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= Harrison Scott Key = Harrison Scott Key (born July 5, 1975) is an American writer. His memoir The World's Largest Man won the 2016 Thurber Prize for American Humor.

Education
Key holds a B.A. in psychology from Belhaven University, an M.S. in theater from Texas A&M University-Commerce, an M.F.A. in writing from Savannah College of Art and Design, and Ph.D. in playwriting from Southern Illinois University Carbondale.

Career
Key has worked at Savannah College of Art and Design since 2007, where he has taught English and writing.

His essays and humor have been published at Oxford American, The New York Times, Outside, The American Bystander, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Southern Living, The Bitter Southerner, Image, Creative Nonfiction, and other websites and periodicals.

In 2015, Key's debut memoir, The World's Largest Man, was published by Harper and named by Kirkus one of the "Best Books of 2015." In 2016, it won the 2016 Thurber Prize for American Humor. Stories in The World's Largest Man inspired the song "Alive and In Between" by Mac McAnally, on his album Once In a Lifetime. Key has adapted and performed "The Wishbone," a chapter from The World's Largest Man for ep. 626 of Snap Judgement.

In 2018, Key published his second book, Congratulations, Who Are You Again?, with Harper Perennial. This memoir focuses on the pressures of having a family and a career while pursuing creative fulfillment.

In 2019, Key delivered a TEDx talk called "The Funny Thing About the American Dream."

Memoir and Autobiography

 * The World's Largest Man. Harper, 2015. ISBN: 978-0062351500.
 * Congratulations, Who Are You Again?. Harper Perennial, 2018. ISBN: 978-0062843302.

Anthologies

 * "The Meek Shall Inherit the Memoir." Southern Writers On Writing, Susan Cushman, ed. University Press of Mississippi, 2018. ISBN: 978-1496815002.
 * "The Wishbone." True Stories, Well Told: From the First 20 Years of Creative Nonfiction Magazine, Lee Gutkind, ed. In Fact Books, 2014. ISBN: 978-1937163167.
 * "Fifty Shades of Greyhound." Best American Travel Writing 2014, Paul Theroux, ed. Houghton Mifflin, 2014. ISBN: 978-0544330153.

Personal Life
Key was born in Memphis, Tennessee, and grew up in Mississippi, where he first began writing funny stories as a boy."I’ve always loved making people laugh. I remember being at some event when I was really young — a wedding or funeral or something — and going up to all the elderly guests and asking them their age. [...] And every time I asked, they laughed, and more and more laughed, so I asked everyone. I wasn’t sure why they were laughing, but I liked it, because when old people are laughing, it sometimes seems like they’re about to die from a heart attack, and I wanted to see that. Eventually, my mother found me and told me to stop, and then I asked her how old she was, and then everybody laughed even more, and I’ve been drunk with power ever since."Key currently lives in Savannah, Georgia, with his wife and children.