{"id":54,"date":"2015-06-05T13:59:17","date_gmt":"2015-06-05T13:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mariannehauser.com\/?p=54"},"modified":"2015-08-06T22:59:59","modified_gmt":"2015-08-06T22:59:59","slug":"alice-s-morris-a-fierce-contempt-for-bigotry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mariannehauser.com\/?p=54","title":{"rendered":"ALICE S. MORRIS: A FIERCE CONTEMPT FOR BIGOTRY"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Alice S. Morris<\/a> was one of Marianne Hauser’s closest personal friends, and she was also a vitally important professional friend. Morris was the literary editor at\u00a0 Harper’s Bazaar from 1951-1968 and she published many of Hauser’s stories, as well as excerpts from her novel Prince Ishmael<\/em>. In 1965 she edited\u00a0The Uncommon Reader<\/em>, a collection of Harper’s Bazaar stories which includes Hauser’s\u00a0The Abduction<\/em>, an hallucinatory journey into exile taken by a Hungarian composer. It is based largely on the life of Erno Dohnanyi<\/a>, whom she knew in the 1950’s, in Tallahassee,\u00a0 where he was teaching and where Fred Kirchberger got his PhD. Morris died at age 90 in 1993. Alice S. Morris was one of several adventurous mid-century editors at fashion magazines. These women’s magazines became a market for serious literary fiction. She was preceded by George Davis<\/a>, who was at Harper’s Bazaar from 1936-1941, who then moved to Mademoiselle until 1949. Betsy Blackwell<\/a> was the editor and chief of Mademoiselle from 1937-1971. Mademoiselle was a Conde Nast publication, which for a time was a partner of McBride’s, where Coby Gilman worked editing Travel. Carson McCullers, Truman Capote, Jean Stafford, Eudora Welty, Flannery O’Connor, James Baldwin, Jane Bowles, Paul Bowles, and Tennessee Williams are some of the many authors published by these fashion magazines early in their careers. When Hauser published Dark Dominion<\/em> her friend Marguerite Young reviewed it in Vogue alongside McCullers’ A Member of the Wedding<\/em> and Capote’s short stories.
\nMorris was married to Harvey Breit<\/a>, a novelist and editor who reviewed books for the Times in the 40’s (his Times obit gives different dates than the Wikipedia article for his NYT tenure). When she died, Hauser wrote this about her old friend:<\/p>\n

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Alice S. Morris was one of Marianne Hauser’s closest personal friends, and she was also a vitally important professional friend. Morris was the literary editor at\u00a0 Harper’s Bazaar from 1951-1968 and she published many of Hauser’s stories, as well as excerpts from her novel Prince Ishmael. In 1965 she edited\u00a0The Uncommon Reader, a collection of … Continue reading ALICE S. MORRIS: A FIERCE CONTEMPT FOR BIGOTRY<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,25],"tags":[20,23,29,10,3,37,39,22,24,26,5,2,38,28,27],"class_list":["post-54","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marianne-hauser-project","category-uncollectedunpublished","tag-a-lesson-in-music","tag-alice-s-morris","tag-carson-mccullers","tag-coby-gilman","tag-dark-dominion","tag-erno-dohnanyi","tag-fred-kirchberger","tag-harpers-bazaar","tag-harvey-breit","tag-mademoiselle","tag-marguerite-young","tag-marianne-hauser","tag-the-uncommon-reader","tag-truman-capote","tag-vogue"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p64Cqc-S","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mariannehauser.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mariannehauser.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mariannehauser.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariannehauser.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariannehauser.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariannehauser.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariannehauser.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions\/88"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mariannehauser.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariannehauser.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariannehauser.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}