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Austin Wright


Born
in The United States
September 06, 1922

Died
April 23, 2003


Austin McGiffert Wright was a novelist, literary critic and professor emeritus of English at the University of Cincinnati.
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. 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. ...more

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“She feels bruised by her reading and by life too. She wonders, does she always fight her books before yielding to them?”
― Austin Wright, Tony and Susan
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“You write because everything dies, to save what dies.”
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“What she remembers now is not so much happiness as places where happiness occurred. Happiness was intangible, place made it visible.”
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