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Austin Wright

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September 06, 1922 in The United States

died

April 23, 2003

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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 (novel). 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.

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Average rating: 3.24 · 304 ratings · 93 reviews · 13 distinct works

	Tony and Susan 3.22 avg rating — 286 ratings — published 1993 — 19 editions	My rating:
	The Formal Principle In The Novel 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings	My rating:
	Telling Time 2.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1995	My rating:
	After Gregory 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	Tony och Susan 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2011	My rating:
	Recalcitrance, Faulkner, and the Professors: A Critical Fiction 3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1990 — 2 editions	My rating:
	American Short Stories in the Twentieth Century 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2000	My rating:
	Tony i Susan 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2011	My rating:
	Camden's Eyes 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1969	My rating:
	Victorian Literature 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating	My rating:

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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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