David Wright | |
|---|---|
 Wright at the 2016 Texas Book Festival. | |
| Born | 1964 (age 58–59) |
| 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.
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.
- 2005: Dobie-Paisano Fellowship, University of Texas and the Texas Institute of Letters.
- 2004: Tennessee Williams Scholar, Sewanee Writers’ Conference.
- 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, Connecticut.
References
- ↑ "The Truth About My Father". The New Yorker. Retrieved March 22, 2023.
- ↑ Leyshon, Cressida. "David Wright Faladé on Complicated Backstories". The New Yorker. Retrieved August 31, 2020.
- ↑ Garner (February 14, 2022). "A Rousing Novel Follows a Brigade of Black Soldiers in the Civil War". The New York Times. Retrieved February 14, 2022.
- ↑ Citeweb|title='Black Cloud Rising' novelizes the leader of an all-Black brigade in the Civil War|url=https://www.npr.org/2022/02/23/1082621863/black-cloud-rising-novelizes-the-leader-of-an-all-black-brigade-in-the-civil-war%7Caccess-date=2022-03-03%7Cwebsite=National Public Radio|language=en-us
- ↑ Dror, Stephanie (March 21, 2016). "Away Running". Quill & Quire. Retrieved September 1, 2020.
- ↑ Huenemann, Karyn (February 1, 2016). "Away Running (review)". Resource Links (Society for Canadian Educational Resources). 21 (3): 18–19.
- ↑ Krieger-Munday, Courtney (April 2016). "Wright, David, and Luc Bouchard. Away Running". Voice of Youth Advocates (VOYA). 9 (1): 69.
- ↑ Bouchard, Luc (October 1, 2016). "Away Running". School Library Journal. Retrieved September 1, 2020.
- ↑ Yardley, Jonathan (July 29, 2001). "Review of Fire on the Beach". The Washington Post. Retrieved August 31, 2020.
- ↑ Steelman, Ben (July 22, 2001). "Review of Fire on the Beach". Wilmington Star News. Retrieved September 1, 2020.
- ↑ Gill, Leonard (October 9, 2001). "Operation Rescue". Memphis Flyer. Retrieved September 1, 2020.
- ↑ Stover, Douglas (2008). "Pea Island Life-Saving Station" (PDF). NPS History.
- ↑ Wright Faladé, David (August 24, 2020). "The Sand Banks, 1861". The New Yorker. New York: Condé Nast.
- ↑ Kozak, Catherine (January 10, 2010). "Film to shine spotlight on black surfmen of Pea Island". The Virginian-Pilot. Retrieved September 1, 2020.
- ↑ Johnson, Holly (January 31, 2017). "Outstanding International Books: Presenting the 2017 USBBY Selections". School Library Journal. Retrieved September 1, 2020.
- ↑ "David Wright". Fulbright Scholar Program. Retrieved September 1, 2020.
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