C. E. Morgan
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Berea College alumna C. E. Morgan ’02 has been named a finalist for the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, one of the most prestigious literary prizes in the nation.
Morgan’s novel, The Sport of Kings, has garnered nationwide attention and praise. Kathryn Schulz, in The New Yorker, said The Sport of Kings “is a novel about racing and race” and “the way that African-Americans have been forced off the track, literally and figuratively to the psychological, political, and material advantage of whites.” A review in The New York Times described the novel as “ravishing and ambitious… a mud-flecked epic, replete with fertile symbolism, that hurtles through generations of Kentucky history.”
The Sport of Kings also won the 2016 Windham-Campbell prize for fiction and the 2016 Kirkus Prize. It is shortlisted for the Bailey’s Women’s Fiction Prize, the Rathbones Folio Prize and the James Tait Black Prize.
Read more about C. E. Morgan’s nominated work at The Pulitzer Prizes’ website: http://www.pulitzer.org/finalists/c-e-morgan
Learn more about Morgan in a recent interview with the Berea College Magazine: https://legacy.berea.edu/magazine/article/interview-c-e-morgan/