![]() ![]() Not many people, least of all anyone connected with his education, would have imagined that Crutcher would ever become a writer. ![]() I got a good picture of what that was like and decided I didn’t want anything to do with it.” He was the valedictorian of the class, and I don’t think he got anything under an A minus the whole time he was in high school. He attributes his academic non-achievements to having an older brother who was “real bright. Crutcher claims his parents “were in Cascade before I got dry,” referring to Cascade, Idaho, the small lumber and logging town of about 950 people where he was raised.Īs a youth, ALAN Award–winning and six-time ALA award-winning author Chris Crutcher was not an outstanding student. Edwards Award, which honors an author’s lifetime achievement for writing books that are perennially popular with teenagers.Ĭhris Crutcher has been chosen as one of six writers selected by The Writer magazine to receive their 3rd annual "Writers Who Make a Difference" award.Ĭhris Crutcher’s dad was an Air Force pilot, and his parents were “just passing through” Dayton, Ohio, when Chris was born on July 17, 1946. ![]() For me, those are things worth exploring and writing about.”-Chris CrutcherĬhris Crutcher received the Margaret A. and a different perspective on the true nature of courage. ![]() is a sense of the connections between all human beings. ![]()
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