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4 unusual facts about John Kirtland Wright


Charles O. Paullin

In 1933, Columbia University awarded Paullin and John Kirtland Wright the Loubat Prize for their Atlas of the Historical Geography of the United States (1932).

Choropleth map

The term "choroplethe map" was introduced 1938 by the geographer John Kirtland Wright in "Problems in Population Mapping".

John Kirtland Wright

He was the son of classical scholar John Henry Wright and novelist Mary Tappan Wright, and the brother of legal scholar and utopian novelist Austin Tappan Wright.

Karain semi-continent

When asked about this, he repeated geographer John K. Wright's opinion that the Atlantic was already "too crowded".


Austin Wright

He grew up in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, son of the geographer John Kirtland Wright and Katharine McGiffert Wright, and namesake of his uncle, Austin Tappan Wright, writer of the utopian novel, Islandia (novel).


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