+17 Willie Morris 2024
+17 Willie Morris 2024. Willie morris, the writer and editor whose life and work reveled in the endless contradictions of the south and the region's ghostlike hold on its native sons and daughters, died on monday at st. The last of the southern girls (voices of the south) willie morris.

William weaks willie morris (november 29, 1934 — august 2, 1999), 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. Donna tartt:.writing quickly impressed mississippi writer willie morris, who recommended her work to barry hannah, then writer in residence at the university. A tale of race, murder, mississippi, and hollywood.