Willie Morris:
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• Bales, Jack. Conversations with Willie Morris. [Interviews and profiles.] Literary Conversations Series. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2000.
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• Carr, John. "Honkies, Editors, & Other Dirty Stories: Larry L. King." [Interview]. In Kite-Flying and Other Irrational Acts: Conversations with Twelve Southern Writers. Baton Rouge: Louisiana University Press, 1972, 120-48.
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• Ford, Richard. "Southern Manners." New York Times Magazine (2 January 2000): 45.
• Frost, David. "The South Is a Split Infinitive Trying to Get Together: Willie Morris." [Interview]. In The Americans. New York: Stein and Day, 1970, 102-109.
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• Johnson, Rheta Grimsley. "A Very 'Happy Puppy' Writes in Jackson, Miss." Atlanta Journal-Constitution (2 April 1995): B1.
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• Kennedy, J. Michael. "It's a Dog's Life." Los Angeles Times (29 June 1995): E1, E5.
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• King, Larry L. "Looking Back on the Crime, or Rememberin' Willie and Them." In The Old Man and Lesser Mortals. New York: Viking Press, 1974, 285-300.
• King, Larry L. None but a Blockhead: On Being a Writer. New York: Viking, 1986.
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• Lott, Trent. "Willie Morris, Honoring the Life of a Great Southern Writer." Congressional Record. 106th Congress, 1st session (5 August 1999): S10214.
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• "Morris Quits at Harper's; Cites 'Severe Disagreements.'" Publishers' Weekly 199 (15 March 1971): 51.
• Moss, William. "Morris, Willie." In Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, ed. Charles Reagan Wilson and William Ferris. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1989, 967.
• Parshall, Gerald. "The Yarn Spinner from Yazoo." U.S. News & World Report 115 (13 September 1993): 75-76.
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Selected Book Reviews and Criticism:

• Adam, Anthony J. Review of The Ghosts of Medgar Evers. Library Journal 123 (15 February 1998): 144.
• Andrews, William L. "In Search of a Common Identity: The Self and the South in Four Mississippi Autobiographies." Southern Review, n.s., 24 (Winter 1988): 47-64.
• Anson, Brooke. Review of Good Old Boy. Library Journal 97 (15 January 1972): 290.
• Atchity, Kenneth John. "Mississippi to Manhattan and Return." Review of Terrains of the Heart and Other Essays on Home. Los Angeles Times (13 November 1981): V26.
• "Authors & Editors." Publishers' Weekly 192 (9 October 1967): 21-22.
• "Authors & Editors." Publishers' Weekly 199 (14 June 1971): 15-16.
• Avant, John Alfred. Review of The Last of the Southern Girls. Library Journal 98 (15 May 1973): 1601.
• Beaufort, John. "On to 'the Big Cave.'" Review of North Toward Home. Christian Science Monitor (16 November 1967): 15.
• Bernstein, Richard. "Recalling a Racial Killing and the Movie about It." Review of The Ghosts of Medgar Evers. New York Times (11 February 1998): B12.
• Bobbitt, Joan. "Willie Morris." In Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook: 1980, ed. Karen L. Rood, Jean W. Ross, and Richard Ziegfeld. Detroit: Gale Research Co., 1981, 270-76.
• Bolle, Sonja. Review of Good Old Boy and the Witch of Yazoo. Los Angeles Times Book Review (1 April 1990): 6.
• "Books about the South." Review of Homecomings. Southern Living 25 (August 1990): 59.
• "Books about the South." Review of My Cat Spit McGee. Southern Living 34 (November 1999): 124.
• "Books about the South." Review of Taps. Southern Living 36 (June 2001): 46.
• "Books about the South." Review of Terrains of the Heart and Other Essays on Home. Southern Living 16 (December 1981): 120.
• Bradley, David. "Race and the Halfback." Review of The Courting of Marcus Dupree. New York Times Book Review (18 December 1983): 11, 18.
• Brookhiser, Richard. "Metropolitan Diary." Review of New York Days. Commentary 96 (November 1993): 56-58.
