Austin Tappan Wright

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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.

Life and family

Wright was born in Hanover, New Hampshire. He married, November 14, 1912, Margaret Garrad Stone. They had four children, William Austin, Sylvia, Phyllis, and Benjamin Tappan. The family lived successively in Berkeley, California, and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Wright died as a result of an automobile accident near Santa Fe, New Mexico, on September 18, 1931. He was survived by his wife, children and brother.

Education

Wright entered Harvard College in 1901, graduating with an A.B. degree in 1905. He enrolled in the Harvard Law School in 1906, interrupting his course of study there to attend Oxford University for a year in 1906–1907 before returning and graduating cum laude with an LL.B. degree in 1908. He was on the editorial staff of the Harvard Law Review during his last year at Harvard.

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Professional career

Wright served with Brandeis, Dunbar and Nutter in Boston, after which he taught at the University of California, Berkeley, 1916-1944. His teaching career was halted by a time when he served as an assistant counsel to the United States. The Shipping Board and the United States are collaborating in a new way. In World War I, the Shipping Board in San Francisco founded the Emergency Fleet Corporation. After the war, he was also a partner with the San Francisco law firm Thatcher and Wright from 1919-1944. Wright taught at the University of Pennsylvania from 1924 to 1931. He taught at Stanford University in 1922, 1924, University of Michigan, 1924, and the University of Southern California in 1931 as a visiting or acting professor. He taught topics such as Agency, Common Law Procedure, Partnership, People, Military Corporations, Admiralty, Mortgage, Municipal Corporation, Military Law, and Torts, his main interests being concerned with Corporations, Common Law Procedures, and Admiralty. He has published extensively in numerous law journals, including the California Law Review and the University of Pennsylvania Law Review.

Literary career

Though Wright's academic colleagues knew he had literary ambitions outside of his field and some hoped that his literary career would grow into other fields of literature, his early death barred such possibilities. He only published one piece of fiction during his lifetime, the short story "1915?" The Atlantic Monthly was published in April 1915.

Any one outside Wright's family knew he was long researching a Utopian fantasies about an imaginary land he named Islandia, with a lengthy history, culture, and geography that is comparable to J. R. Tolkien's life-long Middle-earth essays. He left a 2300-page manuscript of a novel about the country's area with appendices including a glossary of the Islandian language, population tables, a historic peerage, and a map of each of the country's provinces. A new book-length manuscript is supposed to be a general history of the country.

Following Wright's death, his widow typed and edited the manuscript for publication, and their daughter Sylvia, a shorn of Wright's appendices, was finally published in 1942, as well as a Basil Davenport brochure An Introduction to Islandia; its history, customs, terminology, and geography based on the original supplementary text.

Islandia became a cult classic and Mark Saxton's three sequels followed.

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