persons Morris, Wright

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Name Morris, Wright
Alternative Names
ID 447
Gender male
Lifespan 1910-01-06 - 1998-04-25
Professions photographer (Q33231), novelist (Q6625963), essayist (Q11774202)
Collection(s)
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  • Transatlantic Networks
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  • Uri(s) https://id.acdh.oeaw.ac.at/ica/persons/1_107
    Notes Morris's stay in Austria in the winter of 1933-34 provided a major impetus for him to develop his creative talent. Several formative experiences during that year haunted him and prompted his decision to present them in narratives and thus become a writer. He dealt with his experiences in Vienna and especially in an ancient castle in Lower Austria, north of the Danube, not only in "Solo," fifty years afterwards, when he presented the strange facts of his stay, but he fictionalized them in a complex novel, entitled "Cause for Wonder," published in 1963, twenty years earlier. (see Zacharasiewicz, Transatlantic Networks, p. 147).
    References see Zacharasiewicz, Transatlantic Networks, ch. 7 as well as Zacharasiewicz, Waldemar. "Transatlantic Networks and Their Significance for Refugees from Central Europe to the United States, 1938–1949.” Journal of Austrian-American History Vol. 2, No. 2 (2018): 77-90. Morris's papers are archived at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln.

    Relations

    Institution

    Start End Other relation type Related Institution
    1933-10 1934-01 related >> visited >> regularly visited Foreign Students Club
    1933 related >> attended Pomona College, California
    related >> studied at University of Nebraska - Lincoln

    Person

    Start End Other relation type Related Person
    mentee of Howard, Leon
    1933 close friendship with Liszt, Siegfried
    1933 acquainted with Deleglise, Laurent
    1960 married to Kantor, Josephine
    1933 friendship with Lindheim, Bogislav
    1933 1934 landlady/landlord of Hunger, Käthe
    translated by Soellner, Hedda
    1934 1961 married to Finfrock, Marry Ellen
    1933 close friendship with Szápáry, Maria(nne)
    1938 tried to help to emigrate Szápáry, Maria(nne)

    Place

    Start End Other relation type Related Place
    1910-01-06 related >> born in Central City, NE
    1998-04-25 related >> died in Mill Valley, CA
    1933-10-12 1934-01-04 related >> lived at Florianigasse 75, 1080 Vienna
    1933 1934 related >> visited Burg Ranna
    1998-04-25 related >> lived at 40 Camino Alto, Mill Valley, CA
    1934-01-04 related >> lived in Mühldorf
    1910-01-06 Place of Birth Nebraska
    1924 related >> lived in Chicago, IL
    1934-03 related >> visited Italy
    1959 related >> stayed in Venice, Italy

    Work

    Start End Other relation type Related Work
    1993 related >> wrote >> author of Writing My Life: An Autobiography
    related >> wrote >> author of Solo: An American Dreamer in Europe: 1933-1934
    1963 related >> wrote >> author of Cause for Wonder
    1971 related >> wrote >> author of Here is Einbaum
    1985 related >> wrote >> author of A Cloak of Light: Writing My Life
    1981 related >> wrote >> author of Will's Boy
    1942 related >> wrote >> author of My Uncle Dudley
    1946 related >> wrote >> author of The Inhabitants
    1948 related >> wrote >> author of The Homeplace
    related >> wrote >> author of Love Affair: A Venetian Journal

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