10 Facts About Lael Morgan

Lael Warren Morgan was an American journalist, author and historian who wrote books about Alaska's history and people.

Lael Morgan later earned her master's at Boston University School of Communication in 1987.

Lael Morgan worked for Inupiat artist and Tundra Times founder and editor Howard Rock under an Alicia Patterson Fellowship and wrote a book about Rock entitled Art and Eskimo Power.

Lael Morgan worked for the Tundra Times during the land claims movement, writing for the Times as well as doing monthly coverage of Native villages for Alaska Magazine which she did for a decade beginning in the 1970s.

Lael Morgan was assigned to visit every Alaska village which was named in the Alaska Native Land Claims Settlement and visited 207 out of 220.

Lael Morgan co-founded Epicenter Press with business partner Kent Sturgis in 1988, a regional publishing house in Fairbanks publishing books about local people and lore.

Lael Morgan worked at the University of Alaska in Fairbanks in their Department of Journalism, teaching writing and photography.

Lael Morgan moved back to Maine in 1999 and was managing editor and publisher of the Casco Bay Weekly in Portland, Maine.

Lael Morgan was inducted into the Alaska Women's Hall of Fame in 2011 She died in July 2022 in Anchorage and is buried in Fairbanks Birch Hill Cemetery.

Lael Morgan's papers, including 69 spiral bound reporter's notebooks, are held at the University of New England.