From the Chicago Tribune

'Tony and Susan' by Austin Wright

This week's editors choice is 'Tony and Susan' by Austin Wright

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"Tony and Susan" by Austin Wright

August 24, 2011|By Elizabeth Taylor | Literary editor

Tony & Susan Travels the World!

Coming out soon in Czech!

 That makes 15 languages now.

On Amazon's website, I just discovered that Tony and Susan is mentioned in note 22 in the "Back Matter" in The Essential Wayne Booth.

Ian McEwan mentions Tony & Susan in an interview

On the Leonard Lopate Show, 93.9 WNYC, Ian McEwan responds to this question:

What have you read or seen lately (book, film, play etc . . .) that moved or surprised you?

US novelist Austin Wright’s book Tony and Susan.

I'm pleased, I suppose, because I (KEW) really like Ian McEwan.

John Kirtland Wright holding a young Gerry (Gertrude Wright McPherson) and Austin.

Homage from a former student & friend

I found this on the internet recently:
The Reliable Narrator Blog

Austin Wright was a novelist and critic. He wrote under the name Austin Wright, Austin M. Wright and Austin McGiffert Wright.

He was the son of the distinguished geographer, John Kirtland Wright. Both of his grandmothers were writers, one a novelist, Mary Tappan Wright, and one a poet, Gertrude Huntington Wright. His uncle, also named Austin (Austin Tappan Wright) was the author of the cult classic Islandia.