45 Facts About Robin Morgan

Robin Morgan was born on January 29,1941 and is an American poet, writer, activist, journalist, lecturer and former child actor.

Robin Morgan has written more than 20 books of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, and was editor of Ms.

Robin Morgan was a regular on the original network radio version of Juvenile Jury.

Robin Morgan worked with directors such as Sidney Lumet, John Frankenheimer, Ralph Nelson; writers such as Paddy Chayefsky and Rod Serling; and performed with actors such as Boris Karloff, Rosalind Russell, Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, and Cliff Robertson.

Robin Morgan began working as a secretary at Curtis Brown Literary Agency, where she met and worked with such writers as poet W H Auden in the early 1960s.

Robin Morgan had already begun publishing her own poetry.

Robin Morgan gave birth to their son, Blake Morgan, in 1969.

Robin Morgan served as editor-in-chief of the magazine from 1989 to 1994, turning it into a highly successful, ad-free, bimonthly, international publication, which won awards for both writing and design, and received considerable acclaim among journalists.

In 1967, Robin Morgan became a founding member of the short-lived New York Radical Women group.

Robin Morgan was the key organizer of their inaugural protest of the Miss America pageant in Atlantic City.

Robin Morgan designed the feminist symbol of a raised fist within the Venus symbol for that protest of the 1969 Miss America pageant, where it was popularized.

Robin Morgan made a decisive break from what she described as the "male Left" when she led the women's takeover of the underground newspaper Rat in 1970, and listed the reasons for her break in the first women's issue of the paper, in her essay titled "Goodbye to All That".

In 1977, Robin Morgan became an associate of the Women's Institute for Freedom of the Press.

Robin Morgan has spoken at universities and institutions in countries across Europe, the Caribbean, and Central America, as well as in Australia, Brazil, China, Indonesia, Israel, Japan, Nepal, New Zealand, Pacific Island nations, the Philippines, and South Africa.

Robin Morgan has received the Humanist Heroine Award from The American Humanist Association in 2007.

In 1970, Robin Morgan compiled, edited, and introduced the first anthology of feminist writings, Sisterhood is Powerful.

Robin Morgan established the first American feminist grant-giving organization, The Sisterhood Is Powerful Fund, with the royalties from Sisterhood Is Powerful.

Robin Morgan served as the magazine's editor-in-chief from 1989 to 1994, re-launching it as an ad-free, international bimonthly publication in 1991.

Robin Morgan resigned her post in 1994 to become Consulting Global Editor of the magazine, which she remains to this day.

Robin Morgan has published 21 books, including works of poetry, fiction, and the now-classic anthologies Sisterhood Is Powerful, Sisterhood Is Global, and Sisterhood Is Forever.

Robin Morgan had published three books of fiction as of 2015.

Robin Morgan's most recent work of fiction is a historical novel titled The Burning Time, set in the 14th century, based on court records of the first witchcraft trial in Ireland.

Robin Morgan has compiled, edited, and introduced several influential anthologies: Sisterhood Is Powerful: The Women's Liberation Anthology, Sisterhood Is Global: The International Women's Movement Anthology, and Sisterhood Is Forever: The Women's Anthology for a New Millennium.

Robin Morgan has been a guest professor or scholar in residence at a variety of academic institutions.

Robin Morgan was awarded an honorary degree as a Doctor of Humane Letters by the University of Connecticut at Storrs in 1992.

Robin Morgan has been arrested, and has received death threats from both the Right and the Left because of her activism.

Two years later, Robin Morgan published the poem "Arraignment", in which she openly accused Ted Hughes of the battery and murder of Sylvia Plath.

In 1973, Robin Morgan gave the keynote speech at the West Coast Lesbian Conference, in which she criticized Beth Elliott, a performer and organizer of the conference, for being a transgender woman.

Robin Morgan grew up in New York, first in Mount Vernon, and later in Manhattan, on Sutton Place.

Robin Morgan graduated from The Wetter School in Mount Vernon, in 1956, and was privately tutored from then until 1959.

Robin Morgan published her first serious poetry in literary magazines at age 17.

Blake Robin Morgan, her son with ex-husband Kenneth Pitchford, is a musician, recording artist, and founder of New York-based record company ECR Music Group.

Since her diagnosis, Robin Morgan has become active with the Parkinson's Disease Foundation, completing training to become part of the organization's Parkinson's Advocates in Research initiative.

Robin Morgan has written new poetry inspired by her battle with the disease, and performed a reading of some of the poems as a TED Talk, at the TEDWomen 2015 conference.

Until Morgan was 13 years old, her mother Faith claimed that Robin's father had been killed in World War II.

When she confronted her mother, Faith changed her story to assert that Robin Morgan's father had escaped from one Nazi concentration camp after another, and that she had saved his life by sponsoring his immigration to the United States where he had no family.

Not until several years later did Robin Morgan get proof that this was a lie.

Robin Morgan learned the truth, both about her father, who was still alive, and how old she really was, early in 1961.

Now a young woman, no longer working in show business, Robin Morgan found a listing for the medical practice of an obstetrician, Dr Mates Morgenstern, in the New Brunswick, New Jersey telephone directory.

Robin Morgan told Robin, during their conversation in his medical office, that she in fact was born on January 29,1941, exactly one year earlier than she thought, and disclosed the copy of her original birth certificate, that he had stored in his office.

Robin Morgan added that he had known Faith only briefly and claimed that she had fantasized their relationship as more important than it was.

Robin Morgan only met her father once more, in February 1965 when he invited her and her husband to his New Jersey home.

Robin Morgan describes the two encounters that she had with her biological father in her autobiography, Saturday's Child: A Memoir.

When Faith Morgan developed Parkinson's disease, in her early 60s, Robin telephoned her biological father to let him know.

Robin Morgan discovered this but ultimately chose not to press charges.