About The Author
In addition to My Dog Skip, Willie Morris was also the author of North Toward Home, New York Days, and many other books. As the imaginative and creative editor of Harper's magazine he was a major influence in changing our postwar literary and journalistic history. He died in 1999 in Jackson, Mississippi, where he lived with his wife, JoAnne, his friend Spit McGee, and his other cats, Mamie and Bessie.
