Austin Wright

For other people named Austin Wright, see Austin Wright (disambiguation).

Austin Wright
Austin M. Wright
Born	September 6, 1922 Yonkers, New York
Died	Cincinnati, Ohio
Occupation	Novelist, literary critic, Professor, Author
Genre	Fiction, Criticism
Notable works	Tony and Susan, Camden's Eyes, Recalcitrance, Faulkner and the Professors, The Morely Mythology, Telling Time, After Gregory, Disciples, First Persons, The Formal Principle in the Novel
Notable awards	Whiting Award
Spouse	Sara Hull Wright
Children	Katharine, Joanna, Margaret
Relatives	John Kirtland Wright, Austin Tappan Wright, John Henry Wright, Arthur Cushman McGiffert, Mary Tappan Wright

Austin McGiffert Wright (1922 Yonkers, New York – April 23, 2003 Cincinnati) was a novelist, literary critic and professor emeritus of English at the University of Cincinnati.

Life

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.

Awards

• 1985 Whiting Award

Works

Novels

• Camden's Eyes Doubleday, 1969
• (review [1])

Non-fiction

• The American short story in the twenties, University of Chicago Press, 1961

External links

• Profile at The Whiting Foundation