Karl F. Morrison was born November 3, 1936, in Birmingham, Alabama, United States. He is an American historian who got Bachelor's degree in 1956 from the University of Mississippi and a year later got his Master's from Cornell University. In 1961 he received his Ph.D. from the same place, and was hired as Professor Emeritus at Rutgers University in 1988. He has an award in the Humanities from the McKnight Foundation and is also a fellow at the Medieval Academy of America, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and University of Notre Dame.^[1]