The Ghosts of Rowan Oak (Paperback)

from marient

A memoir of a boy coming of age in the South during a period of tumultuous cultural, social, and political change. Morris chronicles desegration and the rise of Lyndon Johnson in Texas in the 50's and 60's, and New York in the 1960's, where he became the controversial editor of Harper's magazine....

from edwin.gleaves

Perhaps the most influential book of my young adulthood, one that I felt compelled to share with others.

from TimBazzett

I read Morris's charming little book about his boyhood, MY DOG SKIP, about ten years ago and rather enjoyed it. That book led me, if a bit belatedly, to this more comprehensive memoir, NORTH TOWARD HOME. The book is divided into three distinct parts: his boyhood and youth in Yazoo City, Mississip...

from kraaivrouw

This is a memoir by Willie Morris covering his childhood in Yazoo City, MS, his tenure as editor of the University of Texas paper, his time as editor of the Texas Observer, & his time at Harper's Magazine in New York. I have connections to a lot of this - my mother's family is from Mississippi (E...

from marient

A memoir of a boy coming of age in the South during a period of tumultuous cultural, social, and political change. Morris chronicles desegration and the rise of Lyndon Johnson in Texas in the 50's and 60's, and New York in the 1960's, where he became the controversial editor of Harper's magazine....