MARY MORRIS

Mary Morris is the author of sixteen books - eight novels, three collections of short stories, and five travel memoirs, including the travel classic, Nothing to Declare: Memoirs of a Woman Traveling Alone (Houghton Mifflin, 1988), and, most recently, All the Way to the Tigers (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 2020). Along with her husband, Larry O’Connor, she edited an anthology of travel literature by women, entitled Maiden Voyages. Her numerous short stories, articles and travel essays have appeared in such places as The Atlantic, Narrative, The Paris Review, and The New York Times. Morris is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, the George W. Perkins Fellowship from Princeton University and the Rome Prize in Literature. In 2016 The Jazz Palace was awarded the Anisfield-Wolf Award for fiction. This prize goes to a literary work that addresses the issues of racism and cultural diversity. Her next novel, The Red House, will be published by Knopf Doubleday in 2024. She is a professor of creative writing at Sarah Lawrence College.