Wright Morris (Critical Survey of Short Fiction)

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In a career that began in 1942, Wright Morris has published everything but plays and poems. Known primarily as a novelist, he is also a photographer and has created books of photographs such as The Inhabitants (1946), with accompanying text, which present his view of the artifacts of American lives. He has even incorporated his photographs into a novel, The Home Place (1948). He is an essayist, offering his interpretations of literature and culture in general in works such as The Territory Ahead (1958, 1963). The first fifty years of...

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