Karl G Maeser Excellence in Teaching Award, BYU Maeser Distinguished Faculty Lecturer, BYUĢ020 Amazing Audiobooks Award for Getting Away with Murder, American Library Associationįinalist, Indiana High School Book Award, Indiana Library Federationįinalist, South Carolina Book Award, South Carolina Association of School Librarians MEd, English Education, Arizona State U, 1980īA, English, Brigham Young University, 1976Ģ010 Ted Hipple Award, Assembly on Literature for AdolescentsĮNGL 320 Writing for Children and TeenagersĮNGL 377 Methods of Teaching Secondary ENGL He married his high school sweetheart, Elizabeth, in 1973, and they have four children, two beautiful granddaughters, and three handsome grandsons.ĮdD, English Education, Arizona State U, 1986 He attended BYU on a football scholarship from 1972 through 1975. His next book, a historical novel titled Death Coming Up the Hill, will be published in October 2014. Taylor (Heinneman, 2007) “How I Came to Write”: LDS Authors for Young Adults (Center for Christian Values in Literature, 2007) Thurgood Marshall: Up Close (Viking, 2008), and Just as Good: How Larry Doby Changed America’s Game (Candlewick, 2012). 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. Crowe’s books include Presenting Mildred D. 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. His areas of research and teaching include young adult literature, English education, and creative writing.

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

Getting Away with Murder by Chris Crowe