Join us, Wed., July 8, 5 pm as Harrison Scott Key, signs copies of his memoir, The World’s Largest Man (HarperCollins, hb., 352 pp., $27).
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Harrison Scott Key was born in Memphis, but he grew up in Mississippi, among pious, Bible-reading women and men who either shot things or got women pregnant. At the center of his world was his larger-than-life father—a hunter, a fighter, a football coach, “a man better suited to living in a remote frontier wilderness of the nineteenth century than contemporary America, with all its progressive ideas, and paved roads, and lack of armed duels. He was a great man, and he taught me many things: How to fight, how to work, how to cheat, how to pray to Jesus about it, how to kill things with guns and knives and, if necessary, with hammers.”
Sly, heartfelt, and tirelessly hilarious, The World’s Largest Man is an unforgettable memoir—the story of a boy’s struggle to reconcile himself with an impossibly outsized role model, a grown man’s reckoning with the father it took him a lifetime to understand.
Harrison Scott Key is a humor columnist for Oxford American magazine. His nonfiction has also appeared in The Best American Travel Writing, Outside Magazine, Reader’s Digest, Creative Nonfiction, and elsewhere, and his work has been adapted for the stage by Chicago’s Neo-Futurists in their show Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind and other live shows. He teaches English and writing at the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) in Savannah, Georgia, where he lives with his wife and children.
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