While at Harvard, she wrote her first novel, All the Living. Morgan also attended Harvard Divinity School, where she studied literature and religion and attained her Masters in Theology. In exchange for a free education, all students work for the college while enrolled.

As an undergraduate, she studied voice at Berea College, a tuition-free labor college for students from poor and working-class backgrounds in Appalachia. Education-B.M., Berea College Th.M., Harvard Divinity SchoolĬatherine Elaine Morgan is an American author of the novels, The Sport of Kings (2016) and All the Living (2009) She was born in Cincinnati, Ohio.Newly confronted with one another in the quest for victory, the two families must face the consequences of their ambitions, as each is driven - and haunted - by the same, enduring question: How far away from your father can you run?Ī sweeping narrative of wealth and poverty, racism and rage, The Sport of Kings is an unflinching portrait of lives cast in the shadow of slavery and a moral epic for our time. Morgan unspools a fabric of shared histories, past and present converge in a Thoroughbred named Hellsmouth, heir to Secretariat and a contender for the Triple Crown. It is a dauntless narrative that stretches from the fields of the Virginia piedmont to the abundant pastures of the Bluegrass, and across the dark waters of the Ohio River from the final shots of the Revolutionary War to the resounding clang of the starting bell at Churchill Downs.Īs C. An American tale centered on a horse and two families: one white, a Southern dynasty whose forefathers were among the founders of Kentucky the other African-American, the descendants of their slaves.

The sport of kings by ce morgan