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Willie Morris

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Gender Male
Death24 years ago
Date of birth November 29,1934
Zodiac sign Sagittarius
Born Jackson
Mississippi
United States
Date of died August 2,1999
DiedJackson
Mississippi
United States
ParentsHenry Rae Morris
Marion Weaks Morris
Job Author
Journalist
Novelist
Book editor
Education University of Oxford
The University of Texas at Austin
Date of Reg.
Date of Upd.
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North toward home
New York days
The courting of Marcus Dupree
My cat Spit McGee
Good Old Boy: A Delta Boyhood
My Mississippi
My Dog Skip
The last of the Southern girls
James Jones
Good Old Boy and the Witch of Yazoo
The ghosts of Medgar Evers
Yazoo: integration in a Deep-Southern town
Terrains of the Heart and Other Essays on Home
Faulkner's Mississippi
Prayer for the opening of the Little League season
Taps
Always Stand in Against the Curve: And Other Sports Stories
Conversations with Willie Morris
Shifting interludes
After all, it's only a game
My two Oxfords
A Southern Album: Recollections of Some People and Places and Times Gone By
Mein Hund Skip
Making Things Grow: The Story of Mississippi Chemical Corporation
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William Weaks "Willie" Morris, was an American writer and editor born in Jackson, Mississippi, though his family later moved to Yazoo City, Mississippi, which he immortalized in his works of prose. Morris' trademark was his lyrical prose style and reflections on the American South, particularly the Mississippi Delta.

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