Morris, Wright. Wright Morris by Leon Howard. Pamphlets on American Writers No. 96.

University of Minnesota, 1968. Wraps, 48 pages. Ex-library with spine label, spine taped, o/w fine.  Wright Morris is remembered both as an author and as a photographer.

Wright Morris (1910–1998) was an acclaimed American novelist, essayist, and photographer recognized for pioneering the "photo-text" genre that seamlessly paired documentary photography with fictional prose. Born in Central City,Nebraska, Morris drew deep inspiration from the landscape and material culture of the Great Plains, capturing stark black-and-white images of weathered farmhouses, abandoned interiors, antique furniture, and everyday artifacts during trips across rural America in the late 1930s and 1940s. Rather than using photographs to illustrate his written narrative directly,he placed image and text side-by-side to evoke a shared sense of nostalgia, memory, and the unseen human presence behind ordinary objects, most notably in groundbreaking books such as The Inhabitants (1946) and The Home Place(1948). Though he earned major literary accolades—including the National Book Award for fiction—Morris was also awarded multiple Guggenheim Fellowships for his photography, cementing his dual legacy as both a major 20th-century American author and a master of quiet, poetic documentary imagery.