Morris Resigns in Harper's Dispute
Alden Whitman's New York Times report on Willie Morris's resignation as Harper's editor, including the text of Morris's resignation letter and an excerpt from Mailer's response.
“Morris Resigns in Harper’s Dispute,” an article by Alden Whitman in the New York Times (5 March 1971), is the fullest contemporaneous report on the resignation of Harper’s editor Willie Morris, including the text of Morris’s resignation letter and an excerpt from Mailer’s response to the events that followed publication of “The Prisoner of Sex” (71.10).
Related pages
- “The Prisoner of Sex” (71.10) | Willie Morris
- “Mailer Tells Harper’s — Me, Too” (71.12) | “Hang-Up at Harper’s” (71.13)
- 1971
- Mailer Tells Harper's — Me, Too (71.12) | Hang-Up at Harper's (71.13) | Norman Mailer's Side on 'Harper's' (71.21)