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Arts > Photo > USA > Wright Morris 1910-1998
Eroded Soil, Faulkner Country, Mississippi, 1940
For a photographer who endeavoured to capture ‘what it is to be an American’, there are remarkably few people to be found in the work of American photographer and writer Wright Morris, who died in 1998.
Photograph: Estate of Wright Morris/ courtesy of the Center for Creative Photography
The dust bowl wanderer – in pictures Wright Morris was known for his novels, yet the pictures he took while travelling through the midwest capture a vanishing way of life in Depression-era America G Wed 29 Jan 2020 07.00 GMT
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2020/jan/29/
Wright Marion Morris 1910-1998
Wright Morris ('s) taut American Gothic novels, stories, essays and photographs plumbed the mysteries of the stark Nebraska landscape and who was often called one of the nation's most unrecognized recognized writers
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a picaresque childhood and comic overseas misadventures, Mr. Morris wrote 33 books, including 19 novels, three memoirs, four books of essays, two collections of short stories and five books of annotated photographs.
His work was widely praised and honored with literary awards, but many admirers felt that in the end, Mr. Morris took literature more seriously than it took him.
'No book of mine can be read under a hair dryer, while bolting a hamburger or half-watching TV,'' he said in 1963, acknowledging his reputation as a sophisticated writer on unsophisticated subjects.
https://www.nytimes.com/1998/04/29/
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2020/jan/29/
https://www.nytimes.com/1998/04/29/
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