Speer Morgan
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Speer Morgan (born January 25, 1946, in Fort Smith, Arkansas) is an American novelist, short story writer, and editor.[1][user-generated source?]
His parents were Charles Donald and Betty (Speer) Morgan. Morgan attended the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee, from 1964 to 1966, as well as the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, where he received a BA in 1968. He received a PhD in 1972 from Stanford University.
Morgan was assistant professor at the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri from 1972 to 1978, was associate professor beginning in 1978,[citation needed] and as of 2019[update] is a professor of English and editor of The Missouri Review.[2] He also taught at the Moberly Area Junior College (a men's correctional facility) in 1977 and was a member of the literature panel for the National Endowment for the Arts from 1975 to 1979.
Morgan has been editor-in-chief of The Missouri Review, since 1980. He also co-edited of The Best of the Missouri Review (University of Missouri Press, 1991) and For Our Beloved Country: Diaries of Americans in War (Atlantic Monthly Press, 1993). In the mid-1980s, Morgan established TMR Online on a commercial site called The Source, making it the first magazine in the world to have an online site.
Morgan has been a visiting writer at the University of Texas, the University of Arkansas, and the Paris Writers Workshop. He currently[when?] lives in Columbia, Missouri, with his wife Kristine, a writer and teacher.
