had demonstrated a fondness in his fictional work. Personal life Crabb married Bertha Gardner on August 16, 1911. They had one son, Dr. Alfred Leland Crabb, Jr., who taught English at the University of Kentucky and founded the Central Kentucky Radio Eye, a radio reading service, in part due to his father's struggle with blindness as he aged. Crabb was Presbyterian, and he taught Bible school at the Downtown Presbyterian Church in Nashville for twenty-one years. Crabb died on October 1, 1979 in Lexington, Kentucky. Further reading References External links Guide to the Alfred Leland Crabb Supper at the Maxwell House manuscript, housed at the University of Kentucky Libraries Special Collections Research Center Guide to the Alfred Leland Crabb manuscript, housed at the University of Kentucky Libraries Special Collections Research Center 1884 births 1979 deaths People from Plum Springs, Kentucky Vanderbilt University alumni Columbia University alumni Western Kentucky University faculty Vanderbilt University faculty 20th-century American novelists American historical novelists Novelists from Kentucky American male novelists 20th-century American male writers Novelists from Tennessee