SOURCE: “Talk with Wright Morris,” in The New York Times, June 10, 1951, p. 19.

In the following essay, Breit reports on a conversation in which Morris distinguishes between the processes of revealing and exposing.

Wright Morris, author of the recently published novel, Man and Boy, is a fully matured, civilized, hard-thinking, friendly 41-year-old fellow. He is the possessor of a compact, stocky frame, as well as of a hazardously upright and virile thicket of hair that must be, beyond any shadow of a doubt, the cynosure of all wearers of toupees. This crowning glory may have something to do with the fact that Mr. Morris comes out of Nebraska (sometimes known as the Tree Planter State) and attended Pomona College (in mythology, Pomona is the goddess of fruit trees). The symbol of growth, at any rate, seems to have chosen Mr. Morris for a friend—and it may very well...