Austin Tappan Wright (1883–1931)
Author of Islandia
About the Author
A Harvard-educated lawyer, Austin Tappan Wright was born to a distinguished family. His father was Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University, and his mother was a respected novelist. After serving in the Boston law firm of Louis Brandeis, Wright took faculty positions show more at the University of California Law School (Berkeley) and the University of Pennsylvania. He died at the age of 48 in an automobile accident leaving thousands of pages of manuscript detailing his lifelong construction of a wholly imagined world -- what was to become an acknowledged classic of utopian fantasy, Islandia. show less
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- Legal name
- Wright, Austin Tappan
- Birthdate
- 1883-08-27
- Date of death
- 1931-09-18
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Hanover, New Hampshire, USA
- Place of death
- Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
- Places of residence
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Berkeley, California, USA
Boston, Massachusetts, USA - Education
- Harvard College (1901-5)
Harvard Law School (1908)
Oxford University (1906-1907) - Occupations
- Lawyer
Legal Scholar
Professor
author - Relationships
- King, Tappan (grandson)
Wright, Margaret Garrad Stone (wife)
Wright, Sylvia (daughter)
King, Phylis Wright (daughter)
Wright, William Austen (son)
Wright, Benjamin Tappan (son) (show all 8)
Mitchell, Lucy Myers Wright (aunt)
Wright, John Henry (father) - Organizations
- University of California, Berkeley (Law School, 1916-1924)
University of Pennsylvania (Law School, 1924-1931)
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