Robin Morgan - Early Life

Early Life

Robin Morgan was born on January 29, 1941 in Lake Worth, Florida. Her biological father in effect abandoned her mother and the infant. Her mother, Faith Berkeley Morgan, raised her in Mount Vernon, New York. Her mother and aunt started her as a child model when she was a toddler. In 1945 she had her own radio program on New York station WOR titled The Little Robin Morgan Show, which broadcast nationally. She was also a regular on the panel show Juvenile Jury.

She did guest starring work during the "Golden Age of Television" on such live dramas as Omnibus, Suspense, Danger, Hallmark Hall of Fame, Robert Montgomery Presents, Tales of Tomorrow, and Kraft Theatre, and starred in such "spectaculars" as Kiss and Tell and Alice in Wonderland. She worked with directors such as Sidney Lumet, John Frankenheimer, Ralph Nelson, and writers such as Paddy Chayefsky and Rod Serling, and such actors as Boris Karloff, Rosalind Russell, Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, and Cliff Robertson.

She started her most famous acting role at the age of seven/eight when she was cast as Dagmar Hansen, the youngest sister in the TV series Mama. The show, which starred Peggy Wood, premiered nationally on CBS in 1949. She left Mama at age 14, having wanted since age four to write rather than act, and then fought her mother's efforts to keep her in show business. She graduated from The Wetter School in Mount Vernon, New York, in 1956, and then was privately tutored from 1956 to 1959. She published her first serious poetry in literary magazines at age 17.