Louis Booker Wright was an American author, educator and librarian.

Wright was the director of the Folger Shakespeare Library

Folger Shakespeare Library

The Folger Shakespeare Library is an independent research library on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., in the United States. It has the world's largest collection of the printed works of William Shakespeare, and is a primary repository for rare materials from the early modern period...

, the author of numerous books about the American colonial period, and in 1928 he was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship

Guggenheim Fellowship

Guggenheim Fellowships are American grants that have been awarded annually since 1925 by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts." Each year, the foundation makes...

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Publications

Wright, Louis B. The Colonial Civilization of North America, 1607-1763. London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1949.

Wright, Louis B. The Dream of Prosperity in Colonial America. New York: New York University Press, 1965.

Sources

• New General Catalog of Old Books and Authors