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Books by Willie Morris
  | | Good Old Boy A Delta Boyhood by Willie Morris Paperback, 143 Pages, Published 2000 by Yoknapatawpha Press ISBN-13: 978-0-916242-68-8, ISBN: 0-916242-68-4 "Good Old Boy: A Delta Boyhood is a novel for young readers about a boy's adventures growing up in post-WWII Mississippi. Author Willie Morris, then editor of Harper's Magazine in New York, wrote Good Old Boy when his son David, age ten, asked, What was it like to grow up in the South? Morris s response turned into a timeless story of growing up in a small Southern town, Yazoo City in the early 1950s, roaming the town with his friends an ..." |
 | | Taps(Reprint) A Novel by Willie Morris Paperback, 352 Pages, Published 2002 by Mariner Books ISBN-13: 978-0-618-21902-5, ISBN: 0-618-21902-1 "The final work from one of America's most beloved authors and an instant classic, TAPS takes readers on one last fictional journey to Willie Morris's South and spins a tender, powerful, very American story about the vanishing beauty of a charmed way of life and the fleeting boyhood of a young man coming of age in a time of war. In Fisk’s Landing, Mississippi, at the dawn of the Korean War, sixteen-year-old Swayze Barksdale is suddenly c ..." |
 | | North Toward Home(1st Edition) by Willie Morris Paperback, 464 Pages, Published 2000 by Vintage ISBN-13: 978-0-375-72460-2, ISBN: 0-375-72460-5 "With his signature style and grace, Willie Morris, arguably one of this country's finest Southern writers, presents us with an unparalleled memoir of a country in transition and a boy coming of age in a period of tumultuous cultural, social, and political change. In North Toward Home, Morris vividly recalls the South of his childhood with all of its cruelty, grace, and foibles intact. He chronicles desegregation and the rise of Lyndon ..." |
 | | My Cat Spit McGee(1st Edition) by Willie Morris Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 2000 by Vintage Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-375-70693-6, ISBN: 0-375-70693-3 "With endearing humor and unabashed compassion, Willie Morris--a self-declared dog man and author of the classic paean to canine kind, My Dog Skip--reveals the irresistible story of his unlikely friendship with a cat. Forced to confront a lifetime of kitty-phobia when he marries a cat woman, Willie discovers that Spit McGee, a feisty kitten with one blue and one gold eye, is nothing like the foul felines that lurk in his nightmares. For ..." |
 | | The Ghosts of Rowan Oak(1st Edition) School Edition by Willie Morris, Dean Faulkner Wells, Lawrence Wells, Edwin Yoder, Cover Art Paperback, 86 Pages, Published 1996 by Yoknapatawpha Press ISBN-13: 978-0-916242-16-9, ISBN: 0-916242-16-1 "In the 1940s at his home, Rowan Oak, in Oxford, Mississippi, Nobel Prize-winning author William Faulkner told ghost stories to the children in his family. Faulkner's niece, Dean Faulkner Wells, has recounted the haunting and heartbreaking story of "Judith," the chilling tale of "The Werewolf," and the macabre story of "The Hound." This school edition includes an Introduction by Willie Morris, illustrated biography of William Faulkner, ..." |
 | | My Dog Skip(1st Edition) by Willie Morris, William. Morris Paperback, 128 Pages, Published 1996 by Vintage Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-679-76722-0, ISBN: 0-679-76722-3 "Now a major motion picture form Warner Brothers, starring Kevin Bacon, Diane Lane, Luke Wilson, Frankie Muniz, and "Eddie" from the TV show Frasier (as Skip), and produced by Mark Johnson (Rain Man).In 1943 in a sleepy town on the banks of the Yazoo River, a boy fell in love with a puppy with a lively gait and an intellingent way of listening. The two grew up together having the most wonderful adventures. A classic story of a boy, a d ..." |
 | | New York Days by Willie Morris Paperback, 408 Pages, Published 1994 by Back Bay Books ISBN-13: 978-0-316-58398-5, ISBN: 0-316-58398-7 "In New York Days, the long-awaited sequel to the prize-winning North Toward Home, Willie Morris recalls his triumphant, exciting, and ultimately devastating years as the youngest ever editor-in-chief of Harper's, America's oldest magazine, when he was at the center of the nation's stunning cosmos of writing, publishing, politics, and the arts. It was the 1960s, when New York City was a place "throbbing with possibility" and "in which ev ..." |
 | | Always Stand in Against the Curve(2nd Edition) And Other Sports Stories by Willie Morris Paperback, 152 Pages, Published 2016 by Yoknapatawpha Press ISBN-13: 978-0-916242-25-1, ISBN: 0-916242-25-0 "Willie Morris's collection of sports stories, Always Stand In Against The Curve, is a book for those of us lucky enough to have shot baskets under a driveway or shagged fly balls in open fields until it was too dark to see the hoop or the ball against the sky. In Morris's soulful point of view, sports is about growing up in America, radio broadcasts of the Brooklyn Dodgers in a Mississippi country store, girls with double names, practic ..." |
 | | The Courting of Marcus Dupree(Reprint) by Willie Morris Paperback, 464 Pages, Published 1992 by University Press Of Mississippi ISBN-13: 978-0-87805-585-2, ISBN: 0-87805-585-1 "At the time of Marcus Dupree's birth, when Deep South racism was about to crest and shatter against the Civil Rights Movement, Willie Morris journeyed north in a circular transit peculiar to southern writers. His memoir of those years, North Toward Home, became a modern classic. In The Courting of Marcus Dupree he turned again home to Mississippi to write about the small town of Philadelphia and its favorite son, a black hig ..." |
