Robin Morgan

Nonfiction Fiction Poetry

3.8/5 (3,564 ratings)
Born
January 28 1941
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An award-winning poet, novelist, political theorist, feminist activist, journalist, editor, and best-selling author, Robin Morgan has published 20 books, including the now-classic anthologies
Sisterhood Is Powerful
and
Sisterhood Is Global
; with the recent
Sisterhood Is Forever
. A leader in contemporary US feminism, she has also played an influential role internationally in the women’s movement for more than 25 years.

An invited speaker at every major university in North America, Morgan has traveled — as organizer, lecturer, journalist — across Europe, to Australia, Brazil, the Caribbean, Central America, China, Indonesia, Israel, Japan, Nepal, New Zealand, Pacific Island nations, the Philippines, and South Africa; she has twice spent months in the Palestinian refugee camps in Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt, Syria, West Bank, and Gaza, reporting on the conditions of women.

Her books include the novels
Dry Your Smile
and
The Mer-Child A Legend for Children and Other Adults
; nonfiction
Going Too Far
,
The Word of a Woman
, and
The Anatomy of Freedom
. Her work has been translated into 13 languages, including Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Persian, Russian, and Sanskrit. Recent books include the poetry anthologies
Upstairs in the Garden
and
A Hot January
, as well as the memoir
Saturday's Child
, and her best-selling nonfiction piece
The Demon Lover - The Roots of Terrorism
(Norton, 1989—2nd ed. with a new introduction and afterword . Her novel on the Inquisition —
The Burning Time
— was published in 2006 , and
Fighting Words A Toolkit for Combating the Religious Right
in 2006 .

As founder and president of The Sisterhood Is Global Institute and co-founder and board member of The Women’s Media Center, she has co-founded and serves on the boards of many women’s organizations in the US and abroad. In 1990, as editor-in-chief of Ms. magazine, she relaunched the magazine as an international, award-winning, ad-free bimonthly, resigning in late 1993 to become consulting global editor. A recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts Prize for poetry, and numerous other honors, she lives in New York City.

Robin Morgan

Nonfiction Fiction Poetry

3.8/5 (3,564 ratings)
Born
January 28 1941
Website
Go to Website
An award-winning poet, novelist, political theorist, feminist activist, journalist, editor, and best-selling author, Robin Morgan has published 20 books, including the now-classic anthologies
Sisterhood Is Powerful
and
Sisterhood Is Global
; with the recent
Sisterhood Is Forever
. A leader in contemporary US feminism, she has also played an influential role internationally in the women’s movement for more than 25 years.

An invited speaker at every major university in North America, Morgan has traveled — as organizer, lecturer, journalist — across Europe, to Australia, Brazil, the Caribbean, Central America, China, Indonesia, Israel, Japan, Nepal, New Zealand, Pacific Island nations, the Philippines, and South Africa; she has twice spent months in the Palestinian refugee camps in Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt, Syria, West Bank, and Gaza, reporting on the conditions of women.

Her books include the novels
Dry Your Smile
and
The Mer-Child A Legend for Children and Other Adults
; nonfiction
Going Too Far
,
The Word of a Woman
, and
The Anatomy of Freedom
. Her work has been translated into 13 languages, including Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Persian, Russian, and Sanskrit. Recent books include the poetry anthologies
Upstairs in the Garden
and
A Hot January
, as well as the memoir
Saturday's Child
, and her best-selling nonfiction piece
The Demon Lover - The Roots of Terrorism
(Norton, 1989—2nd ed. with a new introduction and afterword . Her novel on the Inquisition —
The Burning Time
— was published in 2006 , and
Fighting Words A Toolkit for Combating the Religious Right
in 2006 .

As founder and president of The Sisterhood Is Global Institute and co-founder and board member of The Women’s Media Center, she has co-founded and serves on the boards of many women’s organizations in the US and abroad. In 1990, as editor-in-chief of Ms. magazine, she relaunched the magazine as an international, award-winning, ad-free bimonthly, resigning in late 1993 to become consulting global editor. A recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts Prize for poetry, and numerous other honors, she lives in New York City.

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