Willie Morris books in memoir and biography

An autobiography of John N. Herbers, a Civil Rights journalist, who witnessed a succession of civil rights uprisings. His story provides a understanding of how the southern status quo, in which the white establishment benefited at the expense of African Americans, was transformed by a national outcry for justice.

Presents a biography of nineteenth-century American poet and writer, Edgar Allan Poe, and traces his life and works and his contribution to American literature as well as the literary worlds of New York and Philadelphia in the 1800s.

Chronicles the life of Mississippi-born novelist and Civil War historian Shelby Foote.

Presents a biography of Katherine Anne Porter, author of the novel "Ship of Fools", and chronicles her childhood, her education, and her impact on the American literary scene.