The Courting of Marcus Dupree
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. His memoir of those years, North Toward Home, became a modern classic. 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. In Marcus Dupree, Morris found a living emblem...
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Winner of a Christopher Award in 1984 for "affirming the highest value of the human spirit," the classic account of a young black athlete who became a metaphor for the complex culture of Mississippi
