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Wright Thompson (born September 9, 1976) is a senior writer for ESPN.com and ESPN The Magazine. He formerly worked at The Kansas City Star and Times-Picayune in New Orleans. Thompson's topics have covered a wide range of sports issues.
Wright Thompson is a senior writer for ESPN and is executive producer of TrueSouth and co-executive producer of Backstory. He is the author of New York Times bestselling The Cost of These...
Wright Thompson travels back to his native Mississippi to examine the place where Emmett Till was murdered for his new book “The Barn.”
Walter Wright Thompson died before he could fulfill his dream of walking Augusta National during the Masters. In the spring of 2007, his son, Wright Thompson, took that walk for him.
“In this arresting, insightful book, Wright Thompson takes a deep dive into the historical record to guide us on a compelling, thousand-year international journey of power, greed, corruption and injustice, leading inevitably to the lynching of Emmett Till.”
Wright Thompson figures people out. He jimmies the lock to the furnaces inside the people he profiles and does an analysis of the fuel that fires their ambition. Whether it be Michael Jordan or Tiger Woods or Pat Riley or Urban Meyer, he strips the away the self-serving myths and fantasies to reveal his characters in full.
Wright Thompson is a senior writer for ESPN, contributing writer to the Atlantic, and the New York Times bestselling author of The Barn, Pappyland, and The Cost of These Dreams. He lives in Oxford, Mississippi with his family.
Wright Thompson. 4.33. 1,567 ratings158 reviews. The instant New York Times bestseller! From one of America's most beloved sportswriters and the bestselling author of Pappyland , a collection of true stories about the dream of greatness and its cost in the world of sports.
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Wright Thompson - The Cost of these Dreams. “Wright Thompson’s stories are so full of rich characters, bad actors, heroes, drama, suffering, courage, conflict, and vivid detail that I sometimes think he’s working my side of the street—the world of fiction.” - JOHN GRISHAM.