Biography
Wright was born in Philadelphia, the son of William C. Wright Sr. and Josephine Hartshorne Wright. He graduated at the Germantown Friends School and earned his B.A. at Yale University. In the U.S. Army, he completed training in Chinese at the Language School in Monterey, California and served as an Army translator and interpreter in Japan, Okinawa and on the USS Oriskany.
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