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Robert Morgan is the author of the award-winning and bestselling novel GAP CREEK, an Oprah Book Club selection in 2000 and winner of the Southern Book Award for fiction, presented by the Southern Book Critics Circle. His earlier novel THE TRUEST PLEASURE was a finalist for the same award and was a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year and a New York Times Notable.
A native of the North Carolina mountains, Robert Morgan was raised on land settled by his Welsh ancestors.
He studied at Emory College at Oxford and at North Carolina State University before earning a BA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1965 and an MFA from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in 1968.
Morgan has published five previous books of fiction, including THE HINTERLANDS (1994), THE TRUEST PLEASURE (1995), and GAP CREEK (1999). He has published nine volumes of poetry and has published poems in many magazines, including the Atlantic Monthly, the New Republic, Poetry, the Southern Review, the Yale Review, the Carolina Quarterly, and the New England Review.
Additional awards and honors include four NEA Fellowships, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Fellowship, the North Carolina Award for Literature, the James G. Hanes Poetry Award from the Fellowship of Southern Writers, the Jacaranda Review Fiction Prize, and inclusion in NEW STORIES FROM THE SOUTH: THE YEAR'S BEST and PRIZE STORIES: THE O. HENRY AWARDS.
Robert Morgan teaches English at Cornell University. THIS ROCK is Morgan's sixth book of fiction.
