General Info | TEI
Name | Morris, Wright |
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Alternative Names | |
ID | 447 |
Gender | male |
Lifespan | 1910-01-06 - 1998-04-25 |
Professions | photographer (Q33231), novelist (Q6625963), essayist (Q11774202) |
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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 |
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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 |
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1933 | 1934 | landlady/landlord of | Hunger, Käthe |
1935 | 1938 | had intensive personal correspondence with | Szápáry, Maria(nne) |
1934 | 1961 | married to | Finfrock, Marry Ellen |
1933 | — | close friendship with | Szápáry, Maria(nne) |
1933 | — | friendship with | Lindheim, Bogislav |
1960 | — | married to | Kantor, Josephine |
— | — | translated by | Soellner, Hedda |
1933 | — | close friendship with | Liszt, Siegfried |
1938 | — | tried to help to emigrate | Szápáry, Maria(nne) |
1933 | — | acquainted with | Deleglise, Laurent |
Place
Start | End | Other relation type | Related Place |
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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 |
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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 |