"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."
Terrains of the Heart And Other Essays on Home by WillieMorris Hardcover, Published 1981 by Yoknapatawpha Pr ISBN-13: 978-0-916242-13-8, ISBN: 0-916242-13-7
James Jones(1st Edition) A Friendship by WillieMorris, James. Morris Hardcover, 259 Pages, Published 1978 by Doubleday ISBN-13: 978-0-385-14432-2, ISBN: 0-385-14432-6
""Willie Morris gives us a finely tuned, funny, and heartrending elegy to his friend, James Jones, whose novels "From Here to Eternity" and "The Thin Red Line" immortalized the experiences of a whole generation of World War II victims and survivors. Morris, a former editor of Harper's and a prolific author in his own right, crafts a moving portrait that captures Jones's integrity, strength, and lust for life. Interwoven with recollection ..."
Good Old Boy A Delta Boyhood by WillieMorris Paperback, 143 Pages, Published 1974 by Yoknapatawpha Pr ISBN-13: 978-0-916242-10-7, ISBN: 0-916242-10-2
"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 ..."
Good Old Boy by WillieMorris Hardcover, 143 Pages, Published 1974 by Andre Deutsch Import ISBN-13: 978-0-233-96483-6, ISBN: 0-233-96483-5
"Jim Boden is the quintessence of the good-old-boy system in action, particularly at the college level of administration. Rising far above himself in his station in life, he personifies ineptitude and mediocrity. The story follows his rise and fall as a college administrator in a small, satellite campus of a community college, his bureaucratic style being his own downfall. The reader is left with bewilderment at how people of his ilk ..."
Good Old Boy by WillieMorris Paperback, Published 1980 by Yazoo Delta Press ISBN-13: 978-0-9604872-1-9, ISBN: 0-9604872-1-2
James Jones A friendship by WillieMorris Paperback, 316 Pages, Published 1979 by Dell Pub. Co ISBN-13: 978-0-440-14355-0, ISBN: 0-440-14355-1
""Willie Morris gives us a finely tuned, funny, and heartrending elegy to his friend, James Jones, whose novels "From Here to Eternity" and "The Thin Red Line" immortalized the experiences of a whole generation of World War II victims and survivors. Morris, a former editor of Harper's and a prolific author in his own right, crafts a moving portrait that captures Jones's integrity, strength, and lust for life. Interwoven with recollection ..."
North toward home by WillieMorris 438 Pages, Published 1977 by N.S. Berg ISBN-13: 978-0-910220-86-6, ISBN: 0-910220-86-7
"Willie Morris' cleverly conceived and brilliantly executed novel (loosely based on a real-life figure) follows this headstrong woman from her arrival in the Capital and traces the ups and downs of her life in the political and social whirl ..."
A SOUTHERN ALBUM Recollections of some people and places and times gone by. (SIGNED) by WillieMorris, Irwin Glusker Paperback, 150 Pages, Published 1975 by Oxmoor House, Inc. ISBN-13: 978-0-89104-058-3, ISBN: 0-89104-058-7