Robert
Morgan is author of the critically acclaimed Boone, a biography of Daniel
Boone which Booklist called "Outstanding." His previous novel, Gap Creek topped national best-seller lists and was crowned an Oprah Book Club selection in early 2000. Morgan has remained intensely interested in rural ways of the past and much of his writing reflects his vast knowledge about them. He is a native of the mountains of North Carolina, has won numerous awards for his poetry and novels including four fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the North Carolina Award for Literature, among other awards. He is an English professor at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.
Robert Morgan will appear at the Ballroom
in the Martha Washington Inn on Sunday, May 18th at 3 P.M. This is the last event in this year's Sunday With Friend's Program sponsored by the Friends of the Washington County Public Library. The event is free and open to the public.
Call 276-676-6222 for more information.
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Has been called a "writer's writer." Author of "The
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"Endless Things." An interview in Booksense offers insight into his
writing and a list of this writer's writer's favorite writers: "The Secret
Life of John Crowley"
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