Frederick Crews

Fred Crews became the director of my doctoral dissertation in the UC Berkeley English Dept. in the early 1970s, which I finished in 1975. After I left to teach at the U. of Michigan we stayed in touch until March 2023, mainly by email in the last decades. From the outset I found him energetic and engaged, albeit soft spoken and impeccably polite. He had an open manner and a winningly irreverent sense of humor. At once he gave me a copy of THE SINS OF THE FATHERS which turned out to be a...