David Wright

About The Author

David Wright is the author of Fire on the Beach, Away Running, Remedies in Equity, and Remedies Under the Trade Practice Act. He is also the screenwriter for the documentary Rescue Men. His work has earned numerous awards from the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation, the Texas Institute of Letters, and the National Endowment for the Humanities, among others. His writing has appeared in The Village Voice, The Kenyon Review, Newsday, Callaloo, The Massachusetts Review, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and elsewhere. He currently teaches at the University of Illinois.

Books by David Wright

Fire on the Beach

Recovering the Lost Story of Richard Etheridge and the Pea Island Lifesavers

By David Wright and David Zoby
From the Civil War to the turn of the century, this is the true-life story of the original coast guard, and one crew of African American heroes who fought storms and saved lives off North Carolina's outer banks.
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