Franz Wright

Quick Facts

Full Name	Franz Wright
Occupation	Poet
Date Of Birth	Mar 18, 1953(1953-03-18)
Age	71
Date Of Death	2015-05-14
Birthplace	Vienna
Country	Austria
Horoscope	Pisces

Franz Wright Biography

Franz Wright is one of the most popular and richest Poet who was born on March 18, 1953 in Vienna, Austria. Austrian-American poet, who was awarded the award of 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Walking to Martha’s Vineyard. Other poetry collections include Kindertotenwald God’s Silence as well as The Beforelife.

He was heavily influenced in his work by He was influenced by Dylan Thomas..

Wright was born in Vienna, Austria. He graduated from Oberlin College in 1977.

Writing in the New York Review of Books, Helen Vendler said “Wright’s scale of experience, like Berryman’s, runs from the homicidal to the ecstatic… [His poems’] best forms of originality [are] deftness in patterning, startling metaphors, starkness of speech, compression of both pain and joy, and a stoic self-possession with the agonies and penalties of existence.” Novelist Denis Johnson has said Wright’s poems “are like tiny jewels shaped by blunt, ruined fingers–miraculous gifts.” The Boston Review has called Wright’s poetry “among the most honest, haunting, and human being written today.” Poet and critic Ernest Hilbert wrote for Random House’s magazine Bold Type that “Wright oscillates between direct and evasive dictions, between the barroom floor and the arts club podium, from aphoristic aside to icily poetic abstraction.” Walking to Martha’s Vineyard (2003) in particular, was well received. According to Publishers Weekly, the collection features “[h]eartfelt but often cryptic poems…fans will find Wright’s self-diagnostics moving throughout.” The New York Times noted that Wright promises, and can deliver, great depths of feeling, while observing that Wright depends very much on our sense of his tone, and on our belief not just that he means what he says but that he has said something new…[on this score] Walking to Martha’s Vineyard sometimes succeeds.”

The father of his son, His father, James Wright, was also a Pulitzer Prize- winning poet. He married Elizabeth Oehlkers in 1999. was also an award-winning poet. He was married to Elizabeth Oehlkers in 1999.

Franz Wright Net Worth

Franz Wright is one of the richest Poet from Austria. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Franz Wright 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He was a student at Oberlin College. A year before the time of his graduation wrote his first collection of poetry entitled The white Cane of Solitude.

He translated the poems of Rainer Maria Rilke.

Franz Wright (March 18, 1953 – May 14, 2015) was an American poet. He and his father James Wright are the only parent/child pair to have won the Pulitzer Prize in the same category.

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Who is Franz Wright Dating?

According to our records, Franz Wright married to Elizabeth Oehlkers Wright. As of December 1, 2023, Franz Wright’s is not dating anyone.

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Wright died of terminal lung cancer at his home in Waltham, Massachusetts on May 14, 2015.

Facts & Trivia

Franz Ranked on the list of most popular Poet. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Austria. Franz Wright celebrates birthday on March 18 of every year.