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Cargando... In Search of Willie Morris: The Mercurial Life of a Legendary Writer and Editorpor Larry L. King
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Willie Morris, the famously talented--and complex--writer and editor, helped to remake American journalism and wrote more than a dozen books, with several classics among them. His time at the head of Harper's magazine, where he was made editor at age thirty-two, is legendary. With writers like David Halberstam, Norman Mailer, and author of this book, Larry L. King, Harper's became the magazine to read and the place to be in print.Morris was friend, colleague, or mentor to a remarkable cast of writers-- William Styron, James Jones, Truman Capote, George Plimpton, Gay Talese, and later in life, Barry Hannah, Donna Tartt, John Grisham, and Winston Groom. In Search of Willie Morris is a wise, sometimes raucous, and moving look at Morris that conveys the energy and activity of the years at the top and the troubles, talents, late rallies, and mysteries of his later life. Written with the affection of a close friend and the critical insight of a fellow writer, it is an absorbing biography of an extraordinarily gifted literary man and raconteur who inspired both wonder and frustration, and who left behind a legacy and a body of work that endures. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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3527 My Dog Skip, by Willie Morris (read 13 Jan 2002)
3558 My Cat Spit McGee, by Willie Morris (read 1 Dec 2002)
3897 The Courting of Marcus Dupree, by Willie Morris (read 8 June 2004)
3922 Taps A Novel by Willie Morris (read 18 Aug 2004)
All great reading, and there is more by him I would like to read. He was editor in chief of Harper's for ten years, then floundered for years, always drinking too much, but did great writing and was a great friend of James Jones, Norman Mailer, David Halberstam, William Styron, Truman Capote, Robert Penn Warren, Gay Talese, Donna Tartt, John Grisham, Winston Groom (all of whom I have read something by). The author is not the CNN interviewer, and I did not like the author too well--he seemed too eager to bring himself into the narrative and his unnecessary use of four-letter words repelled. But Morris' life is full of interest, though he is a greater writer than he was an upstanding man. (