R.B. Morris, poet, singer,
songwriter, was born in Knoxville. In the '80's, he edited a literary
magazine, Hard Knoxville Review, which attracted a cult
following in this country and in Europe. Morris has published two volumes
of poetry, The Man Upstairs (1988) and Littoral
Zone (2004). He also wrote a one-man play, The Man Who
Lives Here is Loony (1992), about the turbulent life of writer
James Agee and later played Agee in a video version of the play. His CDs include Take That Ride, Knoxville Sessions, and Zeke and the Wheel. He was also one of the artists on Real: The Tom T. Hall Project. Morris lives in the historic Fort Sanders neighborhood in Knoxville and is currently the University of Tennessee's Writer-in-Residence. |
Tennessee Book Award - Peter
Taylor Prize for the Novel