At the time of Marcus Dupree\'s birth, when Deep South racism was about to crest and shatter against the Civil Rights Movement, Willie Morris journeyed north in a circular transit peculiar to southern writers.
In Marcus Dupree, Morris found a.
In The Courting of Marcus Dupree he turned again home to Mississippi to write about the small town of Philadelphia and its favorite son, a black high-school quarterback.
His memoir of those years, North Toward Home , became a modern classic.
At the time of Marcus Dupree\'s birth, when Deep South racism was about to crest and shatter against the Civil Rights Movement, Willie Morris journeyed north in a circular transit peculiar to southern writers