• Brown, Beth. Review of The Courting of Marcus Dupree. Journal of Black Studies 17 (June 1987): 511-13.
• Caldwell, Gail. "Willie Morris' Southern Fire Is Still Burning." Review of Homecomings. Boston Globe (10 January 1990): 69.
• Campbell, Julia. Review of The Ghosts of Medgar Evers. People Weekly 49 (23 February 1998): 40.
• Carroll, J. Speed. "Bright Boy from Yazoo." Review of North Toward Home. New Republic 157 (18 November 1967): 32-34.
• Carter III, Hodding. "There's a Snopes in Each of Us, But Will He Win Out?" Review of Yazoo. Washington Post Book World (4 July 1971): 3.
• Carter, John M. Review of The South Today. Library Journal 90 (August 1965): 3302.
• Conrads, David. "Portrayal of Small-Town Life Travels Familiar Ground." Review of Taps. Christian Science Monitor (5 April 2001): 21.
• Corbett, Edward P. J. Review of North Toward Home. America 117 (9 December 1967): 720.
• Craig, David Cobb. "Book of the Week." Review of My Cat Spit McGee. People Weekly 53 (24 January 2000): 45.
• Crews, Harry. "A Pet Peeve: Morris Fumbles Recruiting Story." Review of The Courting of Marcus Dupree. Chicago Tribune Book World (20 November 1983): 35.
• DeLapo, Josephine A. Review of The Courting of Marcus Dupree. Library Journal 108 (1 November 1983): 2095.
• Devereaux, Elizabeth. "Willie Morris's New York Memoir." Review of New York Days. Publishers Weekly 240 (7 June 1993):18.
• Donaldson, Scott. "A Memoir of 'Harper's' Heyday." Review of New York Days. USA Today (3 September 1993): D4.
• Dunlap, Benjamin. Review of A Southern Album. New Republic 173 (13 December 1975): 27-28.
• Eaton, Clement. Review of North Toward Home. Journal of Southern History 2 (May 1968): 333-34.
• Eder, Richard. "Southern Elegy." Review of Taps. New York Times Book Review (22 April 2001): 23.
• Elson, John. "Willie Boy Was Here." Review of New York Days. Time 142 (13 September 1993): 76.
• Epstein, Joseph. "Most Likely to Succeed." Review of North Toward Home. Commentary 1 (January 1968): 74-77.
• "Fiction." Review of Taps. Publishers Weekly 248 (26 February 2001): 55.
• Flaherty, Joe. "Pleasant Memories." Review of James Jones. New York Times Book Review (17 December 1978): 14.
• Freeman, Don. "A Tender Look at Dixie." Review of Always Stand in Against the Curve. San Diego Union-Tribune (22 January 1984): Books:1.
• Fremont-Smith, Eliot. "A Sense of Self in Two Fine Books." Review of North Toward Home. New York Times (23 October 1967): 43.
• Friedenberg, Edgar Z. "Boy's Life." Review of North Toward Home. New York Review of Books 9 (21 December 1967): 3-4.
• Friedenberg, Edgar Z. "Southern Discomfort." Review of Yazoo. New York Review of Books 17 (2 September 1971): 7-8.
• Fuller, Edmund. "Gadding about Washington with a Southern Lady." Review of The Last of the Southern Girls. Wall Street Journal (5 July 1973): 6.
• Gaillard, Frye. "A Time to Remember." Review of New York Days. Progressive 58 (February 1994): 42-43.
• Gamache, Ray. Review of After All, It's Only a Game. Aethlon: The Journal of Sports Literature 10 (Spring 1993): 143-44.
• "Hardcovers in Brief." Review of Homecomings. Washington Post Book World (7 January 1990): 13.
• Hardwick, Elizabeth. "'I Had Had My Pinnacle.'" Review of New York Days. New York Times Book Review (5 September 1993): 1, 13-15. See also responses: Lapham, Lewis. "Advertisements for Themselves: A Letter from Lewis Lapham." [Letter to the editor.] New York Times Book Review (24 October 1993): 3, 39; Morris, Willie. "The Battle Over 'New York Days.'" [Letter to the editor.] New York Times Book Review (19 December 1993): 31.
