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In Search of Willie Morris
Larry L. King
The Murcurial Life of a Legendary Writer and Editor
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February 2006
353 pages ISBN: 1586483846 Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Biography
The intimate biography of the charismatic, hugely
talented, influential, and troubled Willie Morris-star
editor of Harper's in the 1960s and author of
North Toward Home and My Dog Skip Willie
Morris, the famously talented-and complex-writer and editor,
helped to remake American journalism and wrote more than a
dozen books, with several classics among them. His time at
the head of Harper's magazine, where he was made
editor at age thirty-two, is legendary. With writers like
David Halberstam, Norman Mailer, and author of this book,
Larry L. King, Harper's became the magazine to read
and the place to be in print. Morris was friend, colleague,
or mentor to a remarkable cast of writers-William Styron,
James Jones, Truman Capote, George Plimpton, Gay Talese, and
later in life, Barry Hannah, Donna Tartt, John Grisham, and
Winston Groom. In Search of Willie Morris is
a wise, sometimes raucous, and moving look at Morris that
conveys the energy and activity of the years at the top and
the troubles, talents, late rallies, and mysteries of his
later life. Written with the affection of a close friend and
the critical insight of a fellow writer, it is an absorbing
biography of an extraordinarily gifted literary man and
raconteur who inspired both wonder and frustration, and who
left behind a legacy and a body of work that endures.
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