David Wright (writer)
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
- Away Running, a novel (Orca Book Publishers, 2016). www.awayrunning.com
- Fire on the Beach: Recovering the Lost Story of Richard Etheridge and the Pea Island Lifesavers (Charles Scribner's Sons|Scribner, 2001; Oxford University Press paper, 2002). www.fireonbeach.com
Documentary film
- Rescue Men: The Story of the Pea Island Lifesavers (2010). www.rescuemenfilm.com
Other publications
- The Village Voice[citation needed]
- Callaloo[citation needed]
- Gastronomica[citation needed]
- Paste Magazine[citation needed]
- African American Review[citation needed]
- The CLA Journal[citation needed]
- The Journal of Negro History[citation needed]
- Naval History[citation needed]
- North Dakota Quarterly[citation needed]
- Reflections in Ink[citation needed]
- Painted Bride Quarterly[citation needed]
- Shenandoah[citation needed]
- Sixty-four[citation needed]
- The Southern Review[citation needed]
- Virginia English Bulletin[citation needed]
Television journalism
"The Pea Island Story," co-written and co-produced with Stephanie Frederic and David Zoby. Aired on BET Tonight, Feb. 1999.[citation needed]
Awards
- 2011: J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholar, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil.[citation needed]
- 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]
- 2000: National Association of Black Journalists, Salute to Excellence Award, First Prize for a Television Feature News-Story, "The Pea Island Story".[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, CT.[citation needed]
External links
- Author's page
- Author's page, University of Illinois
- Away Running, a novel
- Fire on the Beach: Recovering the Lost Story of Richard Etheridge and the Pea Island Lifesavers, with photographs
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