C. E. Morgan
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C.E. Morgan is an American writer, born in 1976. She is a graduate of Berea College in Kentucky and of Harvard Divinity School (master's in theological studies). She has published several short stories and essays. 'All the Living' is her first novel and won a Whiting Writers' Award. She was awarded vis mere the 2016 Windham-Campbell Literature Prize in fiction and 2016 Kirkus Prize in fiction for her second novel, The Sport of Kings. (Bowker Author Biography) vis mindre
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- Fødselsdato
- 1976-06-23
- Køn
- female
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Fødested
- Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
- Bopæl
- Berea, Kentucky, USA
- Uddannelse
- Berea College (BA)
Harvard Divinity School - Priser og hædersbevisninger
- Whiting Writers' Award (2013)
Windham–Campbell Literature Prize (2016)
National Book Foundation "5 Under 35" (2009)
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Yet the novel has plenty going for it, still. Morgan pins her native state of Kentucky to the examination table and dissects it with clear eyed animus. A provocative parallel is drawn between slavery and modern horse racing, with the latter an outlet for continuing notions of eugenics and purity through forced breeding and a hateful expression of innate superiority that warps the soul. And if Henry Forge's late conversion from hard racist to gentle humanitarian seems a tad too easily won, at least the triggering mechanism is believable, and the change satisfying.… (mere)