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William Weaks "Willie" Morris 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. In 1967 he became the youngest editor of Harper's Magazine. He wrote several works of fiction and non-fiction, including his seminal book North Toward Home, as well as My Dog Skip.
Morris' parents moved to Yazoo City, Mississippi when he was just six months old. Yazoo City figures prominently in much of Morris' writing. After graduating as valedictorian of Yazoo City high…

My Dog Skip
My Cat Spit McGee
Faulkner's Mississippi
Good Old Boy: A Delta Boyhood
Good Old Boy and the Witch of Yazoo
The Courting of Marcus Dupree
New York Days
The Last of the Southern Girls
My Mississippi
Terrains of the Heart and Other Essays on Home
Ghosts of Medgar Evers
Homecomings
South Today
Always Stand in Against the Curve, and Other Sports Stories
Yazoo: Integration in a Deep-Southern Town
North Toward Home
After All, It's Only a Game
Prayer for the Opening of the Little League Season
James Jones: A Friendship
Taps