The Home Place is the second “photo-text” book that Wright Morris published during the 1940s. Recounting the story of a man who returns to the run-down farm of his uncle and aunt, the novel is accompanied by photographs that Morris took in his native Nebraska in 1947. Morris believed that the careful pairing of photography and text—making connections that were sometimes obvious, sometimes subtle—resulted in a suggestive interplay for the reader. He explained that the photographs in The Home Place, “would provide the visible ambience for the story, as if we walked about the farm while listening to the narration.”