Wright Morris Centennial Conference
October 9, 2010
The Wright Morris Centennial Conference celebrated the author in the centennial year of his birth. Thank you to those of you who joined us. For more information and to view videos of the presentations that were featured at the conference, please scroll down.
Joseph J. Wydeven
“Wright Morris, Nebraska Novelist and Photographer: Images of His Boyhood in Will’s Boy and The Home Place”
David Madden
“Observations of The Home Place”
Susanne Bloomfield
“Making Do: Wright Morris’ Cora and Her Sisterhood”
Stephen Arkin
“Wright Morris’ California Years”
“The imagination made us human, but being human, becoming more human, is a greater burden than we imagined. We have no choice but to imagine ourselves more human than we are.”
— Wright Morris