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Biography

Name: Wright Morris
Variant Name: Wright Marion Morris, Wright (Marion) Morris
Birth Date: January 6, 1910
Place of Birth: Central City, Nebraska, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male

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Biography of Wright Morris
7,609 words, approx. 25 pages
Best known as a novelist and photographer, Wright Morris published fewer than forty short stories in his half-century career. Yet, from the start of his artistic life, Morris experimented with short fiction in a variety of ways, and when his strengths...
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Biography of Wright Morris
6,357 words, approx. 21 pages
Wright Morris has had one of the most productive and enduring careers of any American novelist, winning wide praise for his nineteen novels over the past thirty-five years. His work became progressively better for almost twenty years, reaching its high...
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Biography of Wright Morris
5,708 words, approx. 19 pages
Born near the ninety-eighth meridian, the borderline between short grass and tall, Midwest and West, Wright Morris can be considered the quintessential mid-twentieth-century novelist of the American Dream. In a career that spanned more than fifty years...


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Wright Morris Information
1,094 words, approx. 4 pages
Wright Marion Morris (born January 6, 1910 in Central City, Nebraska; died April 25, 1998) was an award-winning American novelist, photographer, and essayist. He is known for his portrayals of the people and artifacts of the Great Plains in words and...


News and Journals
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Wright Morris and the Jews.
06/22/2002: 8,521 words, approx. 28 pages
Wright Morris was born in Nebraska in 1910 and left the state by 1925. Despite the relatively short contact, the Midwest was a formative influence as rural and small-town Nebraska and ethnic diversity in Omaha frequently provided material for many of the essays, novels,...
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Afterimage
Wright Morris: reinventing a photographer. (Feature).
12/22/2002: 7,874 words, approx. 26 pages
Distinctly American: The Photography of Wright Morris By Alan Trachtenberg, with an essay by Ralph Lieberman London: Merrell Publishers, 2002 140 pp./$50.00 (hb) The Home Place Wright Morris, with an introduction by John Hollander Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1999 178...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Raymond L. Neinstein
13,357 words, approx. 45 pages
In the following essay, exploring the interplay of words and pictures, and of fact and fiction in Morris's Nebraska novels, Neinstein argues that Morris's characters taint the perception of the actual with a dreamlike vision.
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Critical Essay by Joe Hall
11,986 words, approx. 40 pages
In the following essay, Hall discusses the three varieties of consciousness he sees represented in Morris's work.
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Critical Essay by Laura Barrett
11,184 words, approx. 37 pages
In the following essay, Barrett examines the vicissitudes of photographic reality according to Morris, and how Morris uses photography to influence our understanding of the actual world.
 


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