Robert Morgan is a best-selling author  of an Oprah book selection and has many awards. He's also a professor at Cornell. The New York Times wrote about Gap Creek: "You begin to feel, as you sometimes do when reading Cormac McCarthy's or Harry Crew's early novels, that the author has been typing with blood on his hands and a good deal of it has rubbed off onto your shirtsleeves." The only time I'm seen him is at a NC Writers Conference several years back, where I chose him to critique a f...