David Wright (writer)

David Wright
Wright at the 2016 Texas Book Festival.
Born	1964 (age 59–60)
Occupation	Professor, writer
Language	English
Education	Carleton College (BA) University of Massachusetts Amherst College of Humanities and Fine Arts (MFA)

David Wright (born 1964) is an American writer.

Early life and education

Wright grew up in Borger, Texas. His mother is a white Jewish woman who survived the Nazi occupation of Paris. Her parents were affluent, assimilated French Jews. His mother was a member of the French Communist Party; she immigrated to the US in the 1950s as the GI bride of an African-American soldier.^[1] He holds a BA from Carleton College and an MFA from the MFA Program for Poets & Writers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He also studied at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales. Before he started teaching creative writing, he was a player/coach on various American football teams in Paris and London. He teaches at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

He has also published under the name "David Wright Faladé", in honor of his biological father. His father Maximien Faladé was a devout Catholic from Porto-Novo in Benin, the grandson of Béhanzin, the last King of Dahomey.^[2]

Works

Books

• Black Cloud Rising, Atlantic Monthly Press, February 2022.^{[3] [4]}
• Bouchard, Luc; Wright, David (April 12, 2016). Away Running. Victoria, British Columbia: Orca Books. ISBN 978-1-4598-1048-8. OCLC 913176274.^[5][6][7][8]
• Wright, David; Zoby, David (2002). Fire on the Beach: Recovering the Lost Story of Richard Etheridge and the Pea Island Lifesavers. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-515484-3. OCLC 49284293.^{[9][10][11][12]}

Short stories

• "The Sand Banks, 1861" (2020)^[13]

Documentary film

• Rescue Men: The Story of the Pea Island Lifesavers (2010).^[14]

Television journalism

• "The Pea Island Story", co-written and co-produced with Stephanie Frederic and David Zoby. Aired on BET Tonight, February 1999.^{[citation needed]}

Awards

• 2017: International Board on Books for Young People, grades 9–12, Away Running^[15]
• 2011: Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil.^[16]
• 2009: North Carolina Humanities Council, Large Grant, for production of Rescue Men: The Story of the Pea Island Lifesavers.^{[citation needed]}
• 2005: Dobie-Paisano Fellowship, University of Texas and the Texas Institute of Letters.^{[citation needed]}
• 2004: Tennessee Williams Scholar, Sewanee Writers’ Conference.^{[citation needed]}
• 1999: National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Institute for College and University Faculty Fellow, W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research, Harvard University, "The Civil Rights Movement: History and Consequences".^{[citation needed]}
• 1997–1998: Chancellor’s Minority Postdoctoral Fellowship, Afro-American Studies and Research Program, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.^{[citation needed]}
• 1994: Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Award, the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation, Fairfax, VA.^{[citation needed]}
• 1993: Paul Cuffe Memorial Fellowship, Munson Institute of American Maritime Studies, Mystic, Connecticut.^{[citation needed]}

References

External links

• Official website

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