He is married, with three children, and makes his home with his wife, Patty Morris, in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

He then spent a decade working for radio networks, newspapers, and magazines in Jefferson City, Missouri; Washington, DC; and Ithaca, New York.

Its critical and commercial success prompted Morris to leave teaching and work full-time as an independent writer.

[8] In 2014 he published Revolution by Murder: Emma Goldman, Alexander Berkman, and the Plot to Kill Henry Clay Frick, a Kindle Single.

[9] Morris's following book, Eye on the Struggle: Ethel Payne, The First Lady of the Black Press, was published in 2015 and widely reviewed and became a New York Times Bestseller [10][11] The Ambulance Drivers: Hemingway, Dos Passos, and a Friendship Made and Lost in War was published in 2017 by Da Capo Press.