 | | My Cat Spit McGee(1st Edition) by Willie Morris Hardcover, 160 Pages, Published 1999 by Random House ISBN-13: 978-0-375-50321-4, ISBN: 0-375-50321-8 "Willie Morris never liked cats—indeed, he had a loathing of cats going back to his childhood. Willie was always a dog man, as were almost all of the people he knew. My Dog Skip, his moving tribute to the dog he loved in boyhood, became an instant classic and then a captivating film. And when his beloved black Lab, Pete, died, and his friends asked, "Will you get another dog?" Willie replied, "No, I'll get another wife ..." |
 | | New York Days by Willie Morris Hardcover, 396 Pages, Published 1993 by Little Brown & Co ISBN-13: 978-0-316-58421-0, ISBN: 0-316-58421-5 "The author of North Toward Home describes his years as the youngest-ever editor in chief of Harper's, recounting how he rubbed elbows with the likes of Woody Allen and Bobby Kennedy. 35,000 first printing. $35,000 ad/promo." |
 | | The Last of the Southern Girls(1st Edition) by Willie Morris Hardcover, 287 Pages, Published 1973 by Alfred A Knopf ISBN-13: 978-0-394-46101-4, ISBN: 0-394-46101-0 "Carol Hollywell is beautiful, smart, elegant, and charming. A debutante from De Soto Point, Arkansas, and a recent graduate of Ole Miss, she is heir to a good southern name and a small southern fortune. She knows what she wants and, more important, knows how to get it. She is, in other words, the prototypical southern belle, a Scarlett O'Hara for the 1950s, and when she moves to Washington, D.C., in 1957, she sets, the town on its ear. ..." |
 | | Terrains of the Heart and Other Essays on Home(81st Edition) by Willie Morris Paperback, 265 Pages, Published 1981 by Yoknapatawpha Pr ISBN-13: 978-0-916242-23-7, ISBN: 0-916242-23-4 "A collection of 21 distinguished biographical essays by one of America's most revered authors; arranged chronologically as Willie Morris moved across America from New York City to Bridgehampton, in eastern Long Island, to Washington, D.C., as journalist in residence at the Washington Star newspaper; and finally, his return in 1980 to his native Mississippi to serve as writer in residence at Ole Miss." |
 | | Love, Daddy Letters from My Father (Hardcover) by David Rae Morris, Willie Morris, Kaylie Jones Hardcover, 224 Pages, Published 2022 by University Press Of Mississippi, Jackson ISBN-13: 978-1-4968-3857-5, ISBN: 1-4968-3857-2 "The collection begins in early 1976 and continues for more than twenty years as David Rae moved about the country, living in New York, Massachusetts, Texas, Mississippi, Tennessee, and Minnesota, before finally settling in Louisiana." |
 | | My Mississippi(1st Edition) by Willie Morris, David Rae Morris, Mercedes Vidrine Hardcover, 109 Pages, Published 2000 by University Press Of Mississippi ISBN-13: 978-1-57806-193-8, ISBN: 1-57806-193-8 "A father and son's eloquent portrait and personal evocations of modern Mississippi An exerpt from the book: "Through the years two of the most singular extremes have been the desire, on the one hand, to dwell forever with all the myths and trimmings of a vanished culture which may never have truly existed in the first place, certainly not the way we wished it to, and the frantic compulsion, on the other, to reforge ourselves as an appe ..." |
 | | North Toward Home(1st Edition) by Willie Morris Hardcover, 456 Pages, Published 1999 by Univ Pr Of Mississippi ISBN-13: 978-1-57806-266-9, ISBN: 1-57806-266-7 "With his signature style and grace, Willie Morris, arguably one of this country's finest Southern writers, presents us with an unparalleled memoir of a country in transition and a boy coming of age in a period of tumultuous cultural, social, and political change. In North Toward Home, Morris vividly recalls the South of his childhood with all of its cruelty, grace, and foibles intact. He chronicles desegregation and the rise of Lyndon ..." |
 | | The Last of the Southern Girls A Novel (Voices of the South) by Willie Morris Paperback, 304 Pages, Published 1994 by Lsu Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8071-1956-3, ISBN: 0-8071-1956-3 "Carol Hollywell is beautiful, smart, elegant, and charming. A debutante from De Soto Point, Arkansas, and a recent graduate of Ole Miss, she is heir to a good southern name and a small southern fortune. She knows what she wants and, more important, knows how to get it. She is, in other words, the prototypical southern belle, a Scarlett O’Hara for the 1950s, and when she moves to Washington, D.C., in 1957, she sets the town on its ear.Wi ..." |
 | | Yazoo(1st Edition) integration in a Deep-Southern town by Willie Morris Hardcover, 192 Pages, Published 1971 by Harper's Magazine Press ISBN-13: 978-0-06-126390-3, ISBN: 0-06-126390-7 "Hardcover: 192 pages Publisher: Harper's Magazine Press; 1st edition (1971) Language: English" |
 | | Shifting Interludes(Reprint) Selected Essays (Paperback) by Willie Morris, Jack Bales Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2017 by University Press Of Mississippi ISBN-13: 978-1-4968-1321-3, ISBN: 1-4968-1321-9 "In the course of his career Willie Morris (1934-1999) attained national prominence as a journalist, editor, nonfiction writer, novelist, memoirist, and news commentator. As this eloquent book reveals, he was also a master essayist whose gift was in crafting short compositions. Shifting Interludes, an anthology that spans his career of forty years, includes pieces he wrote for the Daily Texan, Texas Observer, the Washington Star, Vanity ..." |
 | | NORTH TOWARD HOME by Willie Morris, Bernard Shaw Published 2016 by Unknown ISBN-13: 978-1-199-14895-7, ISBN: 1-199-14895-4 |
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