C. E. Morgan is an American author born in 1976.[1] The author of the novel All the Living (Farrar, Straus & Giroux), she was a recipient of the National Book Foundations 5 under 35 award and a 2010 Lannan Literary Fellowship.[2] In 2010, she was also named by The New Yorker magazine as one of America’s 20 Best Writers Under 40.
As an undergraduate, Morgan studied voice at Berea College, a tuition-free labor college for students from poor and working-class backgrounds in Appalachia. In exchange for a free education, all students work for the college while enrolled.[3] Morgan also attended Harvard Divinity School, where she studied literature and religion. She wrote All the Living while at Harvard.[4] She lives in Kentucky.