Louis B. Wright

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Louis B. Wright


Born
in Greenwood County, South Carolina, The United States
March 01, 1899

Died
December 26, 1984

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Louis Booker Wright was an American author, educator and librarian. Wright was the director of the Folger Shakespeare Library, the author of numerous books about the American colonial period, and in 1928 he was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship.

Average rating: 3.49 · 11,839 ratings · 849 reviews · 139 distinct worksSimilar authors
The Thirteen Colonies

4.04 avg rating — 293 ratings — published 2014 — 4 editions
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Shakespeare's England

3.85 avg rating — 151 ratings — published 1964 — 8 editions
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Hamlet

4.18 avg rating — 76 ratings2 editions
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The Cultural Life of the Am...

3.73 avg rating — 44 ratings — published 1957 — 18 editions
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Everyday Life in Colonial A...

3.53 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 1966 — 3 editions
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Gold, Glory and the Gospel

3.91 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1970 — 7 editions
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American Heritage History o...

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Ο Σαίξπηρ και η εποχή του

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4.83 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1975 — 5 editions
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The First Gentlemen of Virg...

3.71 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1940 — 10 editions
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Folger Guide to Shakespeare

4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1969 — 7 editions
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“Nobody in Colonial America, to be sure, believed that society owed every child the ultimate in education, but intelligence, industry, and thrift combined with ambition got many a poor man's son into the colonial colleges.”
Louis B. Wright

“When colonists came to grips with their destiny, it was because they had realized liberty and responsibility go together.”
Louis B. Wright, The Thirteen Colonies

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