Charles Patrick Crow (1938 - 2011)

Born 14 Jul 1938 in Jonesboro, Craighead, Arkansas, United States

Husband of Elizabeth Venture (Smith) Crow — married 1974 in New York, United States

Died 26 Jan 2011 at age 72 in Red Hook, Dutchess, New York, United States

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Biography

Charles Crow is Notable.

Charles Patrick Crow, also known as Pat Crow, was an Arkansas-born writer and editor who had an exceptional career at esteemed publications such as the New York Times, the New York Herald Tribune, and the New Yorker. He was renowned for his rigorous attention to style, usage, and linguistics, particularly in a long career at the New Yorker. Crow edited a great volume of articles for the magazine’s most celebrated writers for thirty-five years and also wrote pieces for the “Talk of the Town” section at the front of the magazine.

Charles "Pat" Patrick Crow was born on July 14, 1938 in Jonesboro, Craighead County, Arkansas. The son of Judson Lawrence Crow and Lorene Louise (Gibson) Crow.^[1] They lived in Jonesboro in 1940^[2], but by 1950 the family had moved to Little Rock, Pulaski County.^[3] He attended Little Rock public schools and graduated from Central High School.^[1]

He decided to pursue a newspaper career early in life. During high school, he was editor of the newspaper. After graduating, he attended the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, Washington County for two years, and then enrolled at the University of Missouri School of Journalism. He graduated in 1960 and took his first job with the Arkansas Democrat, and a few months later switched jobs to work for the Gazette. His early career was split between writing and editing, but later he devoted more of his time to editing newspapers, rather than writing. His time at the Gazette led to disputes over word usage and style. Crow insisted on citing rules from the Dictionary of Modern English Usage, much to the chagrin of other journalists.^[1]

In 1962, he left the Gazette and was hired by the New York Times as a copy editor. In 1966, he worked for the New York Herald Tribune, widely celebrated as a writer's newspaper at the time. Crow was hired at the time to restore the King's English more uniformly in the paper's columns. While there, the paper collapsed after a costly labor strike, and he left the newspaper business to work for a public relations firm handling the publicity for the world's fair in Montreal. However, he did not stay until long, before returning to the industry as chief editor of the Atlantic Monthly.^[1]

In 1974, Crow married Elizabeth Venture Smith, also the editor of Parents magazine. Together they had three children.^[1]

In 1980, he published a book No More Monday Mornings, the only book he was known to have written.^[1] He died on January 26, 2011 in Red Hook, Dutchess County, New York.^[4] In lieu of a burial, his body was cremated and his ashes scatted in the Delware River and into the winds off Pinnacle Mountain on the Arkansas River north of Little Rock, Arkansas.^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6} Dumas, Ernest, Little Rock, Arkansas, last edited on 11 Jul 2022. "Pat Crow (1938–2011)." Accessed 16 May 2023.
2. ↑ 1940 United States Federal Census: Year: 1940; Census Place: Jonesboro, Craighead, Arkansas; Roll: m-t0627-00128; Page: 21B; Enumeration District: 16-19 Ancestry Record 2442 #99363864
3. ↑ 1950 United States Federal Census: United States of America, Bureau of the Census; Washington, D.C.; Seventeenth Census of the United States, 1950; Record Group: Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790-2007; Record Group Number: 29; Residence Date: 1950; Home in 1950: Little Rock, Pulaski, Arkansas; Roll: 1820; Sheet Number: 12; Enumeration District: 77-208 Ancestry Record 62308 #30851097
4. ↑ U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014: Social Security Administration; Washington D.C., USA; Social Security Death Index, Master File Ancestry Record 3693 #89408517