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by Willie Morris
Good Old Boy: A Delta Boyhood is a novel for young readers about a boy's adventures growing up in post-WWII Mississippi.
Author Willie Morris, then editor of Harper's Magazine in New York, wrote Good Old Boy when his son David, age ten, asked, "What was it like to grow up in Mississippi?" Morris's response turned into a timeless story of growing up in Yazoo City, Mississippi, in the early 1950s, roaming the town with his friends and playing practical jokes and having adventures. Good Old Boy is recommended for sixth through ninth grade.
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Willie Morris (1934-1999) grew up in Yazoo City, Mississippi, attended the University of Texas, was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University in England and was editor in chief of Harper's Magazine.
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