David Lane Wright addendum 1940-1967

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David Lane Wright addendum 1940-1967

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This addendum to the David Lane Wright collection (COLL MSS 2) contains further writings, correspondence, and journals, as well as some Air Force and college material from the Idaho writer. Since Wright generally kept copies of his own letters, the collection contains outgoing as well as received correspondence. Also includes are notes and draft for some of his novels, short stories, and other forms of writing. Collection predominantly in English with some notes in French and Vietnamese.

27 boxes; 4 linear ft.

eng,

Utah State University. Merrill-Cazier Library. Special Collections and ArchivesUniversity Archives

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Utah State University. Merrill-Cazier Library. Special Collections and ArchivesUniversity Archives

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David Lane Wright was born in Bennington, Idaho on May 22, 1929 to Conover and Lenora Rich Wright. In 1946 he attended college at the Utah State Agricultural College (now Utah State University) on a football and track scholarship. During this time, Wright was football coach Dick Romney's sports publicist and a writer for the student publication, The scribble. After graduation, he become a high school English teacher in Rexburg and Downey, Idaho. On October 22, 1950 he married Nancy Claire Johnso...