Frances Woodworth Wright (April 30, 1897 – July 30, 1989) was an American astronomer based at Harvard University.

[1] As a child in 1907, Wright wrote a short essay titled "My Favorite Poem", for the popular national children's magazine St.

[8] The two women traveled across the United States by car together in 1930, to visit observatories in the American west, camping along the way.

[16] She was also co-author of Basic Marine Navigation (1944, with Bart Bok)[17] and The Large Magellanic Cloud (1967, with Paul W.

[24] In 1976, the minor planet 2133 Franceswright was named in her honor, after its discovery at the Harvard College Observatory.