North Toward Home by Willie Morris
Book description
In his signature style and grace, Willie Morris, one of this country’s finest writers, presents us with an unparalleled memoir of a boy coming of age in the South during a period of tumultuous cultural, social, and political change.
In North Toward Home, Morris vividly recalls the South of his childhood with all of its cruelty, grace, and foibles intact. He chronicles desegregation and the rise of Lyndon Johnson in Texas in the 50s and the 60s, and New York in the 1960s, where he became the controversial editor of Harper’s magazine. North Toward Home is the perceptive story of the education of an observant and intelligent young man, and a gifted writer’s keen observations on a country in transition. It is, as Walker Percy wrote, “a touching, deeply felt and memorable account of one man’s pilgrimage.” Published in 1999, 438 pages.
Description from book jacket
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Discussion questions
General memoir questions from readinggroupguides.com
Additional information
The University of Mississippi has provided an excellent biography.
Other books by Willie Morris
Good Old Boy: a Delta Boyhood—an autobiography written 13 years after North Toward Home.
Terrains of the Heart—a collection of 21 biographical essays
New York Days—an autobiography written 26 years after North Toward Home
My Dog Skip—an autobiography focusing on Willis’s boyhood relationship with his dog which was later turned into a film