• Harris, Ron. "Willie Morris Captures Faulkner Spirit." Review of Faulkner's Mississippi. Houston Post (30 December 1990): C5.
• Hart, Jeffrey. "Books in Brief." Review of New York Days. National Review 45 (29 November 1993): 72, 76.
• Haviland, Virginia. "Autobiography." Review of Good Old Boy. Horn Book 48 (February 1972): 60.
• Hayes, Harold. "Yahoo from Yazoo Makes Good." Review of North Toward Home. Washington Post (15 October 1967): 3, 18.
• Herman, Tom. "Of Integration, Yazoo-Style." Review of Yazoo. Wall Street Journal (1 July 1971): 10.
• Hicks, Granville. "How to Succeed at an Early Age." Review of North Toward Home. Saturday Review 51 (13 January 1968): 77-78, 81.
• Hoagland, Edward. "Down Memory Lane." Review of A Southern Album. New York Times Book Review (7 December 1975): 4.
• Holditch, W. Kenneth. "Sentimental Journey." Review of Faulkner's Mississippi. New Orleans Times-Picayune (25 November 1990): E6-E7.
• Holmes, William F. Review of Yazoo. Saturday Review 54 (5 June 1971): 31-33.
• Hood, Orley. "Morris Gives Games Perspective." Review of After All, It's Only a Game. Jackson (Mississippi) Clarion-Ledger (30 October 1992): E1.
• Hooper, Brad. Review of My Cat Spit McGee. Booklist 95 (August 1999): 1983.
• Hooper, Brad. Review of My Dog Skip. Booklist 91 (15 March 1995): 1282.
• Hooper, Brad. Review of My Mississippi. Booklist 97 (1 September 2000): 5.
• Hooper, Brad. Review of Taps. Booklist 97 (15 February 2001): 1084-85.
• Hurlburt, Tom S. Review of A Prayer for the Opening of the Little League Season. School Library Journal 41 (June 1995): 104.
• Jones, Madison. "Journey from Yazoo." Review of North Toward Home. New York Times Book Review (22 October 1967): 5.
• Kakutani, Michiko. "On Being Young, Hot and Literary in the 60's." Review of New York Days. New York Times (31 August 1993): C15.
• Kemp, John R. "Mississippi Yearning." Review of My Mississippi. New Orleans Times-Picayune (10 December 2000): Books:6.
• Krim. "Versions of Jones." Review of James Jones. Nation 227 (28 October 1978): 447-48.
• Lambert, Pam. "Dixie-Style Football Follies." Review of The Courting of Marcus Dupree. Wall Street Journal (8 November 1983): 32.
• Lardner, Susan. "Books." Review of North Toward Home. New Yorker 43 (3 February 1968): 106, 109-111.
• Lardner, Susan. "Good Old Dichotomous Boy." Review of The Courting of Marcus Dupree. New Yorker 60 (5 March 1984): 136-139.
• Lehmann-Haupt, Christopher. "Books of the Times." Review of James Jones. New York Times (15 November 1978): C27.
• Lehmann-Haupt, Christopher. "The Irony of Southerners." Review of Yazoo. New York Times (24 May 1971): 29.
• Leonard, John. "Tossing the Salad Days." Review of New York Days. Nation 257 (25 October 1993): 463-64, 466.
• "Literature." Review of Always Stand in Against the Curve. Booklist 80 (15 March 1984): 1022-23.
• Long, Robert Lee. "A Good Old Boy Goes Home." Mississippi 19 (May-June 2001): 79-84.
• Luft, Kerry. "Eloquent Essays on Matters of Heart." Review of Homecomings. Chicago Tribune (25 December 1989): 5:3.
• Magid, Nora L. "Willie & Barbara & Barbara & Willie." Review of The Last of the Southern Girls. Commonweal 99 (26 October 1973): 89-92.
• Manning, Robert. "Heating Up Harper's." Review of New York Days. Columbia Journalism Review 32 (September/October 1993): 58-59, 61-62.
