CRAWFORD, Max 1938-

PERSONAL: Born August 6, 1938, in Lubbock, TX. Education: University of Texas, B.A.

ADDRESSES: Home—San Francisco, CA. Agent— Elaine Markson Literary Agency, Inc., 44 Greenwich Ave., New York, NY 10011.

CAREER: Writer. Military service: U.S. Army, 1958-60.

WRITINGS:

Waltz across Texas (novel), Farrar, Straus & Giroux (New York, NY), 1975.

The Blackslider (novel), Farrar, Straus & Giroux (New York, NY), 1976.

The Bad Communist, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich (New York, NY), 1979.

Lords of the Plain (novel), Atheneum (New York, NY), 1985.

Six Key Cut, Atheneum (New York, NY), 1986.

(With Michael Koëpf) Icarus, Atheneum (New York, NY), 1988.

Can't Dance (novel), Atheneum (New York, NY), 1989.

Wamba (novel), University of Oklahoma Press (Norman, OK), 2002.

Eastertown (novel), University of Oklahoma Press (Norman, OK), 2003.

SIDELIGHTS: Max Crawford once told CA: "I am interested in writing and reading about certain problems of communism (Russia and China are interesting) and capitalism (American, particularly my home state of Texas) in the twentieth century."

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Best Sellers, July, 1979, review of The Bad Communist, p. 116.

Booklist, April 15, 1979, review of The Bad Communist, p. 1272; January 1, 1985, review of Lords of the Plain, p. 619.

Book World, February 3, 1985, review of Lords of the Plain, p. 6.

Kirkus Reviews, February 15, 1979, review of The Bad Communist, p. 209; November 15, 1984, review of Lords of the Plain, p. 1056; March 1, 1986, review of Six Key Cut, p. 319; July 15, 1989, review of Can't Dance, p. 1012.

Library Journal, May 15, 1979, review of The Bad Communist, p. 1157; December, 1984, review of Lords of the Plain, p. 2296; May 1, 1986, John North, review of Six Key Cut, p. 130; April 15, 1988, Barbara Conaty, review of Icarus, p. 94.

New Republic, May 26, 1979, review of The Bad Communist, p. 41.

New Yorker, April 15, 1985, review of Lords of the Plain, p. 129; August 25, 1986, review of Six Key Cut, p. 96.

New York Times Book Review, January 20, 1985, M. S. Kaplan, review of Lords of the Plain, p. 18; July 6, 1986, John Katzenbach, review of Six Key Cut, p. 14.

Publishers Weekly, March 5, 1979, review of The Bad Communist, p. 100; November 9, 1984, review of Lords of the Plain, p. 58; April 18, 1986, review of Six Key Cut, p. 52; March 4, 1988, Sybil Steinberg, review of Icarus, p. 98; July 28, 1989, Sybil Steinberg, review of Can't Dance, p. 205.

Saturday Review, June, 1985, Speer Morgan, review of Lords of the Plain, p. 67.

Texas Monthly, February, 1985, James Whitaker, review of Lords of the Plain, p. 2296; May, 1986, Jan Reid, review of Six Key Cut, p. 178.

West Coast Review of Books, July, 1979, review of The Bad Communist, p. 42.

Western American Literature, winter, 1987, review of Lords of the Plain, p. 353.*