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	Willie Morris, Mississippi writer
		Morris, the son of Henry Rae and Marion Weaks Morris, was born in 1934 in Jackson, Mississippi.
		Willie Morris was also voted most versatile, wittiest, and most likely to succeed by his high school classmates.
		Willie's first recollection of a "good old boy" was a day in the first grade when his mother forgot to pick him up from school.
	www.shs.starkville.k12.ms.us /mswm/MSWritersAndMusicians/writers/Morris.html (3684 words)

	Encyclopedia: Willie Morris (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Willie Morris (November 29, 1934 â” August 2, 1999), 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.
		Morris graduated in 1956 and began studying history at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Willie-Morris (911 words)

	Willie Morris -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Willie Morris (November 29, 1934 — August 2, 1999), was an American writer and editor born in (additional info and facts about Jackson, Mississippi) Jackson, Mississippi.
		Morris' trademark was his lyrical prose style and reflections on the (additional info and facts about American South) American South, particularly the (additional info and facts about Mississippi Delta) Mississippi Delta.
		Morris graduated in 1956 and began studying history at (A university in England) Oxford University as a (A student who holds one of the scholarships endowed by the will of Cecil J. Rhodes that enables the student to study at Oxford University) Rhodes Scholar.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/w/wi/willie_morris.htm (479 words)

	Welcome to the Best of New Orleans!
		Willie and Vaccaro were returned to Louisiana to stand trial for the murder of Hathaway.
		After Willie’s execution, Morris says she learned that forgiveness is "not an event, but a process." And she found it easier to forgive Willie, than her mother, God – and herself.
		Morris was angry that she did not know until the next day that her daughter was gone.
	www.bestofneworleans.com /archives/2001/0327/news-feat2.html (1612 words)

	The Southerner \| Growing Up Southern
		Morris, stimulated by the book-lined walls, and the intellectual conversation, replied, "I want to be a writer." He swears that is the first time he had really thought about it, and that very night he went to the library, vowing to himself to read every important book ever written.
		Morris' shambling old faculty home on a tree-studded street on the campus was a gathering place for students, journalists, the affable and lovable Oxford mayor John Leslie, and assorted other wanderers of the night.
		Morris usually left his convertible parked in front of the magazine's headquarters, and one day as he left the office for lunch, he noted that Pete, long a familiar face at a gas station near his Long Island home, had somehow found his car and was riding shotgun.
	www.southerner.net /v1n3_99/growupso.html (8625 words)

	ReadingGroupGuides.com - Taps by Willie Morris
		Willie Morris was born in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1934.
		Morris held editorial roles at the Daily Texan and the Texas Observer, and was the youngest editor in chief of Harper's, the nation's oldest magazine.
		Morris used writing to express his dueling sense of alienation from and affection for his native state, and in doing so gave voice to a generation of displaced Southerners.
	www.readinggroupguides.com /guides3/taps2.asp (381 words)

	Yazoo
		Morris told an interviewer in 1979 that “if there is anything that makes southerners distinctive from the main body of Americans, it is a certain burden of memory and a burden of history....
		Morris clearly enjoyed his behind-the-scenes role in a major motion picture, and he was pleased when Hollywood beckoned again a couple of years later.
		And whether Willie Morris was considering the significance of home, family, sports, dogs, politics, the 1960s, or passionately exploring the paradoxical and complicated past of his native state, his prose always remained lively, fresh, and thought-provoking.
	www.yazoo.org /website/famous/famous_morris.htm (3177 words)

	Willie Morris by John Sledge
		Willie Morris was born a sixth generation Mississippian in Jackson in 1934.
		Morris later described Yazoo City as perched "on the edge of the Delta, straddling that memorable divide where the hills end and flat land begins." His childhood was filled with small town adventures-rambles through the woods and swamps with bosom buddies and beloved dogs, silly pranks and schoolyard rivalries.
		Willie Morris has been laid to rest in Yazoo City’s old cemetery, a place where he often went for literary inspiration.
	www.americanartists.org /art/article_willie_morris.htm (472 words)

	Welcome to the Best of New Orleans!
		Robert Lee Willie was executed in 1984 for the rape and murder of Faith Hathaway, a 19-year-old Mandeville woman killed by Willie and accomplice Joseph Vaccaro shortly before they kidnapped Brewster and Morris.
		Willie’s execution was depicted in the Oscar-winning movie Dead Man Walking, based on the book by Sister Helen Prejean, a New Orleans nun and spiritual adviser to Willie at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola.
		Morris heard Willie say they should lock her in the trunk and set the car on fire.
	www.bestofneworleans.com /archives/2001/0327/news-feat.html (1199 words)

