With his signature style and grace, Willie Morris, arguably one of this
country's finest Southern writers, presents us with an unparalleled
memoir of a country in transition and a boy coming of age in a period of
tumultuous cultural, social, and political change.
In North Toward Home, Morris vividly recalls the South of his
childhood with all of its cruelty, grace, and foibles intact. He
chronicles desegregation and the rise of Lyndon Johnson in Texas in the
50s and 60s, and New York in the 1960s, where he became the
controversial editor of Harper's magazine. North Toward Home is
the perceptive story of the education of an observant and intelligent
young man, and a gifted writer's keen observations of a country in
transition. It is, as Walker Percy wrote, "a touching, deeply felt and
memorable account of one man's pilgrimage."