Finding Aid for the Willie Morris Periodicals (MUM00322)
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Biographical Note |
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Scope and Content Note |
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User Information |
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Related Material |
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Container List |
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Administrative Information
Processing Information
Collection processed by Archives and Special Collections staff. Finding aid encoded by Kathryn Michaelis, July 2012.
Additions
No further additions are expected to this collection.
Subject Terms
Formats
Biographical Note
Willie Morris was born November 29, 1934, in Jackson, Mississippi, and soon after moved to Yazoo City, where he spent his childhood and youth. He was educated at the University of Texas, where he became editor of The Daily Texan, and graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1956. After graduation, Morris went to Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. From 1960-62 he edited the Texas Observer. From 1963-67 he was an associate editor at Harper's Magazine, and editor-in-chief from 1967 to 1971. In 1980 he became the Writer-in-Residence at the University of Mississippi.
Morris' many works include: North Toward Home (1967); Yazoo: Integration in a Deep-Southern Town (1971); Good Old Boy (1971); James Jones: A Friendship (1978); The Courting of Marcus Dupree (1983); Homecomings (1989); New York Days (1993); A Prayer for the Opening of the Little League Season (1995); My Dog Skip (1995); and The Ghosts of Medgar Evers (1998).
Scope and Content Note
The collection contains periodicals with articles related to author Willie Morris.
User Information
Preferred Citation
Willie Morris Periodicals, Archives and Special Collections, J.D. Williams Library, The University of Mississippi
Access Restrictions
The Willie Morris Periodicals are open for research.
Copyright Restrictions
The copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) governs the making of photocopies or other reproductions of copyrighted material. Under certain conditions specified in the law, libraries and archives are authorized to furnish a photocopy or other reproduction. One of these specified conditions is that the photocopy or reproduction is not to be "used for any purpose other than private study, scholarship or research." If a user makes a request for, or later uses, a photocopy or reproduction for purposes in excess of "fair use," that user may be liable for copyright infringement.
Related Material
Resources at the University of Mississippi
Willie Morris Collection, Archives and Special Collections, J.D. Williams Library
Willie Morris Small Manuscripts, Archives and Special Collections, J.D. Williams Library
Container List
| 1.1 | Harper's, April 1965 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1.2 | Harper's, June 1970 | |||||||||||||||||||
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| 1.3 | Life, June 1981 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Scope: Two copies | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 1.4 | Saturday Evening Post, 7 October 1967 | |||||||||||||||||||
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