• McCaig, Donald. "A Boy's Best Friend." Review of My Dog Skip. Washington Post (27 March 1995): D2.
• McCall, Bruce. "Good Dog! Bad Dog!" Review of My Dog Skip. New York Times Book Review (9 April 1995): 11.
• McCampbell, Marlene. "Picks & Pans: Pages." Review of My Dog Skip. People Weekly 43 (29 May 1995): 28.
• McMurtry, Larry. "Wringing the Belle." Review of The Last of the Southern Girls. Washington Post Book World (17 June 1973): 3.
• McPherson, William. "Rediscovery . . . Reconciliation." Review of Yazoo. Washington Post (6 July 1971): B1, B4.
• Menand, Louis. "Willie's Version." Review of New York Days. New Yorker 69 (20 September 1993): 121-26.
• Minzesheimer, Bob. "Taps Plays Lyrical Farewell to Morris." Review of Taps. USA Today (19 April 2001): D4.
• Mitchell, Paul. "North Toward Home: The Quest for an Intellectual Home." Notes on Mississippi Writers 2 (1970): 105-109.
• Morgenstern, Joe. "Black and White in Color." Review of The Ghosts of Medgar Evers. Wall Street Journal (2 February 1998): A20.
• Naughton, Jim. "Children's Books: The Awkward Age." Review of Good Old Boy and the Witch of Yazoo. Washington Post Book World (5 November 1989): 21.
• O'Briant, Don. "Morrises' Mississippi." Review of My Mississippi. Atlanta Journal-Constitution (3 December 2000): M2.
• O'Connor, John J. "The Bookshelf: From a Southerner's Point of View." Review of North Toward Home. Wall Street Journal (2 November 1967): 18.
• O'Connor, John J. Review of The South Today. America 113 (13 November 1965): 598-600.
• Ott, Bill. "Quick-Bibs: New and Recent Books on a Timely Topic." Review of Always Stand in Against the Curve. American Libraries 15 (April 1984): 203.
• Patrick, Ralph. "'Good Old Boy' Steals Characters, But Tale Is New." Review of Good Old Boy and the Witch of Yazoo. Atlanta Journal and Constitution (19 November 1989): L9.
• Pearson, Michael. "'Homecomings' Opens Door to Willie Morris's Past." Review of Homecomings. Atlanta Journal and Constitution (11 February 1990): N9.
• Petrakis, Harry Mark. "Going Home Again with Willie Morris: A Nostalgic Journey." Review of Terrains of the Heart and Other Essays on Home. Chicago Tribune Book World (1 November 1981): 3.
• Porterfield, Christopher. "Such Good Friends." Review of The Last of the Southern Girls. Time 101 (4 June 1973): 92, 95.
• Quinn, Judy. "More Morris." Publishers Weekly 246 (1 November 1999): 29.
• Review of The Courting of Marcus Dupree. Atlantic 252 (December 1983): 116.
• Review of The Ghosts of Medgar Evers. Publishers Weekly 245 (5 January 1998): 52-53.
• Review of The Last of the Southern Girls. New Yorker 49 (2 June 1973): 123.
• Review of The Last of the Southern Girls. New York Times Book Review (20 May 1973): 7.
• Review of My Cat Spit McGee. Publishers Weekly 246 (11 October 1999): 64.
• Review of A Prayer for the Opening of the Little League Season. Chicago Sun-Times (2 April 1995): 19.
• Review of A Southern Album. Virginia Quarterly Review 52 (Spring 1976): 60.
• Review of The South Today. Choice 2 (February 1966): 882.
• Review of Terrains of the Heart and Other Essays on Home. New York Times Book Review (1 November 1981): 16.
• Review of Yazoo. Atlantic 227 (June 1971): 101-102.
• Reynolds, Susan Salter. "Discoveries." Review of My Cat Spit McGee. Los Angeles Times Book Review (7 November 1999): 15.
• Reynolds, Susan Salter. Review of My Dog Skip. Los Angeles Times Book Review (4 February 1996): 10.
