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==Works== |
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===Novels=== |
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* ''Camden's Eyes'' Doubleday, 1969 |
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* {{cite book| title=First persons: a novel| publisher=Harper & Row| year= 1973| isbn= 978-0-06-014759-4 }} |
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* {{cite book| title=The Morley mythology| publisher=Harper & Row| year= 1977| isbn=978-0-06-014751-8 }} |
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* {{cite book| title=Tony and Susan|publisher=Baskerville| year= 1993| isbn= 978-1-880909-01-0 }} {{cite book | title=reissue |publisher=Atlantic Books| year= 2010| isbn= 978-1-84887-021-5 }} (review [http://www.nytimes.com/1993/03/22/books/books-times-novel-within-novel-ex-wife-who-both-reads-learns.html?pagewanted=1]) |
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* {{cite book| title=After Gregory: a novel| publisher= Baskerville Publishers| year= 1994| isbn=978-1-880909-12-6 }} |
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* {{cite book| title=Telling time: a novel| publisher=Baskerville Publishers| year= 1995| isbn= 978-1-880909-36-2 }} |
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* {{cite book| title=Disciples| publisher=Baskerville Publishers| year= 1997| isbn=978-1-880909-55-3 }} |
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===Non-fiction=== |
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* ''The American short story in the twenties'', University of Chicago Press, 1961 |
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* {{cite book| title=The art of the short story: an introductory anthology| editors=John Leeds Barroll, Austin McGiffert Wright| publisher=Allyn and Bacon| year= 1969 }} |
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* {{cite book| title=Formal Principle in the Novel| publisher=Cornell University Press| year= 1982| isbn=978-0-8014-1462-6 }} |
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* {{cite book| title=Recalcitrance, Faulkner, and the professors: a critical fiction| publisher=University of Iowa Press| year= 1990| isbn= 978-0-87745-301-7 }} |
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==References== |
==References== |
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Revision as of 20:24, 18 November 2010
Austin Wright | |
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 Austin M. Wright | |
| Occupation | Novelist, literary critic, Professor, Author |
| Genre | Fiction, Criticism |
| Notable works | Tony and Susan, Camden's Eyes, Recalcitrance, Faulkner and the Professors, The Morely Mythology, Telling Time, After Gregory, Disciples, First Persons, The Formal Principle in the Novel |
| Notable awards | Whiting Writers' Award |
| Spouse | Sara Hull Wright |
| Children | Katharine, Joanna, Margaret |
| Relatives | John Kirtland Wright, Austin Tappan Wright, John Henry Wright, Arthur Cushman McGiffert, Mary Tappan Wright |
Austin McGiffert Wright (1922 Yonkers, New York – April 23, 2003 Cincinnati) was a novelist, literary critic and professor emeritus of English at the University of Cincinnati.[1]
Life
He grew up in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, son of the geographer John Kirtland Wright and Katharine McGiffert Wright, and namesake of his uncle, Austin Tappan Wright, writer of the utopian novel, Islandia (novel). He graduated from Harvard University in 1943. He served in the Army (1943–1946). He graduated from the University of Chicago, with a master's degree in 1948, and a Ph.D. in 1959.
He married Sara Hull Wright, in 1950. They had three children: Joanna Wright (died 2000), Katharine Wright of Berkeley, CA, and Margaret Wright, and two granddaughters, Madeline Giscombe and Elizabeth Perkins.
Awards
Works
Novels
shut up!!!! i hate kids
References
- ^ Rebecca Goodman (April 30, 2003). "Obituary: Austin M. Wright, 80, writer, teacher". The Cincinnati Enquirer.