Award-Winning Author Robert Morgan Shares His New Biography, Boone
On UNC-TV’s North Carolina Bookwatch, Friday, July 25, at 9:30 PM

Robert Morgan has spent the past five years researching and reading everything ever written about the legendary American hero, Daniel Boone. In his engrossing, full-scale book, Boone: A Biography, Morgan looks behind the legends and shows us the true, flesh-and-blood man.

In an all-new episode of UNC-TV’s local literary series North Carolina Bookwatch with D.G. Martin, premiering Friday, July 25, at 9:30 PM, the award-winning author shares his beautifully written biography of the American adventurer.

From the very first sentence—"Forget the coonskin cap; he never wore one"—Morgan's authority informs a guided tour not only of Daniel Boone’s life, but life on the 18th-century American frontier. Morgan fleshes out his narrative with a backdrop of life in colonial times, examining the domestic, political, cultural, and natural world of early America. Boone features extensive maps and illustrations throughout, 30 pages of endnotes, an extensive bibliography, and interior spreads detailing period information.

Like novelist-turned-historian Shelby Foote, Morgan writes with a novelist’s understanding of scene, putting the reader squarely down into the forest alongside Boone. In Boone, Morgan has written a biography delivering the living, breathing character of the ultimate American pioneer, dreamer, and visionary.

Don’t miss DG Martin’s all-new interview with Robert Morgan on North Carolina Bookwatch, Friday, July 25, at 9:30 PM, with an encore episode airing Sunday, July 27, at 5 PM.

Robert Morgan is the author of the New York Times bestseller Gap Creek, as well as seven other novels and eleven books of poetry. A recent winner of the American Academy of Arts & Letters Award for Literature, he lives in Ithaca, New York, and teaches at Cornell University.

During the 26-week season of North Carolina Bookwatch, guests will also include:  Frances Mayes (A Year in the World), Rob Christensen (The Paradox of Tar Heel Politics), Eleanora Tate (Celeste’s Harlem Renaissance), Eric Wilson (Against Happiness), Wayne Caldwell (Cataloochee), Theda Perdue (The Cherokee Nation and The Trail of Tears), Bernie Harberts (Too Proud to Ride a Cow), Jean Anderson (A Love Affair with Southern Cooking), Joe Glatthaar (General Lee's Army), Tony Earley (The Blue Star), JD Rhoades (Breaking Cover), Therese Fowler (Souvenir), Cindy Ramsey (Boys of the Battleship North Carolina), Anna Rubino (Queen of the Oil Club), Nancy Peacock (A Broom of One's Own), Louise Hawes(Black Pearls), and Nortin Hadler (Worried Sick).

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