Richard B. Wright was born in 1937 in Midland, Ontario. He studied radio and television arts at the Ryerson Institute of Technology and worked as an editor for Macmillan Canada. Wright returned to school in 1970, earning a B.A. in English from Trent University and then taught at Ridley College. He retired in 2001 and now writes full-time.

Books by Richard B. Wright

	1965 Andrew Tolliver (re-released as One John A. Too Many (1984))
	1971 The Weekend Man
	1973 In the Middle of a Life
	1976 Farthing's Fortunes
	1980 Final Things
	1982 The Teacher's Daughter
	1984 Tourists
	1990 Sunset Manor
	1995 The Age of Longing A sixty-year-old man prepares to sell his mother's home after her death.
	2001 Clara Callan The Depression-era lives of Clara and her sister Nora are explored via letters and journal entries.
	2004 Adultery An editor has an affair with a young woman who then turns up dead.
	2007 October
	2010 Mr. Shakespeare's Bastard
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Awards

• Giller Prize
  • 1995 – The Age of Longing – Shortlisted
  • 2001 – Clara Callan – Winner

• Governor General's Literary Award: Fiction
  • 1995 – The Age of Longing – Shortlisted
  • 2001 – Clara Callan – Winner

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Added 15 November 2005.
Updated 07 January 2012.