Background
Morris, Mary was born on May 14, 1947 in Chicago, Illinois, United States.
(A novel about three generations of women whose lives have...)
A novel about three generations of women whose lives have been shaped by waiting while the men are at war. Zoe's grandmother flees from Russia - her mother lives through the Second World War - while Zoe's own experience is through her brother who dodges Vietnam but ends up destroyed by drugs.
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( In the fall of 2005 acclaimed writer Mary Morris set of...)
In the fall of 2005 acclaimed writer Mary Morris set off down the Mississippi River in a battered old houseboat called The River Queen, with two river rats named Tom and Jerry and an ailing, irascible rat terrier named Samantha Jean. Her father had just died. Her daughter had gone off to college. Lost and uncertain, Morris returned to the river of her youth, to the waterside towns where her father had once lived. In this poignant and often humorous memoir, Morris reclaims the world of her childhood as she gets a bearing on her future. She describes traveling down stream through the Midwest, living like a pirate as she survives a tornado and infestation of mayflies, bivouacs on beaches, and ties up to paddleboats in the dark of night. As she learns to pilot the River Queen through these fabled waters, Morris delivers a memoir that "deserves to be both a best-seller and a classic" (The Courier-Journal).
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Morris, Mary was born on May 14, 1947 in Chicago, Illinois, United States.
Bachelor, Tufts College, 1969. Master of Arts, Columbia University, 1973. Master of Philosophy, Columbia University, 1977.
Professor writing Princeton (New Jersey) University, 1980-1987, 90-93, University California, Irvine, 1987-1988, American University, Washington, 1988-1989, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, New York, since 1994.
( In the fall of 2005 acclaimed writer Mary Morris set of...)
(A novel about three generations of women whose lives have...)
Fellow American Academy in Rome. Member Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association, Author's Guild.
Married Larry O'Connor, August 20, 1989. 1 child, Kate.