About Bobby Morrison
What Bobby Writes About
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Coming of age and the choices that shape a life
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Family, community, and the power of memory
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Black Americana, tradition, and social change
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Small town characters and stories worth keeping
Bobby's Story
Bobby Morrison’s roots go back to a small community in North Carolina called Piney Grove, a place centered around a church and held together by tradition, family, and hard work. It is even called Piney Grove though there are no pine trees there. It is the kind of place where everyone knows your people, where customs matter, and where the stories are passed down like heirlooms.
He grew up in a sharecropping family that was poor but proud. Winters could be brutal. In the mornings, someone had to be brave enough to leave the warmth of handmade quilts to fire up the pot bellied stove. When the farming stopped, families had to stretch what little they had, and sometimes ask the landowner for help to make it through. In the middle of that life, pride still stood tall. So did responsibility.
Those early years became the foundation of Bobby’s writing.
In Bama Boy, Bobby tells the story of humble beginnings on a sharecropper’s farm in North Carolina and the long road of coming of age and personal achievement. It is Americana at heart, not polished for show, just honest and lived.
In Bama Boy, Bobby tells the story of humble beginnings on a sharecropper’s farm in North Carolina and the long road of coming of age and personal achievement. It is Americana at heart, not polished for show, just honest and lived.
In Tales From Piney Grove, Bobby opens the door to the community that shaped him. The book is a coming of age, regional account of Black Americana, filled with tradition, social change, and unforgettable characters. He frames the stories with a Prelude that shares the history and customs of Piney Grove, and an Epilogue that returns decades later with a simple belief, you can go home again, even when the era you knew has changed.
The Tales are full of people you can see clearly, amusing, stubborn, loving, complicated, and human. Bobby has a sharp eye and strong recall, and he tells these stories without judging anyone. He lets the good and the bad sit side by side, the way real life does.
Piney Grove never really left him. He took it with him, and readers tend to carry it too.
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Bobby Morrison is the author of Bama Boy and Tales From Piney Grove. His writing draws from his upbringing on a sharecropper’s farm in North Carolina and the close knit community of Piney Grove, a place he has carried with him ever since.