A "hurrah" fills the air when Southern author Michael Morris returns to booksALIVE. You will love not only his writing but Michael as well. Michael Morris began writing at the age of thirty-one, after he had worked as an aide to a US Senator, a salesman for a pharmaceutical company and as a public affairs manager. When his career in the pharmaceutical industry took him to North Carolina Morris discovered writers who shared a common knowledge of the rural lifestyle in which he had grown up and soon his world view began to change. A Place Called Wiregrass was released in April 2002 and received the Catherine Marshall Foundation's Christy Award for Best First Novel. His other highly acclaimed pieces include the novel Slow Way Home (2003) and the novella Live Like You Were Dying (2004), as well as appearances in Stories from the Blue Moon Café II (Sonny Brewer) and Not Safe, But Good II (Bret Lott).