In addition to his academic articles, chapters, and books, Chris Crowe has published poetry, essays, short stories, a children’s picture 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, the Association for Mormon Letters Novel Awards, 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, and in 2024, the Association for Mormon Letters gave him their Lifetime Achievement Award. His best-known books are Death Coming Up the Hill, Getting Away with Murder: the True Story of the Emmett Till Case, Mississippi Trial, 1955.
