Wright Morris

Martin Kich (Wright State University)

Ed. by Emory Elliott, University of California, Riverside
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.2.4: American (US) Writing and Culture: Postwar and Contemporary, 1945-present.
Vol. editors: Sofia Ahlberg (Uppsala University), Patrick Chura (University of Akron), Emory Elliott (University of California, Riverside), Dale Enggass (University of Utah), Christopher Hugh Gair (University of Glasgow), Matthew Hofer (University of New Mexico), Stephen E. Meats (Pittsburg State University), Kerry Myler (Birmingham Newman University), Justin Parks (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway), Nick Selby (University of East Anglia)

Dates

Born 6 Jan 1910
Died 25 Apr 1998
Activity 1930-1998

Places

Born in United States
Active in United States

Activities

Primary

Essayist
Letter-writer/ Diarist
Novelist
Photographer
Story-writer

Other

Autobiographer

Resources

Morris' Works

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Most surveys of the contemporary American novel that were published between the late-1950s and the mid-1980s would have included a chapter on Wright Morris. Morris was prolific, authoring 20 novels, six collections of short fiction, four volumes of his own photographs and accompanying text, six volumes of essays on literature, and four volumes of autobiography. In 1957, Morris received a National Book Award for his ninth novel,

The Field of Vision

, and in 1981, he received an American Book Award for his last novel,

Plains Song: For Female Voices

. In addition, he received a number of awards for his whole body of work, including a Common Wealth Award from the Modern Language Association in 1982 and a Life Achievement Award from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1986. His work has been…

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Citation: Kich, Martin. "Wright Morris". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 20 February 2004 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=3211, accessed 23 November 2024.]