Elaine Morgan began writing in the 1950s after winning a competition in the
New Statesman, successfully publishing, then joining the
BBC when it began to produce her plays for television. She also published
Falling Apart: the Rise and Decline of Urban Civilization in 1976, and in 2005 ''Pinker's List'', a critique of
Steven Pinker's
The Blank Slate. Morgan wrote for many television series, including the adaptations of
How Green Was My Valley (1975),
Off to Philadelphia in the Morning (1978) and
Testament of Youth (1979). Her other work included episodes of ''
Dr. Finlay's Casebook (1963–1970), the biographical drama The Life and Times of David Lloyd George (1981) and contributions to the Campion'' (1989) series. She won two
BAFTAs and two
Writers' Guild awards. She also wrote the script for the
Horizon documentary about the disabled fund-raiser
Joey Deacon, winning the
Prix Italia in 1975. She was honoured with the Writer of the Year Award from the
Royal Television Society for her serialisation of
Vera Brittain's
Testament of Youth (1979). In 2003 Morgan started a weekly column for the Welsh daily
The Western Mail, which won her the 2011 Columnist of the Year award in the Society of Editors' Regional Press Awards. She was awarded an
honorary D.Litt. by
Glamorgan University in December 2006, an honorary fellowship of the
University of Cardiff in 2007, and the Letten F. Saugstad Prize for her "contribution to scientific knowledge". Morgan was appointed
Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2009 Birthday Honours for services to literature and education. She became a Fellow of the
Royal Society of Literature the same year, and an honorary freeman of
Rhondda Cynon Taf in April 2013. ==Aquatic ape hypothesis==