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John Crowley (born 19 August 1969) is an Irish film and theatre director. He is best known for the films Brooklyn (2015) and his debut feature, Intermission (2003), for which he won an Irish Film and Television Award for Best Director.
John Crowley has 118 books on Goodreads with 127155 ratings. John Crowley’s most popular book is Little, Big.
Mar 1, 1987 · John Crowley was born in Presque Isle, Maine, in 1942; his father was then an officer in the US Army Air Corps. He grew up in Vermont, northeastern Kentucky and (for the longest stretch) Indiana, where he went to high school and college.
John J. Reilly, reviewing the novel for First Things: AMonthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, stated that "Crowley's blend of magic, blasphemy, and post-modernism works very well as fiction." Crowley told Publishers Weekly writer Robert K. J. Killheffer that the tetralogy he began with Ægypt may ultimately be his life's work.
John Crowley (1659–1728), British politician. John Francis Crowley (1891–1942), Irish revolutionary and hunger striker. John Powers Crowley (1936–1989), U.S. federal judge. Johnny Crowley (born 1956), Irish hurler. Johnny Crowley (Gaelic footballer), Gaelic footballer with Kerry GAA. John J. Crowley (1891-1940), American Catholic priest ...
Little, Big. Paperback – Oct. 17 2006. John Crowley's masterful Little, Big is the epic story of Smoky Barnable, an anonymous young man who travels by foot from the City to a place called Edgewood—not found on any map—to marry Daily Alice Drinkawater, as was prophesied. It is the story of four generations of a singular family, living in a ...
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John Crowley’s novel “Aegypt” asks if the world could have a secret history encoded in legend and myth that could be found in how our brains are winded, The lead in the novel is a man named Pierce Moffett who has a knack for history but is relegated to a minor teaching job and watches from the sidelines as the great Parade of the 1960s passes him by.
