushing' . Why he thought that what I did to the article on Crews was not POV pushing, I do not know. On May 25, Cailil suddenly decided that my explanation of my motives did not belong on his talk page and deleted it ). More recently , Cailil brought this issue to the attention of a third administrator, DGG, who took no immediate action.

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OK, now how's that for disruption? I could do worse!

Honors and awards

• Fulbright Lectureship, Turin, Italy, 1961-62
• Essay Prize, National Council on the Arts and Humanities, 1968
• Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, 1965-66
• Guggenheim Fellowship (Literary criticism), 1970
• Distinguished Teaching Award, University of California, Berkeley, 1985
• Election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , 1991
• Faculty Research Lecturer, University of California, Berkeley, 1991-92
• Editorial Board, “Rethinking Theory” series, Northwestern University Press, 1992–present
• Nomination for National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction (The Critics Bear It Away), 1992
• Spielvogel-Diamonstein Award for the Art of the Essay Winners (The Critics Bear It Away), 1993
• Berkeley Citation, 1994
• Inclusion in The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2002, ed. Natalie Angier (Houghton Mifflin), 2002
• Fellow, Commission for Scientific Medicine and Mental Health, 2003-present
• Berkeley Fellow, 2005–present
• Inclusion in The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2005, ed. Jonathan Weiner (Houghton Mifflin), 2005
• Nominated for National Book Critics Circle Award (Follies of the Wise), 2006

Bibliography

As author

• Crews, FC (1957). The Tragedy of Manners: Moral Drama in the Later Novels of Henry James. Yale University Press. ISBN 0208010475 (1971 Archon books re-issue). {{cite book}}: Check |isbn= value: invalid character (help)
• Crews, FC (1962). E. M. Forster: The Perils of Humanism. Princeton University Press. ISBN 0758157681 (2003 Textbook Publishers re-issue). {{cite book}}: Check |isbn= value: invalid character (help)
• Crews, FC (1963/2003). The Pooh Perplex: A Student Casebook (2003 re-issue). E.P. Dutton/University of Chicago Press. ISBN 0226120589. {{cite book}}: Check date values in: |year= (help)CS1 maint: year (link)
• Crews, Frederick C. (1966/1989). The Sins of the Fathers: Hawthorne's Psychological Themes. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-06817-3. {{cite book}}: Check date values in: |year= (help)CS1 maint: year (link)
• Crews, FC (1968). The Patch Commission. E. P. Dutton.
• Crews, FC (1975). Out of My System: Psychoanalysis, Ideology, and Critical Method. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0195019474.
• Crews, FC (1986). Skeptical Engagements. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0195039505.
• Crews, FC (1977). The Random House Workbook. Random House. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
• Crews, FC (1980/1991). The Random House Handbook. McGraw-Hill. ISBN 007013636X. {{cite book}}: Check date values in: |year= (help)CS1 maint: year (link)
• Crews, FC (1992). The Critics Bear It Away: American Fiction and the Academy. Random House. ISBN 0679404139.
• Crews, FC (1993). The Borzoi Handbook for Writers (3rd ed.). McGraw-Hill. ISBN 0079114016. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
• Crews, FC. Exercises for the Borzoi Handbook for Writers. Alfred A. Knopf. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
• Crews, FC (1993). The Borzoi Practice Book for Writers. McGraw-Hill. ISBN 0070136513. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
• Crews, FC (1995). The Memory Wars: Freud's Legacy in Dispute. The New York Review of Books. ISBN 0940322072.
• Crews, FC (2001). Postmodern Pooh. North Point Press. ISBN 0865476268.
• Crews, FC (2005). Follies of the Wise: Dissenting Essays. Shoemaker & Hoard. ISBN 1593761015.

