Marlo Morgan
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Marlo Morgan (born September 1937) is the author of the controversial metaphysical international best selling book Mutant Message Down Under.
She pursued a career as a health-care professional. After a 25 year marriage she divorced, quit her job and began a writing career.
Her first novel, Mutant Message Downunder, was published as a true story about her experiences during a walkabout with a group of Aboriginal Australians.
The novel became an immense success, in all countries but Australia, with an eventual sale of over 250,000 copies. After first self publishing it, she sold the rights of her novel to Harper Collins Publishers for $1.7 million in 1994.
She started to give lectures concerning the plight of the Aborigines.
After United Artists bought the rights to the novel, Aboriginal protests, which had been going on in Australia almost since the first appearance of the book, went so far that 8 elders came to the US in 1996 to block the making of the movie, in which they were successful.
On a meeting with these elders, Marlo Morgan finally admitted that the novel was a work of fiction. New editions of the novel have therefore been published as a work of fiction.
Following the success of her first novel, Morgan consequently published another work called Message From Forever in 1998. She has proposed a further sequel called The Last Farewell.
Although she had already admitted to never having lived with an Aboriginal tribe, she still continued to remain very unclear about that fact in her speeches. She claimed for her second book that "this time I was really asked by Aboriginal friends to please do this". There is no proof for this claim, and Aboriginal organisations have been outraged by her second book as well for the wrong picture it paints of their culture.
The book was not published in Australia, which is probably due to the fact that the ways and beliefs of Aboriginals as Morgan described them are in fact her invention and resemble a mixture of New Age beliefs and traditions of North American Indians. When a Hollywood film based on the book was about to be made, Morgan was confronted by Australian Aboriginal elders in 1996. Marlo Morgan then had to admit that she had in fact invented the whole story. There was no such tribe; there was no walk across Australia.
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Career
Marlo Morgan was born in Iowa in September 1937. She attended St. Agnes High School and then , Barstow Community College, University of Missouri, and Cleveland Chiropractic College where she earned doctorate degrees in the fields of biochemistry and oriental medicine. She moved to Kansas City, Missouri where married and had two children. During this time, she entered the Mrs. America pageant as Mrs. Kansas.She pursued a career as a health-care professional. After a 25 year marriage she divorced, quit her job and began a writing career.
Her first novel, Mutant Message Downunder, was published as a true story about her experiences during a walkabout with a group of Aboriginal Australians.
The novel became an immense success, in all countries but Australia, with an eventual sale of over 250,000 copies. After first self publishing it, she sold the rights of her novel to Harper Collins Publishers for $1.7 million in 1994.
She started to give lectures concerning the plight of the Aborigines.
After United Artists bought the rights to the novel, Aboriginal protests, which had been going on in Australia almost since the first appearance of the book, went so far that 8 elders came to the US in 1996 to block the making of the movie, in which they were successful.
On a meeting with these elders, Marlo Morgan finally admitted that the novel was a work of fiction. New editions of the novel have therefore been published as a work of fiction.
Following the success of her first novel, Morgan consequently published another work called Message From Forever in 1998. She has proposed a further sequel called The Last Farewell.
Although she had already admitted to never having lived with an Aboriginal tribe, she still continued to remain very unclear about that fact in her speeches. She claimed for her second book that "this time I was really asked by Aboriginal friends to please do this". There is no proof for this claim, and Aboriginal organisations have been outraged by her second book as well for the wrong picture it paints of their culture.
Mutant Message Down Under
Published in 1994, the book claims to recount the spiritual awakening that occurred to a woman named Marlo during a "walkabout" she undertook with a group of Aboriginal Australians. During their travels, the Aboriginals, (who in the book prefer the name "Real People") taught this strange white woman (Mutant) how to not only survive while on foot in the outback, but to treat each and every thing as part of a whole, including one's own self. Mutant Message Down Under asserts that their seemingly primitive way of life lends to them powers unheard of in Western society, including telepathy, water finding skills, communication with animals and plants, vanishing into thin air (or seeming to), and making one person seem like many.The book was not published in Australia, which is probably due to the fact that the ways and beliefs of Aboriginals as Morgan described them are in fact her invention and resemble a mixture of New Age beliefs and traditions of North American Indians. When a Hollywood film based on the book was about to be made, Morgan was confronted by Australian Aboriginal elders in 1996. Marlo Morgan then had to admit that she had in fact invented the whole story. There was no such tribe; there was no walk across Australia.
References
- "Mutant Message Down Under" ISBN 0-06-092631-7
- Mutant Message Down Under Full background and description at 20th-Century American Bestsellers, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
- Controversy regarding the book
- Review, including how this book became popular
- Critique by a white Australian who has studied Aboriginal culture
- Collection of Information on the book
- Dumbartung Aboriginal Corporation
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