George Frederick Morgan

George Frederick Morgan (April 25, 1922 – February 20, 2004) was a poet, the co-founder (1947) and long-time editor (1948–1998) of the literary quarterly The Hudson Review and an heir to a fortune built on soap.

Morgan attended Princeton University, where he studied under Allen Tate.Morgan also translated poems from the French.

Morgan was married three times and had six children. His third wife, Paula Dietz, in 1998 succeeded him as editor ofThe Hudson Review. Earlier, Morgan was married to Constance Canfield, with whom he had two sons who died young.The Esquire article, "Seth Morgan's Last Ride" (February 1, 1991), recounts the description by one of those sons, Seth Morgan, of his mother and childhood: Morgan stated she was "an alcoholic beauty who drank herself to death in 1964", and he claimed that her coldness was to blame for his brother's suicide (by leaping to his death off the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge). Morgan also believed that he inherited what he called his "addictive personality" from his alcoholic mother. He later said that he harbored intense bitterness towards women because of her treatment of him and his siblings, and he spent years "planning the strategic degradation of women".