Taps

The late writer Willie Morris astutely chronicled the American South throughout his career. His final book Taps, which he began writing in the late 1960s, was prepared for posthumous publication by the writer's widow, JoAnne Prichard Morris. It tells the loosely-fictionalized story of a young man coming of age in the 1950s in a small Mississippi town, much like Morris's hometown of Yazoo City. David speaks with JoAnne Prichard Morris and writer David Halberstam, about Morris's life and his final book. (10:13) (Taps is published by Houghton Mifflin; ISBN: 0618