The story says that when Morgan came to Cornell in 1971, “I became very interested in the Appalachian Mountains of western North Carolina. I began looking into the history of that region, the Cherokee Nation, the geology and geography, and the experience there during the Revolutionary and Civil Wars. I became a student of the southern Appalachians.”
Morgan is the author of fourteen books of poetry and nine volumes of fiction, including Gap Creek, a New York Times bestseller.
Douae Maarouf ’27/Student and Campus Life
Justin Eburuoh ’27, left, and Branden Sattler ’26 check out books from the Language House Library. Beginning in the fall, the Language House will include students who use American Sign Language, in addition to those speaking French, Spanish, Mandarin and Korean.