Writer Lael Morgan, who chronicled both the practical and provocative in Alaska, died Tuesday in Anchorage at age 86.
Lael Morgan, an Alaska journalist who authored more than a dozen books including several essential works on the state and its history, died Tuesday in Anchorage.Morgan’s adventurous spirit was evident in both her extensive travel and the subjects she covered.Morgan’s career as a journalist in the state began in the mid-1960s when she worked for the Juneau Empire. From there, she took at a job at the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, where she covered politics and crime.
For over a decade starting in the mid-1970s, Morgan worked as a reporter and photographer for Alaska Northwest Publishing, and she traveled to over 200 villages. Lael Morgan talks about her book"Good Time Girls of the Alaska-Yukon Gold Rush" during a book singing in Anchorage on June 7, 1998. Morgan's book recounts the history of the gold rush through the lives of Alaska and Yukon prostitutes.
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