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 Gap Creek
by Robert Morgan
Announced on January 18, 2000
About the Author
A
native of the North Carolina mountains, Robert Morgan was born in
Hendersonville, and raised on land settled by his Welsh ancestors.
He currently lives in Freeville, NY and teaches at Cornell University.
Since 1969,
Morgan has published four books of fiction, including The Hinterlands
(1994) and The Truest Pleasure (1995) named a Publishers Weekly
Best Book of the Year and a New York Times Notable. He has published
nine volumes of poetry and has published poems in such magazines
as 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 and Prize Stories: The O.
Henry Awards.
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