Will’s Boy (Masterplots II: Nonfiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Wright Morris
- First Published: 1981
- Type of Work: Memoir
- Time of Work: 1910-1960
- Setting: Omaha, Chicago, Paris, Austria, and Italy
- Principal Characters: Wright Morris, Will Morris, Jo Kantor
- Genres: Nonfiction
- Subjects: Self-discovery
Form and Content
The two major studies of Wright Morris’ work, David Madden’s Wright Morris (1964) and G.B. Crump’s The Novels of Wright Morris: A Critical Interpretation (1978), begin with similar statements of puzzlement over the reading public’s neglect of this writer. Morris’ more than thirty volumes, of which his novels represent more than half, include phototexts, essays, short stories, and memoirs. Despite having won both the National Book Award and the American Book Award, Morris had not by the beginning of the 1980’s attracted a sufficient...
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