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Morris is one of America’s highly acclaimed, experimental authors still largely unknown. In the mid-1940s he established his position in twentieth-century letters with a new type of novel that incorporated his photographs into the very structure of his stories. His landmark books -- The Inhabitants (1946) and The Home Place (1948) – successfully merge textual and visual images in a shared description of plains farm life in Nebraska. The two books ushered in a form of fiction which the New York Times called "the nearest thing to a documentary film that’s published today." In The Home Place each page of text is faced by a photograph – a radical design for a novel, even today. The story is a humorous, first-person account of a one-day visit of a New Yorker to his childhood home, "the home place," in Nebraska. "Ed’s Place" in the photograph’s title is a neighbor’s farm.