Austin Wright (other)
Austin Wright (1922 – 2003) was a novelist, literary critic and professor emeritus of English. Austin Wright may also refer to: * Austin Andrew Wright, British sculptor *Austin Tappan Wright Austin Tappan Wright (August 20, 1883 – September 18, 1931) was an American legal scholar and author, best remembered for his major work of Utopian fiction, ''Islandia (novel), Islandia''. He was the son of classical scholar John Henry Wright ...

Austin Wright
Austin McGiffert Wright (1922 – April 23, 2003) was an American novelist, literary critic and professor emeritus of English at the University of Cincinnati. Life and career Wright was born in Yonkers, New York. He grew up in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, the son of the geographer John Kirtland Wright and Katharine McGiffert Wright, and namesake of his uncle, Austin Tappan Wright, writer of the utopian novel, '' Islandia''. His paternal grandparents were classical scholar John Henry Wright and novelist Mary Tappan Wright. He graduated from Harvard University in 1943. He served in the Army (1943–1946). He graduated from the University of Chicago, with a master's degree in 1948, and a Ph.D. in 1959. He married Sara Hull Wright, in 1950. They had three children: Joanna Wright (died 2000), Katharine Wright of Berkeley, CA, and Margaret Wright, and two granddaughters, Madeline Giscombe and Elizabeth Perkins. Austin Wright was a professor in the English Department at the Universi ...
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Austin Andrew Wright
Austin Andrew Wright (4 June 1911, Chester – 22 February 1997, Upper Poppleton, York) was a British sculptor and teacher. Life Wright was brought up in Cardiff where he took his first artistic steps in evening classes at Cardiff School of Art & Design, Cardiff Art School before studying Modern Languages at New College, Oxford. Following his teacher training his first post was at The Downs, the Malvern College preparatory school, in 1934, where he taught painting and sculpture as well as French and German. W.H. Auden was a fellow teacher there. He moved to Yorkshire in 1937 and lived and worked in York (where Auden was born), initially at Bootham School, where he had earlier undertaken his teacher-training and where he began working as a sculptor. Without any formal art training, Austin, according to James Hamilton, ''The sculpture of Austin Wright'', 1994. “approached Henry Moore for advice and encouragement, and recalled being told, quite bluntly, ''just to get on with ...
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