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
    1934 1961 related >> in a relationship with >> married to Finfrock, Marry Ellen
    1935 1938 related >> acquainted with >> correspondence with >> had intensive personal correspondence with Szápáry, Maria(nne)
    1933 related >> friendship with >> close friendship with Szápáry, Maria(nne)
    1933 1934 related >> landlady/landlord of Hunger, Käthe
    1933 related >> friendship with Lindheim, Bogislav
    1960 related >> in a relationship with >> married to Kantor, Josephine
    related >> translated by Soellner, Hedda
    1933 related >> friendship with >> close friendship with Liszt, Siegfried
    1938 related >> helped to emigrate >> tried to help to emigrate Szápáry, Maria(nne)
    1933 related >> acquainted with Deleglise, Laurent

    Place

    Start End Other relation type Related Place
    1924 lived in Chicago, IL
    1910-01-06 born in Central City, NE
    1998-04-25 died in Mill Valley, CA
    1933-10-12 1934-01-04 lived at Florianigasse 75, 1080 Vienna
    1958 visited Burg Ranna
    1933 1934 visited Burg Ranna
    1934-03 visited Italy
    1959 stayed in Venice, Italy
    1962 stayed in Venice, Italy
    1998-04-25 lived at 40 Camino Alto, Mill Valley, CA

    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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