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During the three decades since the Sunday Times trumpeted North Toward Home as the finest evocation of an American boyhood since Mark Twain , Willie Morris (1934-1999) wrote seventeen other…
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Jack Bales
William Weaks Morris was a writer defined in large measure by his southern roots. This volume is a comprehensive reference to Willie Morris’ life and works. It also provides an…
Using newspaper articles, books and archival records, this book chronicles the Chicago Cub’s early planning stages from 1868 to 1902. Reprinted selections from firsthand accounts provide a colourful narrative of…
An annotated bibliography of criticism, divided into general criticism and criticism of Forbes as a children’s writer.
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Willie Morris
In the course of his career Willie Morris (1934-1999) attained national prominence as a journalist, editor, nonfiction writer, novelist, memoirist, and news commentator. As this eloquent book reveals, he was…
In the summer of 1932, with the Cubs in the thick of the pennant race, Billy Jurges broke off his relationship with Violet Popovich to focus on baseball. The famously…
In the course of his career Willie Morris (1934-1999) attained prominence as a journalist, editor, nonfiction writer, novelist, memoirist, and news commentator. As this eloquent book reveals, he was also…
Kenneth Roberts
The complete text of Roberts’ last historical novel, presented for the first time with contemporary–and conflicting–accounts of the shipwreck on which the novel was based.