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Robert Morgan <\/div>\n

The language and literature<\/a> department will hold its second Writers Read<\/a> program of fall semester 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 11 in Martin Chapel of the seminary building.<\/p>\n

New York Times best-selling novelist and award-winning poet Robert Morgan will read from his writings at the dinner meeting.<\/p>\n

One of Morgan’s best-known works, “Gap Creek,” was selected for the Southern Book Critics Circle award for fiction, 2000, and chosen as a “notable book” by the New York Times. It was also an Oprah Book Club selection and named “Book of the Year” for 2000 by the Appalachian Writers Association.<\/p>\n

His fiction includes “The Mountains Won’t Remember Us,” “The Balm of Gilead Tree: New and Selected Stories” and “The Truest Pleasure,” listed by “Publisher’s Weekly” as one of the most notable books of 1995.<\/p>\n

Morgan has received several NEA grants and Guggenheim and Rockefeller Foundation fellowships and was given the James G. Hanes Poetry Prize by the Fellowship of Southern Writers.<\/p>\n

The author’s most recent works include a novel, “Brave Enemies,” and “The Strange Attractor: New and Selected Poems.”<\/p>\n

Morgan is currently Kappa Alpha professor of English at Cornell University.<\/p>\n

Admission to the program, which includes dinner, is $10. Students with I.D. will be admitted for $5. Advance reservations should be made by noon, Nov. 5, by calling the EMU box office<\/a> at 540-432-4582.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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