• Rosen, Judith. "'Taps' for Willie Morris." Publishers Weekly 248 (2 April 2001): 19.
• Rosengarten, Theodore. "A Death in Mississippi." Review of The Ghosts of Medgar Evers. New York Times Book Review (15 March 1998): 32.
• Ross, Mitchell. Review of James Jones. New Republic 179 (25 November 1978): 37-38.
• Rosta, Paul. "Title Page." Review of Always Stand in Against the Curve. Los Angeles Times Book Review (20 May 1984): 12.
• S., R. A. "From Yazoo to the Cave." Review of North Toward Home. Newsweek 70 (6 November 1967): 96-98.
• Salter, Sid. "Willie Morris Jostles Awake Memories of Small-Town Sports." Review of After All, It's Only a Game. Jackson (Mississippi) Clarion-Ledger (7 March 1993): G3.
• Sanborn, Sara. "Scarlett Lives--in Washington." Review of The Last of the Southern Girls. Nation 217 (2 July 1973): 23-25.
• Sayers, Valerie. "Southern Requiem." Review of Taps. Washington Post Book World (8 April 2001): 15.
• Sheppard, R. Z. "Boy's Home Town Makes Good." Review of Yazoo. Nation 97 (10 May 1971): 93.
• Shulevitz, Judith. "The Real Yoknapatawpha." Review of Faulkner's Mississippi. New York Times Book Review (17 March 1991): 22.
• Smith, Andrew Brodie. Review of My Mississippi. Library Journal 125 (15 November 2000): 87.
• Smothers, Bonnie. Review of The Ghosts of Medgar Evers. Booklist 94 (1 & 15 January 1998): 742.
• Staggs, Sammy. Review of A Southern Album. Library Journal 100 (15 November 1975): 2160.
• Stahel, Thomas H. Review of Good Old Boy. America 126 (25 March 1972): 324-25.
• Summer, Bob. "Remembrances of Willie." Publishers Weekly 246 (16 August 1999): 30.
• Sutherland, Zena. "Books for Young People." Review of Good Old Boy. Saturday Review 55 (22 April 1972): 86.
• Swindle, Michael. "Literary N.Y.C. in the '60s." Review of New York Days. Los Angeles Times Book Review (5 September 1993): 4, 9.
• Thatcher, Gary. "Deep South Paid Honor in Album." Review of A Southern Album. Christian Science Monitor (14 June 1976): 30.
• Vosburgh, Mark. "Reflections on Childhood's Dog Days." Review of My Dog Skip. Chicago Tribune (12 June 1995): 5:4.
• Wakefield, Dan. "A Time of Pain and Anger, Gentleness and Decency in Mississippi." Review of Yazoo. New York Times Book Review (16 May 1971): 42-43.
• Wall, Chris. "True Story Too Good to Be True." Review of The Courting of Marcus Dupree. Los Angeles Times Book Review (20 November 1983): 17.
• Wilson, Craig. "Willie Morris' Pet Project Evokes Mississippi Memories." Review of My Dog Skip. USA Today (20 April 1995): D4.
• Wilson, Robert. Review of James Jones. Washington Post Book World (11 February 1979): 5.
• Wolcott, James. "Remaking It." Review of New York Days. New Republic 209 (15 November 1993): 31-32, 34-36.
• Wolff, Geoffrey. "You Can Go Home Again." Review of Yazoo. Newsweek 77 (10 May 1971): 110, 112.
• Yardley, Jonathan. "Marcus Dupree and the Other Philadelphia Story." Review of The Courting of Marcus Dupree. Washington Post Book World (23 October 1983): 3, 8.
• Yardley, Jonathan. "Small Tale: Learning to Love Cats." Review of My Cat Spit McGee. Washington Post (17 November 1999): C2.
• Yardley, Jonathan. "Yen for Power." Review of The Last of the Southern Girls. New Republic 168 (19 May 1973): 28-29.
• Yardley, Jonathan. "Young Man in a Hurry." Review of New York Days. Washington Post Book World. (5 September 1993): 3.

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