Background
Wright was born in Midland, Ontario, to Laverne and Laura (née Thomas).
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You read about these things in the newspapers, Daniel Fielding thought when Denise did not return to the car. A moment of brief pity for those whose ordinary lives are shattered by a sniper’s bullet, a burning house, a kidnapped child. He had often wondered how people moved past these tragedies.Some, he supposed, never did. From Adultery DANIEL FIELDING, a quiet, middle-aged editor at a Toronto book-publishing house, has it all. An attractive wife, a charming daughter who excels at her private school, and a desirable house in a nice neighbourhood all add up to a successful life. If his job is becoming a little tedious and his boss a little too supercilious, then so be it. But when Fielding and a pretty, very assertive young colleague travel together to the Frankfurt Book Fair, what begins as an indiscretion unexpectedly explodes into abduction and murder. Now Fielding must navigate the devastation of the lives left behind. Adultery is a subtle, powerful story of a man’s fall from grace and his search for forgiveness, even in the unlikeliest of places.
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With the publication of Clara Callan and its sweep of the awards and bestseller lists, Richard B. Wright has become a household name. But as many fiction lovers are just now discovering, Wright has been dazzling critics, writers, and his loyal audience for years, with stories that grab hold and don’t let go. Final Things is one such book, a story as shockingly timely now as it was when it was first published in 1980. Jonathan Farris, 12, leaves his father’s apartment one Saturday afternoon and never returns. The next day police discover that Jonathan was brutally raped and murdered, his trip to the convenience store cut short by an unknown killer. Charlie, Jonathan’s father, already on a down-ward slide from a nasty divorce, a stalled writing career, and a creeping alcohol addiction, struggles to cope with the most devastating loss a parent can ever endure. When an anonymous phone call offers him information about his son’s killer, Charlie is galvanized into action, channeling his grief, his guilt, and his rage into one of the most powerful confrontations since James Dickey’s Deliverance.
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Wright was born in Midland, Ontario, to Laverne and Laura (née Thomas).
Wright graduated from Midland high school in 1956, and attended and graduated from Ryerson Polytechnic Institute in the area of Radio and television arts in 1959.
He worked briefly within local newspapers and radio stations as a copywriter before becoming an assistant editor for Macmillan Canada in 1960. Wright married Phyllis Wright (née Cotton) in 1966 and they have two sons, Christopher Stephen and Richard Andrew. During Wright"s time at Macmillan, he published his first book, a children"s book entitled Andrew Tolliver (later retitled One John A ).
Wright"s first full-length novel, The Weekend Manitoba, was written in eighteen months while staying at his wife"s family cottage in Quebec.
The novel became a critical success, winning praise for Wright"s versatility and ability to create believable female characters. In 1970, Wright returned to postsecondary at Trent University, graduating in 1972 with a Bachelor of Arts in English.
In 1976, Wright obtained a position at Ridley College, a private school, teaching English until his retirement. Although nominated for several literary awards, it wasn"t until 2001 that Wright gained recognition for his award-winning novel, Clara Callan, which led to the republication of many of his earlier works.
Wright"s published works deal with the lives of ordinary people, with a profound balance of depth and sensitivity.
Wright has been praised as an author who creates believable characters with a voice that must be heard. The reviewer in The Montreal Gazette is just one of many who have praised Wright’s work, stating that his most recent book, Mr.Shakespeare’s Bastard, is “A masterful novel … confirms his ability to evoke an authentically female sensibility.” The novel has continued to gain recognition and was described by The Winnipeg Free Press as a novel that "Draws us swiftly through the pages.." Wright provides a narrative of pure life to his settings and character backgrounds that have continued to give him wide recognition as a Canadian novelist. His novels have been, and continue to be, published all around the world.
He currently resides in Saint Catharines, Ontario, where he writes full-time and enjoys the recreational pastimes of walking, reading and music
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