Willie Morris

GPTKB entity

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Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf Author
Journalist
gptkbp:almaMater gptkb:University_of_Texas_at_Austin
gptkbp:associatedWith gptkb:The_New_York_Times
gptkb:The_New_Republic
gptkb:Harper's_Magazine
gptkbp:awards gptkb:O._Henry_Award
Southern Book Award
gptkbp:birthDate 1934-06-29
gptkbp:bornIn gptkb:Jackson,_Mississippi
gptkbp:children Catherine_Morris
gptkbp:contributedTo gptkb:The_New_Yorker
The Atlantic Monthly
Esquire
gptkbp:deathDate 1999-08-02
gptkbp:genre Biography
Memoir
Non-fiction
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Willie Morris
gptkbp:influenced Contemporary_Southern_writers
gptkbp:influencedBy gptkb:Mark_Twain
gptkb:William_Faulkner
Eudora Welty
gptkbp:knownFor Sports writing
Cultural commentary
Southern_literature
gptkbp:nationality American
gptkbp:notableWork gptkb:The_Courting_of_Marcus_Dupree
gptkb:North_Toward_Home
gptkbp:occupation Editor
Writer
gptkbp:placeOfDeath gptkb:Austin,_Texas
Cancer
gptkbp:spouse Joan Morris
gptkbp:wrote gptkb:The_Mississippi_River
gptkb:The_Great_American_Novel
gptkb:The_Ghosts_of_Mississippi
The Southern Experience
The Last of the Southern Girls
The New South: A History
The South: A History
The_Mississippi_River:_A_History
The_Southern_Heritage
The_Southern_Way_of_Life