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(1934-1999) Writer, editor. Willie Morris was born in and died in Jackson, Mississippi. He lived for several years in Bridgehampton, New York.

Full Name

William "Willie" Weaks Morris

Locations

Suffolk

Author's Timeline


Unknown

RESIDENCE

Mr. Morris lived in Bridgehampton, New York, for several years.

1934

BIRTH

William "Willie" Weaks Morris was born on November 29, 1934, in Jackson, Mississippi.

1967

LITWORK

North Toward Home
Houghton Mifflin Company

Autobiography.

1971

LITWORK

Good Old Boy: A Delta Boyhood
Harper & Row
0060243368 / 978-0060243364
Novel for young readers.

1971

LITWORK

Yazoo: Integration In A Deep-Southern Town
Harper's Magazine Press
0061263907 / 978-0061263903
Nonfiction.

1973

LITWORK

The Last Of The Southern Girls
Alfred A. Knopf
0394461010 / 978-0394461014
Novel.

1981

LITWORK

Terrains Of The Heart And Other Essays On Home
Yoknapatawpha Press
916242131
Collection of essays.

1983

LITWORK

The Courting Of Marcus Dupree
Doubleday
0385180098 / 978-0385180092
Nonfiction.

1993

LITWORK

New York Days
Little Brown & Company
0316584215 / 978-0316584210
Nonfiction.

1995

LITWORK

My Dog Skip
Random House
0679441441 / 978-0679441441
Nonfiction.

1999

DEATH

Willie Morris died at Saint Dominic Hospital in Jackson, Mississippi, on August 2, 1999.

1999

INTERMENT

Willie Morris is interred at Glenwood Cemetery, Yazoo City, Yazoo County, Mississippi.

1999

LITWORK

My Cat Spit McGee
Random House
0375503218 / 978-0375503214
Nonfiction.

2001

LITWORK

Taps: A Novel
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
0618098593 / 978-0618098590
Novel.

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