Ben Greer

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Ben Greer, born Bernard Eugene Greer (December 4, 1948), is an American novelist, poet, and playwright. He was born in Spartanburg, South Carolina, and raised in the nearby community of Glenn Springs. He attended the University of South Carolina, earning a Bachelor of Arts in English, and later attended Hollins College, earning a Master of Fine Arts. He published his first novel, Slammer, at the age of 26. He taught at the University of South Carolina for 33 years.

Bibliography

Fiction

Slammer, Atheneum, 1975 ISBN 0689106491 Search this book on .

Halloween, Macmillan, 1978 ISBN 0025455109 Search this book on .

Time Loves a Hero, Doubleday, 1986 ISBN 0385196628 Search this book on .

The Loss of Heaven, Doubleday, 1988 ISBN 0385236166 Search this book on .

Slammer, Voices of the South Series reprint, Louisiana State University Press, 2002 ISBN 0807127892 Search this book on .

Murder in the Holy City, Texas Review Press, 2006 ISBN 9781881515920 Search this book on .

Nonfiction

Presumed Guilty: The Tim Wilkes Story, Wyrick and Co. Press, 1995 ISBN 0941711293 Search this book on .

Poetry

A Late Disorder, Bay Oak Publishers, 2007 ISBN 9780974171388 Search this book on .

The Bright House, Texas Review Press, 2011 ISBN 9781933896618 Search this book on .

The Naked Prince: New and Selected Poems, Press 53, 2020 ISBN 9781950413270 Search this book on .

Short Stories

"Blue Hands," That's What I Like (About the South: And Other New Southern Stories for the Nineties), University of South Carolina Press, 1993 ISBN 0872498646 Search this book on .

Plays

Little Tin Gods

• Staged reading, USC lab theater, Columbia SC, 2007
• First production, Longstreet Theater by Theatre South Carolina, University of South Carolina, 2008

Select Reviews

• Adams, Phoebe. “SLAMMER (Book).” Atlantic Monthly (0004-6795), vol. 236, no. 2, Aug. 1975, p. 89. EBSCOhost, research.ebsco.com/linkprocessor/plink?id=8f3ef286-a354-3a1f-9f29-8db299444406.
• Drucker, Don. "Well-paced Novel About Prison Life: Slammer." The San Francisco Examiner. 5 Aug. 1975, p. 22.
• Dunlap, Benjamin. “The Gaol Gate: Slammer.” New Republic, vol. 173, no. 7/8, Aug. 1975, pp. 33–35. EBSCOhost, research.ebsco.com/linkprocessor/plink?id=ff3670e9-6c7d-3b2d-bff8-2c4b34639bef.
• Griffin, L. W. “Slammer (Book).” LJ: Library Journal, vol. 100, no. 14, Aug. 1975, p. 1442. EBSCOhost, research.ebsco.com/linkprocessor/plink?id=ce82dbeb-8a12-38c6-a2cd-352861749607.
• Manning, Margaret. "A Terrifying Story of Hate and Horror: Slammer." The Boston Globe, 20 Jul. 1975, p. 95.
• Sokolov, Raymond. "Slammer." The New York Times, 14 Sept. 1975, p. 247.

See Also

• https://www.knowitall.org/video/ben-greer-literary-tour-south-carolina
• https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/ben-greer
• Garrett, George. “Ben Greer.” In Dictionary of Literary Biography. Vol. 6. American Novelists since World War II, Second Series. Edited by James E. Kibler. Detroit: Gale, 1980.
• Idol, John L., Jr. "Ben Greer." Southern Writers: A New Biographical Dictionary, Louisiana State University Press, 2006, pp. 167-168.
• Salmon, Virginia L. “Ben Greer.” Guide to Literary Masters & Their Works, Jan. 2007, p. 1. EBSCOhost, research.ebsco.com/linkprocessor/plink?id=b53769ed-1a6c-3d13-a20a-588e3488714b.

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