HARRY HERVEY AND THE DAMNED DON’T CRY

Harlan Greene

Harlan Greene is a Charleston-based historian and biographer of Harry Hervey.

A half-century before Midnight in the Garden, Savannahians were jolted out of pearl-clutching gentility by an earlier scandalous book: Harry Hervey’s The Damned Don’t Cry. Poverty-induced prostitution and veiled vengeance—it’s all there, plus more, in Hervey’s watershed work about his hometown.