David Wright (writer)
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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, but lives in Texas.[2]
He has also published under the name "David Wright Faladé," in honor of his biological father, Max Faladé, from Porto-Novo in Benin, the grandson of Béhanzin, the last King of Dahomey.[3]
Works
Books
- The New Internationals, Grove Press, January, 2025.[4]
- Black Cloud Rising, Atlantic Monthly Press, February 2022.[5][6]
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Short stories
- "The Sand Banks, 1861" (2020)[15]
Documentary film
- Rescue Men: The Story of the Pea Island Lifesavers (2010).[16]
Television journalism
- "The Pea Island Story", co-written and co-produced with Stephanie Frederic and David Zoby. Aired on BET Tonight, February 1999.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
Awards
- 2017: International Board on Books for Young People, grades 9–12, Away Running[17]
- 2011: Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil.[18]
- 2009: North Carolina Humanities Council, Large Grant, for production of Rescue Men: The Story of the Pea Island Lifesavers.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
- 2005: Dobie-Paisano Fellowship, University of Texas and the Texas Institute of Letters.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
- 2004: Tennessee Williams Scholar, Sewanee Writers’ Conference.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
- 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".Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
- 1997–1998: Chancellor’s Minority Postdoctoral Fellowship, Afro-American Studies and Research Program, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
- 1994: Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Award, the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation, Fairfax, VA.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
- 1993: Paul Cuffe Memorial Fellowship, Munson Institute of American Maritime Studies, Mystic, Connecticut.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
References
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External links
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- African-American Jews
- African-American novelists
- American people of Beninese descent
- American people of French-Jewish descent
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign faculty
- Harvard Fellows
- Living people
- University of Massachusetts Amherst MFA Program for Poets & Writers alumni
- Carleton College alumni
- Frank C. Munson Institute of American Maritime History alumni
- People from Borger, Texas
- 21st-century American novelists
- 21st-century African-American writers
- 20th-century African-American writers