{"id":1268,"date":"2026-07-26T16:36:37","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T21:36:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/?p=1268"},"modified":"2026-09-25T08:30:03","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T13:30:03","slug":"ellen-morris-prewitt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/2026\/ellen-morris-prewitt\/","title":{"rendered":"Ellen Morris Prewitt"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>author of <em>When We Were Murderous Time-Traveling Women<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ellen Morris Prewitt is a Jackson, Mississippi native, who grew up there, in Denver, and in Charlotte, North Carolina. She returned to Jackson, where she practiced law for nineteen years. She now lives in Memphis, Waveland, and New Orleans, where her novel <em>When We Were Murderous Time-Traveling Women<\/em> is set. Guided by three women ancestors, the main character, Etoile, sets out to uncover a mystery from the city&#8217;s past in a story <em>Chapter 16<\/em> has described as a &#8220;a time-bending adventure, spanning histories, packed with action, violence, humor, and heart.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ellenmorrisprewitt.com\/\">Author Website<\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Reviews<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Chapter 16<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/southernlitreview.com\/reviews\/when-we-were-murderous-time-traveling-women-by-ellen-morris-prewitt.htm\">Southern Literary Review<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/msbookspage.wordpress.com\/2026\/07\/27\/when-we-were-murderous-time-traveling-women-by-ellen-morris-prewitt\/\">Mississippi Books Page<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-vertical is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-4fc3f8e1 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2026\/07\/eprewitt_lg.jpg\" alt=\"White woman with short blond hair holding her hand to her forehead\" class=\"wp-image-1234\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2026\/07\/eprewitt_lg.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2026\/07\/eprewitt_lg-208x300.jpg 208w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2026\/07\/whenwewermurderous.jpg\" alt=\"Dark blue cover of When We Were Muderous-Traveling Women by Ellen Morris Prewitt\" class=\"wp-image-1256\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2026\/07\/whenwewermurderous.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2026\/07\/whenwewermurderous-188x300.jpg 188w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When We Were Murderous Time-Traveling Women<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1233,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[44,36,59,43],"class_list":["post-1268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-33","tag-fiction","tag-mississippi-writer","tag-new-orleans","tag-novel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1268"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1346,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1268\/revisions\/1346"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}