	Salon Obituary \| Author Willie Morris dies at 64 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		For author Willie Morris, home was more than just a place: It was a concept that cropped up in his titles and echoed through his life.
		Morris, who developed what he called a "good ole boy" love for the South, grew up in Yazoo City, the small town that would become the focal point for many of his stories.
		Morris became associate editor of Harper's Magazine in 1963, and in 1967, the 33-year-old Morris became the youngest editor in chief of the nation's oldest magazine.
	www.salon.com /people/obit/1999/08/03/morris/print.html (584 words)

	CJR - Books - New York Days, by Willia Morris
		In 1967 Willie Morris, then thirty-two, wrote a charming book about his journey from Yazoo City, Mississippi, by way of Texas, into a passionate menage a trois, a simultaneous love affair with the Big City and Harper's, the magazine of which he was about to become editor-in-chief.
		Eventually Morris put a team of several writers on modest retainer, among them David Halberstam and Larry L. King, one of those Texans whom Willie describes as America's closest thing to Aussies.
		Morris has the last chuckle when, these twenty years later, he relates the fate of John Cowles, Jr.: he was deposed as head of what is left of the Cowles empire and when last seen was travelling with his wife in a theatrical troupe that engages in nude dancing.
	archives.cjr.org /year/93/5/books-morris.asp (1018 words)

	Willie Morris
		William Weaks Morris was born on November 29, 1934 in Jackson, Mississippi.
		Morris graduated top of his class in 1952 and enrolled in the University of Texas, where he became the editor of the student newspaper.
		Morris became an associate editor of Harper’s magazine in 1963 and editor-in-chief in 1967.
	www2.nemcc.edu /mspeople/willie_morris.htm (505 words)

	Texas Monthly May 2001: The Book on Willie Morris
		Willie's emotions were as primitive and as changeable as the weather.
		Willie applied the same qualities at UT that he had used to become a big duck in Yazoo City's small pond.
		Willie Morris knew how to roil placid waters, yes, but he pressed his attacks with style and humor.
	www.texasmonthly.com /mag/issues/2001-05-01/feature4.php (2048 words)

	Fictionwise eBooks: My Cat Spit McGee by Willie Morris
		Willie was always a dog man, as were almost all of the people he knew.
		But the woman Willie married turned out to be a cat woman, and on their first Christmas together, a little white waif found starving in a ditch off old Highway 51 outside Jackson, Mississippi, crept out from behind their Christmas tree with a red Yuletide ribbon around her neck.
		Willie was horrified, but that kitten eventually became the mother of Spit McGee, who is the subject of this surprising, beguiling, and altogether winning book.
	www.fictionwise.com /ebooks/eBook3678.htm (409 words)

	Willie Morris (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Willie Morris, a writer and a journalist, is a great cat lover.
		Willie Morris never gets to fully love this present, whose name is Rivers Applewhite, until she gives birth to Spit.
		Willie Morris saves Spit a further three times, once from a motorcycle hit and twice from an opossum.
	www.gorki.net /history/love2.html (308 words)

	Works of Lars Eighner at Lars Eighner's Homepage: A Dog and His Boy
		Indeed, Willie and his friends do turn up a blanket with a swastika on it, but not much comes of this because, as it turns out, the symbol was once very common in indigenous American art.
		As near as Morris comes to a reminder that there might be an ugly reality beneath the nostalgia is the observation that a white boy of twelve might express a barber-shop opinion in favor of the Dodgers, or he might even own a Jackie Robinson bat.
		Although Morris supposes his own family was not well off, they did have a car and seemed to have had money for gas, although when the war came along rationing threatened to cut down on Skip's driving.
	www.larseighner.com /works/reviews/my_dog_skip.html (871 words)

	Commentary Magazine - North Toward Home, by Willie Morris (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		...Willie Morris underwent such a conversion at the University of Texas, but the interesting point in his case is that he seems always to have kept his moorings and never to have floated out much beyond the middle-distance...
		...During the middle 50's, the years Morris went to college, the banality of fraternity life and the crudity of the athletes-"jocks," they were then called-combined to give most universities their distinctive character...
		...Because civility runs so deep in Willie Morris, he is one of those few writers of whom J. Salinger's Holden Caulfield remarked that after you had read their books you wanted to call them up on the telephone...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V45I1P76-1.htm (1576 words)

	Willie Morris, My Cat Spit McGee (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Willie Morris, a noted American writer of numerous works of fiction, memoirs and essays, and for many years a creative editor of Harper's magazine, has written a reminiscence about cats, focusing in particular on one special eponymous cat, in the book My Cat Spit McGee completed shortly before the author died in 1999.
		Morris spent most of his life in rural Mississippi, as a dog person, recording this in his exceedingly popular book, My Dog Skip which mostly celebrated the beloved canine companion of his boyhood and which was made into a successful film.
		For all of Morris' testimonials of affection for Spit and the other cats that followed, he often neglected to have his pets neutered, typical of southern rural culture, a significantly disturbing note in this otherwise captivating book filled with regional lore and background details.
	www.rambles.net /morris_spit.html (475 words)

