- Has five children with her husband, Mike, a lawyer.
- Thanks to promotion by Oprah Winfrey, her third novel, "Songs in Ordinary Time" (Viking/Penguin, 1995), sold 1.5 million copies. After receiving the phone call from Oprah to notify her that the novel would be mentioned on The Oprah Winfrey Show (1986), Morris at first thought it was a prank.
- Her first novel, "Vanished" (Viking/Penguin, 1988), took years to write and was not published until she was 45, but became a big success and was nominated for both the PEN/Faulkner Award and the National Book Award.
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