David Wright (writer)
Wright at the 2016 Texas Book Festival.
David Wright (born 1964) is an American writer who grew up in Borger, Texas. He holds a B.A. from Carleton College, and an M.F.A. 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.
Books
- Wright, David & Zoby, David (July 3, 2001). Fire on the Beach: Recovering the Lost Story of Richard Etheridge and the Pea Island Lifesavers (First ed.). Scribner. ISBN 978-0684873046.
Other publications
- African American Review
- The CLA Journal
- The Journal of Negro History
- Naval History
- North Dakota Quarterly
- Reflections in Ink
- Painted Bride Quarterly
- Shenandoah
- Sixty-four
- The Southern Review
- Virginia English Bulletin
Television journalism
"The Pea Island Story", co-written and co-produced with Stephanie Frederic and David Zoby. Aired on BET Tonight, Feb. 1999.
Awards
- August 2000: National Association of Black Journalists, Salute to Excellence Award, First Prize for a Television Feature News-Story, "The Pea Island Story".
- 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".
- 1997-1998: Chancellor’s Minority Postdoctoral Fellowship, Afro-American Studies and Research Program, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
- 1994: Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Award, the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation, Fairfax, VA.
- 1993: Paul Cuffe Memorial Fellowship, Munson Institute of American Maritime Studies, Mystic, CT.
External links
- Fire on the Beach: Recovering the Lost Story of Richard Etheridge and the Pea Island Lifesavers, with photographs
- Author's page, University of Illinois
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