Willie Morris

Jack Bales is the Reference and Humanities Librarian at the University of Mary Washington Library in Fredericksburg, Virginia. The author of numerous books and articles, he lives in Fredericksburg.

“exhaustive research...comprehensive”—Mississippi Magazine; “valuable”—Fredericksburg.com; “excellent”—Clarion Ledger; “useful and a joy to peruse...a must...fascinating”—Arkansas Review; “exhaustive research...comprehensive”—Delta Magazine; “the product of exhaustive research...comprehensive references”—The Southern Quarterly; “exemplary...a meticulous scholar...scrupulous documentation”—The American Oxonian.

• Table of ContentsForeword by Rick Bragg      Preface      Chronology      PARTNORTH TOWARD HOME TO MISSISSIPPI: THE LIFE AND WORKS OF WILLIE MORRISEarly Years (1934–1952)      College Days and Controversy (1952–1956)      An American Abroad (1956–1960)      Crusading Journalist (1960–1971)      Adrift on Long Island (1971–1979)      South Toward Home (1979–1999)      Epilogue      Notes      PARTPUBLISHED WRITINGS BY WILLIE MORRISContents      Books      The South Today: 100 Years After Appomattox      North Toward Home      Yazoo: Integration in a Deep-Southern Town      Good Old Boy: A Delta Boyhood      The Last of the Southern Girls      A Southern Album: Recollections of Some People and Places and Times Gone By      James Jones: A Friendship      Terrains of the Heart and Other Essays on Home      The Courting of Marcus Dupree      Always Stand In Against the Curve and Other Sports Stories      Good Old Boy and the Witch of Yazoo      Homecomings      Faulkner’s Mississippi      My Two Oxfords      After All, It’s Only a Game      New York Days      My Dog Skip      A Prayer for the Opening of the Little League Season      The Ghosts of Medgar Evers: A Tale of Race, Murder, Mississippi, and Hollywood      My Cat Spit McGee      My Mississippi      Taps: A Novel      Shifting Interludes: Selected Essays      Articles in the Daily Texan      Articles in the Texas Observer      Magazine and Journal Articles      Newspaper Articles      Contributions to Books      Introductions and Forewords      Book Reviews      Letters to the Editor      PARTPUBLISHED WRITINGS ABOUT WILLIE MORRISContents      Book Reviews      The South Today: 100 Years After Appomattox      North Toward Home      Yazoo: Integration in a Deep-Southern Town      Good Old Boy: A Delta Boyhood      The Last of the Southern Girls      A Southern Album: Recollections of Some People and Places and Times Gone By      James Jones: A Friendship      Terrains of the Heart and Other Essays on Home      The Courting of Marcus Dupree      Always Stand in Against the Curve and Other Sports Stories      Good Old Boy and the Witch of Yazoo      Homecomings      Faulkner’s Mississippi      After All, It’s Only a Game      New York Days      My Dog Skip      A Prayer for the Opening of the Little League Season      The Ghosts of Medgar Evers: A Tale of Race, Murder, Mississippi, and Hollywood      My Cat Spit McGee      My Mississippi      Taps: A Novel      Shifting Interludes: Selected Essays      Biographical and Critical Entries from Reference Works      Magazine and Journal Articles      Newspaper Articles      Books and Sections of Books      Theses and Dissertation      Selected Web Pages      Obituaries and Memorial Tributes      PARTA SENSE OF HISTORY: TRACING THE CIVILWAR WITHWILLIE MORRIS      Index