What you think of yourself is much more important than what other think of you.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca, 4 – 65
James Arlington Wright biography at QuotationFun

A Short Biography of James Arlington Wright

Author Name:

James Arlington Wright

Born As:

Other Names:

Born:

13 Dec 1927

Died:

25 Mar 1980




author picture 
Poet                          
Selected Works:

The Green Wall - 1957
Saint Judas (Wesleyan University Press - 1959
The Branch Will Not Break - 1963
Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio - 1963
Shall We Gather at the River - 1967
Collected Poems - 1971
Two Citizens - 1973
Moments of the Italian Summer - 1976
To a Blossoming Pear Tree - 1977

Published posthumously:

This Journey - 1982; completed in 1980
The Temple at Nîmes - 1982
James Wright, In Defense Against This Exile. Letters To Wayne Burns., edited with an introduction by John R. Doheny - 1985
Above the River - The Complete Poems, introduction by Donald Hall - 1992

Selected Poems - 2005
A Wild Perfection: The Selected Letters of James Wright - 2005
The Delicacy and Strength of Lace: Letters Between Leslie Marmon Silko and James Wright., edited by Anne Wright and Joy Harjo - 2009                          
First wife Liberty Kardules - two sons, Franz and Marshall - diorced 1962.
Second wife - Edith Ann Runk.                          
Awarded the Yale Younger Poets Prize in 1956 with The Green Wall, a collection of formalist verse.