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Wright's son Franz Wright was also a poet; Franz won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 2004. Together, James and Franz are the only parent/child pair to have won a Pulitzer Prize in the same category. Wright was a lifelong smoker, and was diagnosed in late 1979 with cancer of the tongue. He died a few months later in Calvary Hospital in the Bronx.
James Wright (8 May 1716 – 20 November 1785) was an English jurist and colonial administrator who served as the last Royal governor of Georgia from 1760 till July 1782, with a brief exception in 1777 when the state was under rebel control.
James Wright (rugby) (1863–1932), rugby union footballer of the 1890s for England, and Bradford F.C. James Wright (speedway rider) (born 1986), British motorcycle speedway rider; Jim Wright (Australian footballer) (born 1949), Australian rules footballer (Geelong) James Earl Wright, a ring name of American professional wrestler Dale Veasey ...
James Gilbert E. Wright (March 25, 1874 – August 20, 1961) [1] [unreliable source] was a Scottish-born inventor, researcher and chemical engineer at General Electric who invented Silly Putty in 1943 while looking for a replacement for rubber. The invention of Nutty Putty, later renamed Silly Putty, happened accidentally.
John Franklin Knight AM (12 December 1927 – 27 November 2022), known professionally as Dr James Wright, was an Australian medical professional who was notable for his books, television and radio appearances, and regular newspaper and magazine columns. He was also sometimes nicknamed "the Merry Medic".
James Claude Wright Jr. (December 22, 1922 – May 6, 2015) was an American politician who served as the 48th speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1987 to 1989. He represented Texas' 12th congressional district as a Democrat from 1955 to 1989.
Brittany Wright is more than just a food stylist, she is an artist. The Seattle-based photographer's viral Instagram account, a visual diary of images noted for its organizational eye for color ...
[4] Robert Bly, a friend of Wright, wrote a counter-argument to this interpretation however, criticizing Gunn and accusing him of being unable to relate to the emotion expressed by the line. [5] Decades after the debate, David Mitchell theorized that the line was an optimistic one, writing: "...I hear him exhale it with a wry laugh".