As editor

• Crews, FC (1970). Psychoanalysis and Literary Process. Winthrop Publishers. ISBN 013732362X.
• Crews, FC (1970). Starting Over: A College Reader. Random House. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |coauthor= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
• Crews FC; McMichael GL (1997). Anthology of American Literature. Englewood Cliffs, N.J: Prentice Hall. ISBN 013573973X.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
• Crews, FC (1998). Unauthorized Freud: Doubters Confront a Legend. Viking Press. ISBN 0670872210.
• Crews, FC (1998). Concise Anthology of American Literature. Englewood Cliffs, N.J: Prentice Hall. ISBN 0133732916. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)

Notes

1. ^ "The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation list of All Fellows". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved 2009-02-19.
2. "Frederick C. Crews, Emeritus - Staff page at UC, Berkeley". University of California, Berkeley. Retrieved 2009-02-19.
3. ^ Marcus, D (2002-01-30). "Lit crit Frederick Crews *58, author of The Pooh Perplex, pokes the Academy once more with his new book, Postmodern Pooh". Princeton Alumni Weekly. Retrieved 2009-04-28.
4. "Details for: Frederick C. Crews". University of California, Berkeley. Retrieved 2009-04-27.
5. Crews, FC (1968). The Patch Commission. E. P. Dutton. ASIN B001SUMQ08
6. ^ Erickson, P (1993). "The Critics Bear It Away: American Fiction and the Academy - book reviews". Criticism. Retrieved 2009-04-27.
7. "Anti-Youth Movements". Time. 1968-08-02. Retrieved 2009-04-28. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
8. ^ Carlson SJ (1985). Women of grace: James's plays and the comedy of manners. Ann Arbor, Mich: UMI Research Press. p. 5. ISBN 0-8357-1617-1.
9. Crews, FC (1958). "The Tragedy of Manners: Moral Drama in the Later Novels of Henry James". Yale University. Undergraduate prize essays. 10. Yale University Press.
10. Simon L (2007). The Critical Reception of Henry James: Creating a Master (Literary Criticism in Perspective) (Literary Criticism in Perspective). Columbia, SC, USA: Camden House. pp. 78. ISBN 1-57113-319-4.
11. Crews, FC (1962). E. M. Forster: The Perils of Humanism. Princeton University Press. pp. vii. ISBN 0758157681.
12. Crews, Frederick C. (1989 (re-issue)). The Sins of the Fathers: Hawthorne's Psychological Themes. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 0520068173. {{cite book}}: Check date values in: |year= (help)CS1 maint: year (link)
13. "Frederick Crews - The Sins of the Fathers". University of California Press. Retrieved 2009-04-29.
14. Tompkins, Jane P. (1980). Reader-response criticism: from formalism to post-structuralism. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 0-8018-2401-X.
15. Barchilon, J (1973). "Book Review: Psychoanalysis and Literary Process: Edited by Frederick Crews". The Psychoanalytic Quarterly. 42: 644–51.
16. Stern, HR (1973). "Book Review: Psychoanalysis and Literary Process. Frederick Crews (Ed.)". The Psychoanalytic Review. 60: 304–5.
17. Crews, FC (1992). The Critics Bear It Away: American Fiction and the Academy. Random House. ISBN 0679404139.
18. ^ "Critics nominate best books of '92". The Hartford Courant. 1993-01-19. pp. C.6. Retrieved 2009-04-29.
19. ^ "Spielvogel-Diamonstein Award for the Art of the Essay Winners". Retrieved 2009-02-19.
20. Crews, FC (1975). Out of My System: Psychoanalysis, Ideology, and Critical Method. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0195019474.
21. Crews, FC (1986). Skeptical Engagements. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0195039505.
22. Crews, FC (2005). Follies of the Wise: Dissenting Essays. Shoemaker & Hoard. ISBN 1593761015.
23. Crews, FC (1975). Out of My System: Psychoanalysis, Ideology, and Critical Method. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0195019474.
