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

Fire on the Beach: Recovering the Lost Story of Richard Etheridge and the Pea Island Lifesavers (Scribner, July 2001).

Other publications

• Shenandoah
• Sixty-four
• The Southern Review
• Painted Bride Quarterly'
• African American Review
• North Dakota Quarterly Review
• Reflections in Ink
• Virginia English Bulletin
• Naval History
• The CLA Journal
• The Journal of Negro History

Television journalism

"The Pea Island Story," Co-written and co-produced with Stephanie Frederic and David Zoby. Aired on "BET Tonight," Black Entertainment Television, February 1999.

Awards

• National Association of Black Journalists, Salute to Excellence Award, First

Prize for a Television Feature News-Story, August 2000. "The Pea Island Story."

• 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, 1999. "The Civil Rights Movement: History and Consequences."

• Chancellor’s Minority Postdoctoral Fellowship, Afro-American Studies and

Research Program, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1997-98.

• Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Award, the Zora Neale Hurston/ Richard

Wright Foundation, Fairfax, VA, 1994.

• Paul Cuffe Memorial Fellowship, Munson Institute of American Maritime Studies, Mystic, CT, 1993.

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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