Ronald Wright
Novelist and historian Ronald Wright is the award-winning author of ten books published in 16 languages and more than 40 countries. His first novel, A Scientific Romance, won the David Higham Prize for Fiction and was chosen a book of the year by The New York Times, The Globe and Mail, and the Sunday Times . A Short History of Progress, his CBC Massey Lectures, won the Libris Award for Non-Fiction Book of the Year and inspired Martin Scorsese's 2011 film Surviving Progress . Wright's other...See more
Novelist and historian Ronald Wright is the award-winning author of ten books published in 16 languages and more than 40 countries. His first novel, A Scientific Romance, won the David Higham Prize for Fiction and was chosen a book of the year by The New York Times, The Globe and Mail, and the Sunday Times . A Short History of Progress, his CBC Massey Lectures, won the Libris Award for Non-Fiction Book of the Year and inspired Martin Scorsese's 2011 film Surviving Progress . Wright's other books include Stolen Continents and Time Among the Maya. He lives on Canada's west coast. ... See less
