Mary Tappan Wright

Mary Tappan Wright
Wright, c. 1894
BornMary Tappan
(1851-12-14)December 14, 1851
Steubenville, Ohio
DiedAugust 25, 1916(1916-08-25) (aged 64)
Cambridge, Massachusetts
OccupationNovelist, short story writer
NationalityAmerican
Period1887–1912
Notable worksAliens (1902)

Mary Tappan Wright (1851–1916) was an American novelist and short story writer best known for her acute characterizations and depictions of academic life. She was the wife of classical scholar John Henry Wright and the mother of legal scholar and utopian novelist Austin Tappan Wright and geographer John Kirtland Wright.