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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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.

In the following essay, Hall discusses the three varieties of consciousness he sees represented in Morris's work.

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.