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50 mm glass slide, dated August 26, 1926. From the New York State Education Department, Visual Instruction Division. Negative No. B14352.  "Arizona.  Near Tucson.  Home of Harold Bell Wright; Cacti and Other Desert Vegetation"  (Photo courtesy Robert Lewis.)

     Wright probably got more involved in the civic affairs of Tucson than any other city that he lived in.  He built a large home eight miles east of Tucson.  That home is still standing and can be seen at the Southeast corner of East Speedway Blvd. and North Wilmot Road.  The home, now in the Arizona Register of Historic Places, is surrounded by nice suburban homes on streets named after Wright’s books and fictional characters.  Lawrence V. Tagg would like you to know that the photo on the back of the dust jacket of his biography of Wright is not the correct home.  You can see photos of Wright’s actual home in the postcard section of this web site, under Tucson.

     The University of Arizona at Tucson Library contains most of the manuscripts of Wright’s sermons, plus other important Wright documents. Click here for catalog of HBW Collection.

     Click here for an excellent feature story with photos, The Novelist Who Shaped The City, Harold Bell Wright's Tucson Legacy Combines Eastward Sprawl With Desert Passion, By James L. Sell, from the Tucson Weekly, November 09, 2000.

     See also Ointment of Love: Oliver E. Comstock and Tucson's Tent City, by Dick Hall, Journal of Arizona History, 1978.  More excellent information on Wright in Tucson.