Career
After his Army service, Wright was an editor at Holiday magazine when it was located in Philadelphia and published the likes of John Steinbeck, V.S. Pritchett and Lawrence Durrell. When Holiday became a casualty of the Curtis Publishing Company’s disintegration, Wright accepted a bizarre offer from composer Gian Carlo Menotti to become manager of Menotti’s Spoleto Festival, then held only in Italy. Wright’s job was to oversee the production of some ten events put on by the festival’s U.S. side. Each of his events was successful, but the overall festival was a financial disaster. Unnerved, Wright resigned.
After struggling for five years writing magazine articles, Wright accepted an offer to become the editor of Chicago Magazine, which he did from 1969 to 1971. Although the magazine was well received by both Chicagoans and advertisers, his tenure was cut short when the magazine was closed down for making jibes at the elder Mayor Richard Daley. Although offered editorial positions at three other publications, Wright turned to writing full time and has been doing so ever since, mostly authoring non-fiction books.
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