Austin 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
First persons: a novel. Harper & Row. 1973. ISBN 978-0-06-014759-4.
The Morley mythology. Harper & Row. 1977. ISBN 978-0-06-014751-8.
Tony and Susan. Baskerville. 1993. ISBN 978-1-880909-01-0. reissue. Atlantic Books. 2010. ISBN 978-1-84887-021-5. (review )