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Austin Tappan Wright | |
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Born | Hanover, New Hampshire | August 20, 1883
Died | September 18, 1931 Santa Fe, New Mexico | (aged 48)
Occupation | Legal scholar, author |
Period | 1915–1931 |
Notable works | Islandia (1942) |
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. He was the son of classical scholar John Henry Wright and novelist Mary Tappan Wright, the brother of geographer John Kirtland Wright, and the grandfather of editor Tappan Wright King.