Career
Mr. Morgan enlisted in the Marine Corps immediately after Pearl Harbor and his 1st Marine Division in Guadalcanal, New Guinea, New Britain and Peleliu in August 1942. Subsequently, he fought in the battles of eastern New Guinea, New Britain and Peleliu, rising to the rank of sergeant. After the war, he briefly worked for the New York Herald Tribune in New York and the Marshall Plan in Europe.
He did not attend college, however, he became an authority on the military and political history of the battle of Guadalcanal.
In 1954, while living in Paris, Morgan founded of Overseas Cr, Incorporated., which financed cars across Europe for United States. military personnel and Marshall Plan employees. From this, he became a friend and adviser to many American writers and editors who gravitated to the Paris.
He was a well-known figure in the expatriate American literary community in Paris in the 1950s and 1960s. He later founded Holographics, Incorporated., which developed useful laser technologies.
