Robert Morgan grew up on a small farm in the Green River Valley of the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina, the setting of almost all his creative work. He has had four National Endowment for the Arts fellowships as well as Guggenheim and Rockefeller Foundation fellowships. He has also received the North Carolina Award for Literature, as well as the James B. Hanes Poetry Prize from the Fellowship of Southern Writers. He is the author of ten volumes of poetry as well as his three well-received novels: The Hinterlands, The Truest Pleasure, and Gap Creek.
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"Groundwork is a book wholly focused on his people and his place and their stories: it is his most purely Appalachian book, and possibly the best single book of lyric poems ever to come out of the Southern mountains. Like any masterpiece it creates its own secondary world-palpable, intriguing, and memorable." - Michael McFee "A storyteller with an eye for detail, impeccable ear for language, devotion to craft and passion for truth, Robert Morgan has written poetry and fiction of great distinction for many years." - Citation by the American Academy of Arts and Letters