Chris Crowe Bio: After teaching at universities in Japan and Hawaii, Chris Crowe joined the English Department at Brigham Young University in 1993. In addition to his academic articles, chapters, and books, he has published poetry, essays, short stories, a children’s book, YA novels, and YA nonfiction books. His books have received a variety of honors, including the International Reading Association’s YA Book Award, a
Jane Addams Honor, Whitney Awards, and inclusion in the New York Public Library’s Books for the Teen Age, the American Library Association’s Best Books for Young Adults, and the Junior Library Guild.In 2020, he received BYU’s highest faculty honor, the Karl G. Maeser Distinguished Faculty Lecturer. His best-known books are Death Coming Up the Hill, Getting Away with Murder: the True Story of the Emmett Till Case,
and Mississippi Trial, 1955