Col. Robert Morgan

Robert Morgan is a prolific and award-winning author of over twenty titles including poetry, fiction, history, and biography. His poetry titles include October Crossing, Topsoil Road, The Strange Attractor: New and Selected Poems, and Groundwork. Winner of the James G. Hanes Poetry Prize from the Fellowship of Southern Writers and the Eunice Tietjens Prize from Poetry Magazine , he has also received the Southern Book Award for his novel Gap Creek and the Academy Award in Literature from the...See more

Robert Morgan is a prolific and award-winning author of over twenty titles including poetry, fiction, history, and biography. His poetry titles include October Crossing, Topsoil Road, The Strange Attractor: New and Selected Poems, and Groundwork. Winner of the James G. Hanes Poetry Prize from the Fellowship of Southern Writers and the Eunice Tietjens Prize from Poetry Magazine , he has also received the Southern Book Award for his novel Gap Creek and the Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His nonfiction book, Boone: A Biography , was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award, and winner of the Kentucky Book Award. A native of western North Carolina, he is a 2010 inductee into the North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame. Since 1971 he has taught at Cornell University, where is he Kappa Alpha Professor of English. See less