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Austin Tappan Wright

Born

in Hanover, New Hampshire, The United States

August 20, 1883

Died

September 18, 1931

Genre

Literature & Fiction, Science Fiction & Fantasy

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Austin Tappan Wright was an American legal scholar and author. He was the son of classical scholar John Henry Wright and novelist Mary Tappan Wright, the brother of geographer John Kirtland Wright, and the grandfather of editor Tappan Wright King.

Although Wright’s professional colleagues were aware he had literary interests outside his field and some anticipated he might eventually branch out into other areas of literature, these possibilities appeared precluded by his early death. During his lifetime he published just one work of fiction, the short story "1915?" in the Atlantic Monthly for April, 1915.

Few people outside Wright’s own family knew he had long been working on an extensive Utopian fantasy about an imaginary country he called Is ...more

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Average rating: 4.21 · 720 ratings · 138 reviews · 6 distinct works • Similar authors

	Tales Before Tolkien: The Roots of Modern Fantasy by Douglas A. Anderson (Editor), Ludwig Tieck (Contributor), John Buchan (Contributor) 3.93 avg rating — 1,331 ratings — published 2003 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Islandia 4.25 avg rating — 644 ratings — published 1942 — 43 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Elsewhere: Tales of Fantasy (Elsewhere, #1) by Terri Windling (Editor), Mark Alan Arnold (Editor), John Crowley (Contributor) 3.87 avg rating — 52 ratings — published 1981 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The ISLAR: Islandia today, a narrative of Lang III by Mark Saxton, Austin Tappan Wright 3.65 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 1969 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Islandis: El cónsul americano by Austin Tappan Wright, Goran Gallarza Čačić (Translator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	An Islandian on the Islands 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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