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Morris, Wright (American photographer, author, and professor, 1910-1998)
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Wright Morris was born in Nebraska in 1910. He studied at Pomona College and presently lives in Mill Valley, California.
Writer and photographer.
Long regarded as one of America's most gifted writers, Wright Morris authored over thirty-three books. He was born in Central City, Nebraska, on 6 January 1910. His novel, A Field of Vision, won the National Book Award in 1957, and Plains Song won the 1981 American Book Award for Fiction. In addition to his novels, he is the author of a number of photo-text books, books of criticism, and several collections of short stories. He taught English at San Francisco State College, and he and his wife, Josephine Mary Kantor Morris (1927-2002), made their home in Mill Valley, California. Morris died in April 1998.
Morris was a writer and photographer.
Wright Morris was an American author and photographer, who has generated an acclaimed yet neglected body of work . Born in Central City, Nebraska, his early childhood was itinerant and unsettled, inculcating him with an appreciation for the lives of ordinary Americans. He attended several colleges, never taking a degree, and joined the Lost Generation of American artists in Europe. He created and exhibited photo-texts, character sketches accompanied by photographs, and began writing novels. His work was valued by other writers and he received numerous grants, fellowships, and awards, but seldom enjoyed popular attention. In addition to novels and photo-texts, he wrote essays, short stories, literary criticism, and memoirs, and lectured on literature at colleges and universities throughout the United States. Morris died in 1998.
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