Media
This page is for journalists, podcasters, bloggers, book clubs, and event organizers who want to feature Bobby Morrison and his work. If you need anything that is not listed here, feel free to reach out through the Contact page.
Bobby Morrison is the author of Bama Boy and Tales From Piney Grove. His writing is rooted in his upbringing on a sharecropper’s farm in North Carolina and the church-centered community of Piney Grove. His stories explore coming of age, Black Americana, tradition, and the kind of social change that reshapes a town over time.
Bobby Morrison writes with memory, humor, and a steady respect for the people and places that raised him. His work begins in North Carolina, in a small community called Piney Grove, centered around a church and held together by tradition, family, and local characters you do not forget. Through memoir and storytelling, he captures the everyday realities of sharecropping life, the pride that lived alongside hardship, and the way communities evolve when industry and new opportunities arrive.
In Bama Boy, Bobby shares the story of humble beginnings on a sharecropper’s farm in North Carolina, telling a coming of age journey that leads toward personal achievement. In Tales From Piney Grove, he offers a vivid regional account of Black Americana, framed by a Prelude and an Epilogue that returns decades later with a clear message, you can go home again, even when the world you knew has changed.
A memoir of humble beginnings and hard earned progress.
Tales From Piney Grove is a coming of age collection and a regional account of Black Americana. It is framed by a Prelude that lays out the community’s history and customs, and an Epilogue that returns decades later with a simple truth: you can go home again, even when the era you knew is gone.
Bama Boy opens on a sharecropper’s farm in North Carolina and follows a coming of age journey shaped by work, faith, discipline, and ambition. It is Americana in the truest sense, personal, grounded, and quietly powerful.
Suggested Interview Topics
These work well for podcasts, articles, and live conversations.
- Growing up in rural North Carolina and what it teaches you early
- The meaning of home, and what it feels like to return after decades
- Black Americana, tradition, and the stories that shaped a community
- Humor, faith, and family, the everyday moments that become history
- Social change in small towns, from sharecropping life to factory jobs
- Writing from memory, and why telling it straight matters
Suggested Questions
- What do you want readers to understand about Piney Grove?
- Why did you frame Tales From Piney Grove with a Prelude and Epilogue?
- What does “you can go home again” mean to you today?
- Which character or story still makes you smile when you think about it?
- What does progress look like when it happens quietly and over time?
- What do you hope younger readers take away from your books?
Booking and Contact
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