Contact Information

Office: 4121 JFSB

Phone: 422-3429

E-mail: chris_crowe@byu.edu

Courses Taught:
ENGL 420 Literature for Adolescents; ENGL 377 Methods of Teaching Secondary English; ENGL 320 Writing for Children and Teenagers; ENGL 218 Intro to Creative Writing; ENGL 520 Writing the YA Novel

Chris Crowe completed his graduate study at Arizona State University and, after teaching high school English for ten years, taught at Himeji (Japan) Dokkyo University and BYU-Hawaii before coming to BYU in 1993.

His areas of research and teaching include young adult literature, English education, and creative writing. He is past president of the Assembly on Literature for Adolescents (ALAN) and spent 5 years as editor of the YA Literature Column for the English Journal.

Dr. Crowe's books include Presenting Mildred D. Taylor (Twayne 1999); Mississippi Trial, 1955 (Penguin Putnam 2002); Getting Away with Murder: The True Story of the Emmett Till Case (Penguin 2003); More than a Game: Sports Literature for Young Adults (Scarecrow, 2004); Two Roads (Deseret Book, 2007); Teaching the Selected Works of Mildred D. Taylor (Heinneman, 2007); "How I Came to Write": LDS Authors for Young Adults (Center for Christian Values in Literature, 2007); and Thurgood Marshall: Up Close (Viking 2008).

He attended BYU on a football scholarship from 1972 through 1975. He married his high school sweetheart, Elizabeth, in 1973, and they have four children.

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