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Wright Morris
January 6, 1910 to April 29, 1998
Born in Central City Nebraska & Died in Mill Valley, California
Photographer, essayist, novelist, and National Book Award winner.
Quote
"If it so happened that marriage did not materialize, that disaster would be faced, but one did not think about it."
Off-Site Resource
Wright Morris Page From The University Of Nebraska Website
Bibliography
Novels
My Uncle Dudley -1942
The Home Place - 1948
The World in the Attic - 1949
Man and Boy - 1951
The Works of Love - 1951
The Deep Sleep - 1953
The Huge Season - 1954
The Field of Vision - 1956
Love Among the Cannibals - 1957
Ceremony in Lone Tree - 1960
What a Way to Go - 1962
Cause for Wonder - 1963
One Day - 1965
In Orbit - 1967
Fire Sermon - 1971
War Games - 1972
A Life - 1973
The Fork River Space Project - 1977
Autobiographies
Will's Boy: A Memoir - 1981
Solo: An American Dreamer in Europe, 1933-34 - 1983
A Cloak of Light - 1985
Writing My Life: An Autobiography - 1993
Photo-Texts
The Inhabitants - 1946
God's Country and My People - 1968
Love Affair-Venetian Journal - 1972
Structures and Artifacts: Photographs 1933-1954 - 1975
Time Pieces: Photographs, Writing, and Memory - 1989 (There is also a 40 page exhibit catalog called time pieces)
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Author Profiles
- Westlake, Donald - Bibliography
- Crane, Hart
- Pyle, Ernie
- Whitman, Walt
- Ferber, Edna
- Bowen, Elizabeth
- Barnes, Linda
- Salinger, J. D.
- Parker, Robert B.
- Thoreau, Henry David
- Miller, Henry
- Machiavelli, Niccolo
- King, Stephen
- London, Jack
- Abbey, Edward
- Asimov, Isaac
- Ballard, J. G.
- Author Index
- Morley, Christopher
- Morison, Samuel Eliot
- Ambrose, Stephen
- Hunter, Evan
- Carr, John Dickson
- Adams, Brooks
- Adams, Henry
- Adams, Richard
- Agee, James
- Alcott, Louisa May
- Anthony, Piers
- Austen, Jane
Great Quotations
- Jack London on the advantages of not being a cabbage
Author's Name Jack London Type of Quote Animals
Change"The advantage of the animal over the vegetable kingdom is obvious. The cabbage, should its environment tend to become worse, must live it out, or die; the rabbit may move on in quest of a better." - Edith Wharton on Secrets and Age
Author's Name Edith Wharton He was growing old, and beginning to need rest and an imperturbed spirit. He did not want the secrets of other lives thrust upon him. - Edith Wharton on Weddings
Author's Name Edith Wharton She says a wedding is one of the most lamentable spectacles on earth. Nice thing for a woman to say to her husband! - James Tiptree, Jr., (Alice B. Sheldon)
Anyone who shoots a real gun at you when drunk and angry is simply not husband material, regardless of his taste in literature.
- Truman Capote
Any love is natural and beautiful that lies within a person's nature; only hypocrites would hold a man responsible for what he loves.
- Jack London
"The advantage of the animal over the vegetable kingdom is obvious. The cabbage, should its environment tend to become worse, must live it out, or die; the rabbit may move on in quest of a better."
- Donald Westlake
"A gun is so clean, so impersonal. It separates you, just a bit, from the event."
- John Gregory Dunne
"Being as rich as my father had made me allowed me to nourish a small talent for irony, irony being the vehicle by which the essentially second rate arrive at some kind of superiority."
- G.K. Chesterton
"If we boast of our best, we must repent of our worst. Otherwise patriotism will be a very poor thing indeed."
- Jorge Luis Borges
"It is like two bald men fighting over a comb."
Jorge Luis Borges on the Falklands war.
- Stephen King
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