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.