24. Crews, FC (1986). Skeptical Engagements. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0195039505.
25. ^ Miller, L (1995-12-02). "Freudian Flame Wars - The Memory Wars: Freud's Legacy in Dispute". Salon.com. Retrieved 2009-04-29.
26. Crews, FC (1995-03-03). "Cheerful assassin defies analysis". Times Higher Education. Retrieved 2009-04-29.
27. Merkin, D (2003-07-13). "The Literary Freud". The New York Times. Retrieved 2009-02-19. (subscription requried)
28. Gellner, Ernest (2003). The Psychoanalytic Movement: The Cunning of Unreason. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell Pub. pp. xxii. ISBN 0-631-23413-6.
29. Crews, FC (1996). "The Verdict on Freud". Psychological Science. 7 (2): 63–8. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9280.1996.tb00331.x.
30. Lehrer, J (1999-01-06). "A News Hour with Jim Lehrer - Sigmund Freud". PBS.com. Retrieved 2009-04-29.
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32. Crews, F. (1997). The Memory Wars. New York: The New York Review of Books. p. 71. ISBN 0940322048.
33. Crews, FC (2006). Follies of the Wise: Dissenting Essays. Shoemaker & Hoard. ISBN 1593761015.
34. Boxer, S (1997-08-10). "Floggin Freud". The New York Times. Retrieved 2009-02-19. (subscription required)
35. C. Crews "The FMSF Scientific and Professional Advisory Board - Profiles: Frederick C. Crews". False Memory Syndrome Foundation. Retrieved 2009-02-19. {{cite web}}: Check |url= value (help)
36. Goodman, W (1995-04-04). "Television Review; A Growth Industry: Helping Recall Sexual Abuse". The New York Times. Retrieved 2009-02-19.
37. Douglas, GH (1974). "Book Review - The Random House Handbook". Journal of Business Communication. 11 (3): 57. doi:10.1177/002194367401100311.
38. Trombley, W (1982-01-10). "College Text 'Dumbing' Aids Sales". Los Angeles Times. pp. A1.
39. Crews, FC (1993). The Borzoi Handbook for Writers (3rd ed.). McGraw-Hill. ISBN 0079114016. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
40. Crews, FC. Exercises for the Borzoi Handbook for Writers. Alfred A. Knopf. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
41. Crews, FC (1993). The Borzoi Practice Book for Writers. McGraw-Hill. ISBN 0070136513. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
42. Crews, FC (1998). "The Mindsnatchers". The New York Review of Books. 45 (11). Retrieved 2009-02-19.
43. Crews, FC (1998). "'When Words Collide': An Exchange". The New York Review of Books. 45 (15). Retrieved 2009-02-19. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
44. Crews, FC (2001). "Saving us from Darwin". The New York Review of Books. 48 (15). Retrieved 2009-02-19.
45. Crews, FC (2001). "'Saving us from Darwin': An Exchange". The New York Review of Books. 48 (19). Retrieved 2009-02-19. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
46. Crews, FC (2007). "Talking Back to Prozac". The New York Review of Books. 54 (19). Retrieved 2009-02-19.
47. "Frederick Crews - Distinguished Teaching Award: 1985, English". 1985. Retrieved 2009-02-19.
48. "Alphabetical Index of Active Members" (pdf). American Academy of Arts and Sciences . Retrieved 2009-04-27.
49. "University of California, Berkeley - Berkely Citation: Historical list of recipients as of 12/16/2008" (pdf). 2008-12-16. Retrieved 2009-02-19.
50. "The Commission for Scientific Medicine and Mental Health: Coordinating Committee & Fellows". Commission for Scientific Medicine and Mental Health. Retrieved 2009-02-19.

External links

• Book reviews by Crews at The New York Review of Books
• Frederick C. Crews at the Open Library

Interviews

• Interview with Institute of International Studies, University of California, Berkeley
• Interview at the Public Broadcasting Service

• 1933 births
• Living people
• People from Pennsylvania
• Literary critics
• University of California, Berkeley faculty