Will's Boy (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Wright Morris
- First Published: 1981
- Type of Work: Autobiography
- Genres: Nonfiction, Memoir
- Subjects: Self-discovery, Traveling or travelers, Writing, Lifestyles, Biography
- Locales: Virginia, California, Chicago, IL, Texas, Nebraska
Will's Boy, an autobiography, reworks much of the same material that went into The Works of Love, a book with which Morris struggled through seven drafts between 1946 and 1951. However, in the more recent reconsideration of his boyhood, Morris for the first time makes a nonfictional attempt to resurrect his past. By limiting the scope of Will's Boy to the years between 1910 and 1930, Morris is able to trace significant events in his life from his birth in Central City, Nebraska, through his boyhood in Schuyler and Omaha, his teen years in Chicago, and on to his...
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