ROBERT MORGAN

Date of Birth: October 3, 1944
Birthplace: Green River, NC
Current Residence: Freeville, NY
Education: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, B.A., 1965; University of North Carolina, Greensboro, M.F.A., 1968
Profession: English teacher, 1968-69; farmer, housepainter and writer in Hendersonville, NC, 1969-71; Cornell University, professor, 1971-present

Gap Creek is the work of a master. Robert Morgan knows every corner, every inch, of the way of life he portrays in this deeply affecting book. He has created one of the most admirable heroines in modern literature; I feel that I'll remember her always. Here is strength and grace and immeasurable courage: a triumph!
-Fred Chappell

Though I passed through college mostly as a math student and have since worked at many kinds of jobs, writing has always given me a center and continuity. At times it has held me on course when nothing else seemed to work.
-Robert Morgan

A poet's vision illuminates this starkly beautiful story of a strong young woman prevailing over natural disasters and tragedies, as well as cultural barriers, in the first year of her marriage in the last year of the last century. Robert Morgan tells her story with the certitude of a sure knowledge of a receding way of life in a changing Appalachian region.
-Loyal Jones