Robin Morgan, 1941-

Robin Morgan was born January 29, 1941, in Lake Worth, Florida, the daughter of Faith Berkeley Morgan. She was a precocious child and so was put to work as a child model and actor, but despite her work in radio and television, she vowed to become a poet and took classes at Columbia University, although she did not matriculate. In the early 1960s she worked as a freelance editor and literary agent. In 1962 she married poet Kenneth Pitchford. The couple had one child, Blake Morgan Pitchford. They later divorced.

Throughout the 1960s Morgan published poetry and contributed articles to such literary journals as The Sewanee Review and to such leftist publications as Rat, Win, and Liberation . By the late 1960s, after involvement in civil rights and peace activism, she committed herself to feminism, first becoming involved with the New York Radical Women, and later identifying as a radical feminist. During her time in New York Radical Women, she organized public actions with the group WITCH (Women's International Terrorist Conspiracy from Hell). These actions included placing a "hex" on Wall Street, demonstrating before the Miss America Pageant in 1968, and protesting the New York Bridal Fair in 1969. During this time Morgan continued to write poetry and feminist works, publishing both Sisterhood Is Powerful: An Anthology of Writings from the Women's Liberation Movement (named one of the 100 Most Influential Books of the 20th Century by the American Librarians' Association) in 1970, and her germinal first collection of poems, Monster in 1972.

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