Robin Morgan

For the British newspaper editor, see Robin Morgan (journalist).

Robin Morgan
Morgan in 2012
Born (1941-01-29) January 29, 1941 (age 83)
Lake Worth, Florida, U.S.
EducationColumbia University (BA)
Occupations
  • Poet
  • writer
  • activist
  • journalist
  • lecurer
Years active1940s–present
Notable workSisterhood anthologies
Spouse
Kenneth Pitchford
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(m. 1962⁠–⁠1983)​
ChildrenBlake Morgan
Websiterobinmorgan.net

Robin Morgan (born January 29, 1941) is an American poet, writer, activist, journalist, lecturer and former child actor. Since the early 1960s, she has been a key radical feminist member of the American Women's Movement, and a leader in the international feminist movement. Her 1970 anthology Sisterhood Is Powerful was cited by the New York Public Library as "One of the 100 Most Influential Books of the 20th Century.".[1] She has written more than 20 books of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, and was editor of Ms. magazine.[2]

During the 1960s, she participated in the civil rights and anti-Vietnam War movements; in the late 1960s, she was a founding member of radical feminist organizations such as New York Radical Women and W.I.T.C.H. She founded or co-founded the Feminist Women's Health Network, the National Battered Women's Refuge Network, Media Women, the National Network of Rape Crisis Centers, the Feminist Writers' Guild, the Women's Foreign Policy Council, the National Museum of Women in the Arts, the Sisterhood Is Global Institute, GlobalSister.org, and Greenstone Women's Radio Network. She also co-founded the Women's Media Center with activist Gloria Steinem and actor/activist Jane Fonda. In 2018, she was listed as one of BBC's 100 Women.[3]

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  3. ^ "BBC 100 Women 2018: Who is on the list?". BBC News. November 19, 2018. Retrieved July 23, 2019.