Robert Morgan: Essays on the Life and Work edited by Robert M. West and Jesse Graves

This book is a collection of essays by sixteen distinguished scholars along with a previously unpublished article by the subject himself, Robert Morgan, an interview of him, and a bibliography of books and articles by and about Morgan. Few authors have so richly deserved to be catapulted from relative obscurity to a secure presence in the country's literary elite than Robert Morgan. He grew up in humble circumstances in a family that did not own a car, but a bookmobile came to the Green River Baptist Church near their small farm in Henderson County, North Carolina, and he became a voracious reader. In the sixth grade, he didn't have the three dollars to go on the class trip to the Biltmore Estate, so he had to stay by himself that day in his classroom. That is when he wrote his first story. He graduated from UNC-Chapel Hill and then studied under Fred Chapell to receive his MFA from UNC-Greensboro. In 1969 the first of his sixteen poetry collections, Zirconia Poems, was published. He b