Louis B Wright
Louis Booker Wright was a graduate of Wofford College, and was at various times a John Simon Guggenheim Fellow, a Benjamin Franklin Medalist, and held honorary degrees from, among others, Princeton, Tulane, and California State University-Fullerton. He was the author of a number of books, including The Atlantic Frontier: Colonial American Civilization 1607-1763, Gold, Glory, and the Gospel: the Adventurous Lives of the Renaissance Explorers, Culture on the Moving Frontier, and The Dream of...See more
Louis Booker Wright was a graduate of Wofford College, and was at various times a John Simon Guggenheim Fellow, a Benjamin Franklin Medalist, and held honorary degrees from, among others, Princeton, Tulane, and California State University-Fullerton. He was the author of a number of books, including The Atlantic Frontier: Colonial American Civilization 1607-1763, Gold, Glory, and the Gospel: the Adventurous Lives of the Renaissance Explorers, Culture on the Moving Frontier, and The Dream of Prosperity in Colonial America. At the time of the preparation of this work he was Director of the Folger Shakespeare Library. See less
