WRIGHT, Austin Tappan

WRIGHT, Austin Tappan
(1883-1931)
   US lawyer who spent much of his leisure time composing numerous manuscripts about a very large imaginary ISLAND called Islandia, a place easily described as a UTOPIA, though in fact too densely imagined and free of cognitive shaping to fit happily into that conventional category; the island was conceived as being set near the Antarctic and relating complexly to the real world. Unlike J.R.R. TOLKIEN, whose The Lord of the Rings (1954-5) originated in similar private activities, ATWdied before putting his work into publishable form, and his daughter, Sylvia Wright, with the help of Mark SAXTON (whom see for hiscontinuations), condensed a number of his manuscripts into the novel Islandia (1942; with intro by Basil DAVENPORT), an enormous bookostensibly describing the travels of a visitor to the island, and in fact providing an extremely elaborate picture of an invented alternative society and its - richly drawn - inhabitants.
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