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Wright Morris

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Born January 1, 1910
Died January 1, 1998 (88 years old)
Central City, United States
Also known as: Morris, Wright, 1910-, Wright. Morris
40 books
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34 readers

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American photographer and novelist

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Photographs and Words

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A native of Nebraska, Wright Morris has frequently turned to the camera to capture and preserve the structures and artifacts that he knew to be vanishing.

Cause for wonder

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To the haunted ruins of a Danube castle are summoned a bizarre group of mourners to attend the funeral of a man not yet dead.

Ceremony in Lone Tree

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"Although Tom Scanlon would just as soon spend it alone, his ninetieth birthday becomes the occasion for a family gathering in the Midwestern town of Lone Tree. The unlikely celebrants take this opportunity to reconceive their visions of past, future, and family in their own grotesque and ultimately liberating ways."--BOOK JACKET.

The territory ahead

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Essays on American writers, appraising the work of Thoreau, Twain, Whitman, Wolfe, Faulkner, and others.