	Amazon.com: North Toward Home (Vintage): Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Morris really struggled reconciling the race issue given his background in Mississippi and at one point when he was introduced, he said he was from North Carolina as he had become embarrassed to mention being from Mississippi.
		Morris degrades towards the usual descriptions of fraternities, football and fornication, common enough for the colleges of the later fifties and early sixties.
		Willie Morris opens his personal novel, North Toward Home, with the expected picture of the white South: Magnolia and pecan trees line the country roads, the farm kids ride the bus line from end to end for entertainment, and Miss Mississippi lives next door.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0375724605?v=glance (2842 words)

	Newswise
		Willie Morris, immortalized for his intellect, sweetness and generosity, posthumously donated his corneas has restored sight to two transplant recipients.
		Morris is known for mentoring countless writers, both personally and as the youngest-ever editor-in-chief of Harper's magazine in New York in the 1960s.
		Morris is credited as a major influence in changing postwar literary and journalistic history.
	www.newswise.com /articles/view?id=WRITER.MSM (1039 words)

	Viewpoint: In Memory of Willie Morris - Opinion
		On Saturday, Morris' widow JoAnne was present at the Delta Tau Delta house for the dedication of the Willie Morris room.
		Morris was an outspoken advocate for integration, which in 1956 Texas was not the most popular position.
		While Morris' efforts did help end the overt censorship of the Texan, the aftermath he left was quite severe.
	www.dailytexanonline.com /media/paper410/news/2002/04/15/Opinion/Viewpoint.In.Memory.Of.Willie.Morris-502287.shtml (768 words)

	Amazon.com: Good Old Boy: A Delta Boyhood: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		I wish Willie Morris had not died so young because I found his work so enjoyable, and it would have been wonderful to read even more of his writing.
		Morris up on the same level as Mark Twain (and he probably would not want it either), but this book reminds me in a lot of ways of Tom Sawyer--a young boy's life on the Mississippi Delta.
		Though young readers won't recognize Morris as a writer, this story of his youth is wonderful.It starts with a witch, moves on to sports- his dog is on the team and then goes to more mayhem with haunted houses and robbers.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0916242102?v=glance (978 words)

	Rivals.com - Ron's Special: Up close with Dr. Willie Morris III
		Willie was born in New Rochelle, New York, and after graduating from ECU as an education major and getting his masters degree from Stephen F. Austin University, he taught saxophone at Alcorn State University.
		Willie would like to think he is one of a kind and I can affirm that I have never seen a man with so much enthusiasm and spirit.
		Willie prepared a speech for the banquet since his hopes were not great for an appearance.
	www.rivals.com /content.asp?CID=420450 (692 words)

	ThePoop.com - Media Hounds: My Dog Skip
		Willie's ninth birthday gives her an opportunity to offer him both, in the form of a Jack Russell terrier puppy that the delighted Willie names Skip.
		The resulting book was indeed affectionate and tender, as Morris recalled his early life as a shy young child in the South and his special relationship with his dog, a friendship that helped young Willie face many of life's bigger challenges.
		Morris strove for a tone that reflected the innocence of a time gone by and respect for the freshness of a child's perceptions.
	www.thepoop.com /mediahounds/mydogskip (2611 words)

	Willie L. Morris III
		Willie L. Morris, III is on the music faculty at the University of Dayton.
		Willie Morris is active as a classical and jazz saxophonist, teacher and clinician.
		Morris has made a compact disc recording of the Creston works for saxophone to accompany his dissertation titled, The Development of the Saxophone Compositions of Paul Creston.
	www153.pair.com /bensav/Interpretes/Morris.W.html (315 words)

	The Willie Morris Fund (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		On behalf of the James Jones Literary Society and because of its appreciation for Willie's friendship with and support of author James Jones and his works, I am enclosing a check for $100 for the Willie Morris Fund.
		Willie was a good and decent man who will be sorely missed by those who knew him personally and by those who knew him through his writings.
		And Willie drove to Robinson and Springfield for symposia to celebrate his friend's life and works on two occasions.
	rking.vinu.edu /ray.htm (327 words)

	Press Release for Taps published by Houghton Mifflin Company
		JoAnne Prichard Morris was born in Indianola, Mississippi, in 1944.
		She has said that her marriage to Willie was "a very happy and a richly textured one, based on books and writing, love of the ragged beauty of our native Mississippi, politics, friends, family, and Willie's wonderful capacity for generating warmth and fun everywhere he went."
		Writers, friends, and fans of Willie Morris will gather in his hometown of Yazoo City, Mississippi to reminisce, laugh, and express appreciation for the life and work of the town's most celebrated son and one of America's most beloved writers.
	www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com /booksellers/press_release/taps (2381 words)

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