Award-Winning Author Robert Morgan Shares His New Biography, Boone on UNC-TV’s North Carolina Bookwatch, Friday, July 25, at 9:30 PM

Robert Morgan has spent the past five years researching and reading everything ever written about the legendary American hero, Daniel Boone. In his engrossing, full-scale book, Boone: A Biography, Morgan looks behind the legends and shows us the true, flesh-and-blood man.

In an all-new episode of UNC-TV’s local literary series North Carolina Bookwatch with D.G. Martin, premiering Friday, July 25, at 9:30 PM, the award-winning author shares his beautifully written biography of the American adventurer.

From the very first sentence—"Forget the coonskin cap; he never wore one"—Morgan's authority informs a guided tour not only of Daniel Boone’s life, but life on the 18th-century American frontier. Morgan fleshes out his narrative with a backdrop of life in colonial times, examining the domestic, political, cultural, and natural world of early America. Boone features extensive maps and illustrations throughout, 30 pages of endnotes, an extensive bibliography, and interior spreads detailing period information.

Like novelist-turned-historian Shelby Foote, Morgan writes with a novelist’s understanding of scene, putting the reader squarely down into the forest alongside Boone. In Boone, Morgan has written a biography delivering the living, breathing character of the ultimate American pioneer, dreamer, and visionary.

Don’t miss DG Martin’s all-new interview with Robert Morgan on North Carolina Bookwatch, Friday, July 25, at 9:30 PM, with an encore episode airing Sunday, July 27, at 5 PM.