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Wright Morris

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Wright Marion Morris (January 6, 1910 – April 25, 1998) was an American novelist, photographer, and essayist. [1]

37 relations: Bancroft Library, Cahow Barber Shop, Center for Creative Photography, Central City, Nebraska, Chicago, Common Wealth Award of Distinguished Service, Esophageal cancer, Great Plains, Guggenheim Fellowship, John O'Hara, Lincoln City Libraries, Mari Sandoz, Mill Valley, California, Modern Language Association, Muriel Spark, National Book Award, National Book Award for Fiction, National Book Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, National Register of Historic Places, Nebraska State Historical Society, Norfolk, Nebraska, O. Henry Award, Omaha, Nebraska, Pacific Union College, Patterson Law Office, Robert Kirsch, San Francisco State University, The Field of Vision, The New Yorker, Thornton Wilder, Tucson, Arizona, Union Pacific Railroad, University of Arizona, University of Nebraska–Lincoln, Whiting Awards, Wright Morris Boyhood House.

Bancroft Library

The Bancroft Library in the center of the campus of the University of California, Berkeley, is the university's primary special-collections library.

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Cahow Barber Shop

The Cahow Barber Shop is located in Chapman, Nebraska.

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Center for Creative Photography

The Center for Creative Photography (CCP), established in 1975 and located on the University of Arizona (Tucson) campus, is a research facility and archival repository containing the full archives of over sixty of the most famous American photographers including those of Edward Weston, Harry Callahan and Garry Winogrand, as well as a collection of over 80,000 images representing more than 2,000 photographers.

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Central City, Nebraska

Central City is a city in Merrick County, Nebraska, United States.

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Chicago

Chicago, officially the City of Chicago, is the third most populous city in the United States, after New York City and Los Angeles.

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Common Wealth Award of Distinguished Service

The Common Wealth Awards of Distinguished Service (or Common Wealth Awards) were created under the will of the late Ralph Hayes, an influential American business executive and philanthropist.

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Esophageal cancer

Esophageal cancer is cancer arising from the esophagus—the food pipe that runs between the throat and the stomach.

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Great Plains

The Great Plains (sometimes simply "the Plains") is the broad expanse of flat land (a plain), much of it covered in prairie, steppe, and grassland, that lies west of the Mississippi River tallgrass prairie in the United States and east of the Rocky Mountains in the U.S. and Canada.

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Guggenheim Fellowship

Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since 1925 by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts".

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John O'Hara

John Henry O'Hara (January 31, 1905 – April 11, 1970) was an American writer who earned his early literary reputation for short stories and later became a best-selling novelist before the age of 30 with Appointment in Samarra and Butterfield 8.

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Lincoln City Libraries

Lincoln City Libraries is the official public library system in Lincoln, Nebraska, United States.

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Mari Sandoz

Mari Susette Sandoz (May 11, 1896 – March 10, 1966) was a Nebraska novelist, biographer, lecturer, and teacher.

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Mill Valley, California

Mill Valley is a city in Marin County, California, United States, located about north of San Francisco via the Golden Gate Bridge.

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Modern Language Association

The Modern Language Association of America, often referred to as the Modern Language Association (MLA), is the principal professional association in the United States for scholars of language and literature.

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Muriel Spark

Dame Muriel Sarah Spark DBE, CLit, FRSE, FRSL (née Camberg; 1 February 1918 – 13 April 2006).

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National Book Award

The National Book Awards are a set of annual U.S. literary awards.

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National Book Award for Fiction

The National Book Award for Fiction is one of four annual National Book Awards, which recognize outstanding literary work by United States citizens.

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National Book Foundation

The National Book Foundation (NBF) is an American nonprofit organization established "to raise the cultural appreciation of great writing in America".

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National Endowment for the Arts

The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) is an independent agency of the United States federal government that offers support and funding for projects exhibiting artistic excellence.

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National Register of Historic Places

The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance.

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Nebraska State Historical Society

History Nebraska, formally the Nebraska State Historical Society is a Nebraska state agency, founded in 1878 to "encourage historical research and inquiry, spread historical information...

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Norfolk, Nebraska

Norfolk is a city in Madison County, Nebraska, United States, 113 miles northwest of Omaha and 83 miles west of Sioux City at the intersection of U.S. Routes 81 and 275.

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O. Henry Award

The O. Henry Award is an annual American award given to short stories of exceptional merit.

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Omaha, Nebraska

Omaha is the largest city in the state of Nebraska and the county seat of Douglas County.

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Pacific Union College

Pacific Union College (PUC) is a private liberal arts college located in Napa Valley, California.

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Patterson Law Office

The Patterson Law Office is located in Central City, Nebraska.

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Robert Kirsch

Robert Kirsch (October 18, 1922 - August 16, 1980) was an American literary critic and author.

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San Francisco State University

San Francisco State University (commonly referred to as San Francisco State, SF State and SFSU) is a public research university located in San Francisco, California, United States.

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The Field of Vision

The Field of Vision is a 1956 novel by Wright Morris, written in the style of high modernism.

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The New Yorker

The New Yorker is an American magazine of reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry.

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Thornton Wilder

Thornton Niven Wilder (April 17, 1897 – December 7, 1975) was an American playwright and novelist.

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Tucson, Arizona

Tucson is a city and the county seat of Pima County, Arizona, United States, and home to the University of Arizona.

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Union Pacific Railroad

The Union Pacific Railroad (or Union Pacific Railroad Company and simply Union Pacific) is a freight hauling railroad that operates 8,500 locomotives over 32,100 route-miles in 23 states west of Chicago and New Orleans.

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University of Arizona

The University of Arizona (also referred to as U of A, UA, or Arizona) is a public research university in Tucson, Arizona.

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University of Nebraska–Lincoln

The University of Nebraska–Lincoln, often referred to as Nebraska, UNL or NU, is a public research university in the city of Lincoln, in the state of Nebraska in the Midwestern United States.

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Whiting Awards

The Whiting Award is an American award presented annually to ten emerging writers in fiction, nonfiction, poetry and plays.

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Wright Morris Boyhood House

The Wright Morris Boyhood House is a vernacular style house built in 1893 in Central City, Nebraska.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wright_Morris

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