Austin Wright

• Name — Austin Wright • Born — September 6, 1922 • Birthplace — Yonkers, New York, U.S. • Died — 23 April 2003 • Place of death — Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S. • Occupation — * Novelist • literary critic • professor • author • Genre — Fiction, criticism • Notable Works — Tony and Susan • Spouse — Sara Hull Wright • Children — Katharine, Joanna, Margaret • Relatives — John Kirtland Wright, Austin Tappan Wright, John Henry Wright, Arthur Cushman McGiffert, Mary Tappan Wright • Awards — Whiting Award

Wright was born in Yonkers, New York. He grew up in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, the 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. His paternal grandparents were classical scholar John Henry Wright and novelist Mary Tappan Wright. 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. Austin Wright was a professor in the English Department at the University of Cincinnati for almost forty years. Wright died in 2003 in Cincinnati. When he died, he had realized certain proceeds from the sale of movie rights to his book Tony and Susan, but he had no reason to believe that a film would actually be made. Tony and Susan was re-issued, and became a major film, Nocturnal Animals (2016).

• Camden's Eyes Doubleday, 1969 * * * • (review) * * *

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