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In Search of Willie Morris: The Mercurial Life of a Legendary Writer and Editor
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In Search of Willie Morris: The Mercurial Life of a Legendary Writer and Editor Hardcover - 2006

by Larry L. King


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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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  • Title In Search of Willie Morris: The Mercurial Life of a Legendary Writer and Editor
  • Author Larry L. King
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 353
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher PublicAffairs, New York
  • Date 2006-03
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9781586483845 / 1586483846
  • Weight 1.52 lbs (0.69 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.52 x 6.22 x 1.23 in (24.18 x 15.80 x 3.12 cm)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2005045643
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

About the author

Native Texan Larry L. King is a novelist, journalist, and playwright. He is the only writer to be a finalist for a unique "Triple Crown" of American letters: a National Book Award, a Broadway Tony, and a television Emmy. The author of fourteen books, King has been a contributing editor at Harper's, New Times, Audience, Parade, The Texas Observer, and Texas Monthly. He lives in Washington, D.C. with his wife-lawyer-agent, Barbara S. Blaine.
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