Wright, Arthur F., 1913-1976

Arthur Wright was born on December 3, 1913, in Portland, Oregon. He received an A.B. from Stanford University in 1935, a B.Litt. from the University of Oxford in 1937, and an A.M. from Harvard University in 1940. From 1940-1947 Wright lived in Japan and China, spending more than two years in an internment camp. After the war he completed his dissertation and received his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1947. Wright taught Chinese history at Stanford from 1947-1959 and at Yale University from 1959 until his death on August 11, 1976.

Mary Clabaugh Wright was born on September 25, 1915, in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. She received a B.A. from Vassar College in 1938 and a M.A. in history from Radcliffe College in 1939. After her marriage in 1940, she lived in Japan and China, initially pursuing her studies toward the Ph.D., but spending more than two years in an internment camp during World War II. After the war she became the representative of the Hoover Library collecting materials on the Chinese revolution. In 1947 she returned to the United States to become China curator for the Hoover Library. She received her Ph.D. from Radcliffe in 1951. In 1959 Wright was named associate professor of history at Yale University and was made a full professor in 1964, a position she held until her death on June 18, 1970.

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