Remembering Frederick Crews, retired UC Berkeley English department chair and prominent Freud critic

Fred Crews, professor, author, and champion of rational thinking, died at age 91. He became valedictorian, graduated summa cum laude from Yale, and was chair of the English department at UC Berkeley.

Crews published The Pooh Perplex, a bestselling satire on literary criticism in 1963, and The Random House Handbook in 1974, a popular composition manual that reached over a million readers.

In 1980, Fred Crews began critiquing Freudian doctrine, eventually leading to significant controversy with his works Skeptical Engagements and The Unknown Freud, published in The New York Review of Books.

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