Wright Morris

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  • Bibliography:
    33 Books
  • First Book:
    August 1962
  • Latest Book:
    September 2022
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Book List in Order: 33 titles

  • Ceremony Lone

  • One Day

    "Laying sure hands on the daily is Wright Morris's forte. What the rest of us may have accepted too casually he sets upon with his own highly specialized focus. In this novel, more than ever, the texture of the day and hour, the fabric of speech, the...

  • The Home Place

    Reproduced from the 1948 edition of The Home Place, the Bison Book edition brings back into print an important early work by one of the most highly regarded of contemporary American Writers. This account in first-person narrative and photographs of t...

  • The World in the Attic

    Wright Morris's "Nebraska Trilogy" (1946-49) embodies his attempt to capture and come to terms with his past. According to David Madden, in his study Wright Morris, "In The Inhabitants [a picture collection] the emphasis is on the arti...

  • Fire Sermon

    "A radiant expression of the art [Wright Morris] has developed through thirty years and fourteen earlier novels. Although it is anything but preachy it will stick in the minds of the congregation for a long time. . . . On the one hand, this is a nove...

  • A Life

    Floyd Warner, eighty-two, has driven from California to his childhood home in Nebraska in his antique Maxwell coupe. There he confronts the smoldering remains of this late sister's house and the realization that he is now completely alone. As though ...

  • Man And Boy

    "I have read and admired all of Morris's books, and there is no doubt in my mind that he is one of the most truly original of contemporary writers. His originality, his absolutely individual way of seeing and feeling, permeates Man and Boy, giving it...

  • The Field of Vision

    "Wright Morris seems to me the most important novelist of the American middle generation. Through a large body of work â€"which, unaccountably, has yet to receive the wide attention it deserves -- Mr. Morris has adhered to standards which we have com...

  • My Uncle Dudley

    My Uncle Dudley is Wright Morris's first novel, originally published in 1942....



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  • The Huge Season

    In this novel, set in 1952 but intermingling the past and present, the protagonist reviews the effects of the Jazz Age on himself and a friend, recalling their exploits in college, in Paris, and in love. The result is the picture of a generation.<...

  • In Orbit

    One of the most distinguished American authors, Wright Morris (1910-1998) wrote thirty-three books including The Field of Vision, which won the National Book Award....

  • The Fork River space project

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  • The Territory Ahead

  • War Games

    Written twenty years before it was first published in 1972, War Games features both black and charcoal-gray humor, whose characters and events are as unpredictable as they are absorbing--a book, in the author's words, "where the extremity of the biza...

  • Cause for Wonder

    One of the most distinguished American authors, Wright Morris (1910-1988) wrote thirty-three books including The Field of Vision, which won the National Book Award....

  • What a Way to Go

    The reader of this rollicking novel, first published in 1962, accompanies forty-seven-year-old Professor Arnold Soby (regarded by his girl students as safe and acceptable, but also good fun) on a sabbatical voyage to Italy and Greece. Among Soby's sh...

  • Plains Song, for Female Voices

    Cora, a resolute Midwesterner, stands at the heart of this saga of three generations of the Atkins family and, more particularly, of its women, from the early years of the twentieth century to the 1970s...

  • A Bill of Rites, a Bill of Wrongs, a Bill of Goods



  • God's Country and My People

  • Collected Stories, 1948-1986

  • Three Easy Pieces

    Three of Wright Morris's most memorable explorations of old age: The Fork River Space Project (1977), Fire Sermon (1971), and A Life (1973).

    Fork River, Kansas, was established in the 1870s by a railroad tycoon as a gift for his young bride. N...

  • Two for the Road: Man and Boy // In Orbit

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  • Two for the Road

    Two for the Roadbrings together a pair of thematically related novels, Man and Boy (1951) and In Orbit (1967), each of which concerns a rural American community’s response to petty tyranny....

  • Plains Song

    "Nowhere in [Morris's] fiction does emotion emerge from detail so beautifully as in this precise and vivid book. . . . The triumph of the book, in terms of craft, is that we experience the sense of the slow passage of time so necessary to such a stor...

  • Ceremony in the Lone Tree

    Although Tom Scanlon would just as soon spend it alone, his ninetieth birthday becomes the occasion for a family gathering in the Midwestern town of Lone Tree. The unlikely celebrants take this opportunity to reconceive their visions of past, future,...

  • The Deep Sleep

    "'Judge Howard Potter, one of the most respected and influential citizens of a suburban town outside of Philadelphia, lies dead after a long and wearying illness. He is survived by the five people who knew him best and whose lives were deeply influen...

  • The Man Who was There

    When it first appeared in 1945, this novel disconcerted a good many critics: Agee Ward, "the man who was there" of the title, ostensibly is the man who is not there--a member of the armed forces in World War II, he has been reported missing in action...

  • Ceremony in Lone Tree

    Although Tom Scanlon would just as soon spend it alone, his ninetieth birthday becomes the occasion for a family gathering in the Midwestern town of Lone Tree. The unlikely celebrants take this opportunity to reconceive their visions of past, future,...



  • Love Among the Cannibals

    Speaking of this 1957 novel, the author has said it ended his obsession with the reconstruction of the immediate past and moved him into the contemporary scene. The narrator, Earl Horter, is a lyric writer who is in Hollywood with Mac, his partner...

  • Wright Morris Territory

    Best known for his novels, including the National Book Award winners The Field of Vision and Plains Song, Nebraska-born author Wright Morris has long been regarded as one of America’s most gifted writers. This volume, culling work from the photo-te...

  • The Works of Love

    "When I was a boy of eight in the Platte Valley of Nebraska, my father made the first of the many moves that would prove to be of interest to a future writer of fiction. They were east to Chicago, the point on the map where all the lines pointed. Alm...

  • Real Losses, Imaginary Gains

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Award-Winning Books by Wright Morris

Plains Song
1981 National Book Award -- Fiction (Hardcover)


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Wright Morris has published 33 books.

Wright Morris does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Works of Love, was published in September 2022.

The first book by Wright Morris, Ceremony Lone, was published in August 1962.

No. Wright Morris does not write books in series.
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