• Country: Canada
  • Born On: Sep 4, 2020
Novelist and historian RONALD WRIGHT is the award-winning author of ten books published in 16 languages and more than 40 countries. 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 first novel, A Scientific Romance, won Britain's 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. His acclaimed works Cut Stones and Crossroads, Time Among the Maya, and Stolen Continents are now available as Penguin Modern Classics. Online: www.ronaldwright.com