Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. 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. 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. 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%u2014 William Styron, James Jones, Truman Capote, George Plimpton, Gay Talese, and later in life, Barry Hannah, Donna Tartt, John Grisham, and Winston Groom. Donna Tartt seems, in many ways, a figure from another decade: a small, hard-drinking, southern writer, a Catholic convert, witheringly smart, with an occluded past, sadness among the. With writers like David Halberstam, Norman Mailer, and author of this book, Larry L. His time at the head of Harper's magazine, where he was made editor at age thirty-two, is legendary. Willie Morris, the famously talented%u2014and complex%u2014writer and editor, helped to remake American journalism and wrote more than a dozen books, with several classics among them.
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