Luncheon: Featuring
writer Robert Morgan
sponsored by Public Library Section
Wednesday, September 24, 12-1:30 pm
Retired Library Director, Bill Roberts will present the first biennial William H. Roberts Distinguished Service Award. A slate of officers for PLS 2003-2005 will be presented. |
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Born in 1944 in Hendersonville, NC, Robert Morgan grew up on the family farm in the Green River Valley of the Blue Ridge Mountains. He began composing music in his teens and then turned to science and math. He studied at NCSU before graduating with a B. A. in English from UNC-CH and a Master’s in Fine Arts from UNC-G. His first story was published when he was in the sixth grade! His first writing teacher was Guy Owen at NCSU. He has published poetry and short stories but turned back to fiction with the 1980 publication of The Blue Valleys. Mr. Morgan has received NEA grants, a Guggenheim fellowship and a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship. |
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He won the James G. Hanes Poetry Prize by the Fellowship of Southern writers and the North Carolina Literature Award. His novel, The Truest Pleasure, was listed as a Publisher’s Weekly Notable Book of 1995 and Gap Creek in 1999 was selected for the Southern Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction in 2000. This book was also selected the Appalachian Writers Association Book of the Year and an Oprah Book Club title. Algonquin Press published The Rock in 2001 and will release Brave Enemies in time for the conference in 2003. Robert Morgan is currently a Kappa Alpha Professor of English at Cornell. He has been a visiting professor of writing at Appalachian State University and Furman University and was the Blackburn Distinguished Visiting Writer at Duke University in the spring of 2003. Registration is required; fee of $25.00 is to be paid with registration.
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