Col. Robert Morgan

Robert Morgan is the author of fourteen books of poetry, most recently Terroir and Dark Energy . He has published twelve volumes of fiction, including Gap Creek , a selection of Oprah's Book Club and a New York Times bestseller. His sequel to Gap Creek , The Road from Gap Creek , received the Thomas Wolfe Memorial Literary Award. He is also the author of the nonfiction books Boone: A Biography and Lions of the West: Heroes and Villains of the Westward Expansion .Morgan has received fellowships...See more

Robert Morgan is the author of fourteen books of poetry, most recently Terroir and Dark Energy . He has published twelve volumes of fiction, including Gap Creek , a selection of Oprah's Book Club and a New York Times bestseller. His sequel to Gap Creek , The Road from Gap Creek , received the Thomas Wolfe Memorial Literary Award. He is also the author of the nonfiction books Boone: A Biography and Lions of the West: Heroes and Villains of the Westward Expansion .Morgan has received fellowships from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller Foundations, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the New York State Arts Council and has been awarded the Academy Award in Literature by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. A member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers, he has been inducted into the North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame. Morgan was born in Hendersonville, North Carolina in 1944, and taught at Cornell University from 1971 to 2022. See less