In Search of Willie Morris: The Mercurial Life of a Legendary Writer and Editor

In Search of Willie Morris: The Mercurial Life of a Legendary Writer and Editor
by Larry L. King

In Search of Willie Morris: The Mercurial Life of a Legendary Writer and Editor
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Author: Larry L. King
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Published)
Format: Bargain Price
Published: 2006-03-06
ISBN: N/A
Number of pages: 353
Publisher: PublicAffairs

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Book Review: Willie's back in town
Summary: 5 Stars

I didn't discover Willie Morris until shortly after he died. After reading North Toward Home and New York Days, I gladly would have traveled across the continent to meet him. Few persons are born with as much charm, and fewer still are born with as much intellect. Now Larry L. King has brought Willie back to life in the pages of a generous and understanding biography. You won't find a better opportunity to revel in Willie's company one more time.

Summary of In Search of Willie Morris: The Mercurial Life of a Legendary Writer and Editor

Willie Morris, the famously talented-and complex-writer and editor, helped to remake American journalism and wrote more than a dozen books, with several classics among them. His time at the head of Harper's magazine, where he was made editor at age thirty-two, is legendary. With writers like David Halberstam, Norman Mailer, and author of this book, Larry L. 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- William Styron, James Jones, Truman Capote, George Plimpton, Gay Talese, and later in life, Barry Hannah, Donna Tartt, John Grisham, and Winston Groom. 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. 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.
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