About the Author

Mark Morrow has enjoyed a career as a journalist, photographer, editor, and author.

His first book, Images of the Southern Writer (University of Georgia Press, 1985) was a collection of his Southern writer portraits along with accompanying essays about photographing, and befriending, some of America’s most iconic writers.

These writers included Tennessee Williams, Eudora Welty, Walker Percy, Cormac McCarthy, James Dickey, William Styron, Erskine Caldwell, Anne Tyler, and dozens of others. He has also photographed and corresponded with many other writers in his career, including Joseph Heller, Tom Wolfe, Tom Stoppard, Donald Hall, Czesław Miłosz, Roy  Blount Jr., Garrison Keillor, Stephen Spender, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Tom T. Hall, Toni Morrison, Tim O’Brien, and Willie Morris.

As a photographer, journalist, and book editor, he has worked for a wide range of publications, including newspapers and magazines and has had assignments for Esquire, People, Fortune, the Los Angeles Times, and others. He is a former executive editor at McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing.

In 2023, the University of South Carolina’s Irvin Department of Rare Books and Special Collections in Columbia, South Carolina, accepted Mark’s entire collection of photographs, letters, and all associated material related to his career as a photographer and writer into its permanent collection. The collection will be archived, catalogued, and eventually made available to the public. The Irvin Collections is planning a late 2024 exhibition of his work. Another major exhibition is planned for the fall of 2025 at Koger Center for the Arts in Columbia, South Carolina. 

Mark lives in Alexandria, Virginia.