Born in 1910 in Central City, Nebraska, Wright Morris wrote thirty-three books, including Field of Vision, which won the National Book Award. He died in 1998. John Hollander, Sterling Professor of English at Yale University, is a poet, critic, and the author of many books including The Gazer's Spirit.

"A Nebraska classic."—Saul Bellow "That Wright Morris in his photographs seems to produce an indecent invasion of the privacy of his text is a tribute to his accurate and selective descriptive powers."—New York Times "A pathbreaking and still unique example of the integration of photographs and narrative text."—Alan Trachtenberg "An extremely able photographer and a first-rate writer."—San Francisco Chronicle "A fine piece of Americana."—Library Journal "A superb and . . . revolutionary wedding of prose and pictures, a kind of new art form." —Omaha World-Herald

Born in 1910 in Central City, Nebraska, Wright Morris wrote thirty-three books, including Field of Vision, which won the National Book Award. He died in 1998. John Hollander, Sterling Professor of English at Yale University, is a poet, critic, and the author of many books including The Gazer's Spirit.

"A Nebraska classic."—Saul Bellow "That Wright Morris in his photographs seems to produce an indecent invasion of the privacy of his text is a tribute to his accurate and selective descriptive powers."—New York Times "A pathbreaking and still unique example of the integration of photographs and narrative text."—Alan Trachtenberg "An extremely able photographer and a first-rate writer."—San Francisco Chronicle "A fine piece of Americana."—Library Journal "A superb and . . . revolutionary wedding of prose and pictures, a kind of new art form." —Omaha World-Herald

Born in 1910 in Central City, Nebraska, Wright Morris wrote thirty-three books, including Field of Vision, which won the National Book Award. He died in 1998. John Hollander, Sterling Professor of English at Yale University, is a poet, critic, and the author of many books including The Gazer's Spirit.

"A Nebraska classic."—Saul Bellow "That Wright Morris in his photographs seems to produce an indecent invasion of the privacy of his text is a tribute to his accurate and selective descriptive powers."—New York Times "A pathbreaking and still unique example of the integration of photographs and narrative text."—Alan Trachtenberg "An extremely able photographer and a first-rate writer."—San Francisco Chronicle "A fine piece of Americana."—Library Journal "A superb and . . . revolutionary wedding of prose and pictures, a kind of new art form." —Omaha World-Herald