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Ronald Wright was born on 1948 in London, United Kingdom, is a Canadian author (born 1948). Discover Ronald Wright's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 76 years old?

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Occupation Writer, historian, novelist
Age 76 years old
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Born 1948
Birthday 1948
Birthplace London, United Kingdom
Nationality United Kingdom

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1520

His book The Gold Eaters was a novel set during the Spanish invasion of the Inca Empire in the 1520s–1540s, was published in 2015.

1948

Ronald Wright (born 1948, London, England) is a Canadian author who has written books of travel, history and fiction.

His nonfiction includes the bestseller Stolen Continents, winner of the Gordon Montador Award and chosen as a book of the year by The Independent and the Sunday Times.

1992

His 1992 non-fiction book Stolen Continents was awarded the 1993 Gordon Montador Award from the Writers' Trust of Canada and his 1997 novel A Scientific Romance, about a museum curator who travels into the future and investigates the fate of the human race, won the David Higham Prize for Fiction for first-time novelists.

1996

He studied archaeology at Cambridge University and later at the University of Calgary, where he was awarded an honorary doctorate in 1996.

Wright has a background in archaeology, history, linguistics, anthropology and comparative culture.

He has written both fiction and non-fiction books dealing with anthropology and civilizations.

1997

His first novel, A Scientific Romance, won the 1997 David Higham Prize for Fiction and was chosen a book of the year by the Globe and Mail, the Sunday Times, and the New York Times.

2000

Wright traces the origins of the ideas behind A Short History of Progress to the material he studied while writing A Scientific Romance and his 2000 essay for The Globe and Mail titled "Civilization is a Pyramid Scheme" about the fall of the ninth-century Mayan civilization.

2001

The novel, Henderson's Spear, published in 2001, was about a jailed filmmaker piecing together her family history in Polynesia.

Wright is a contributor to the Times Literary Supplement, and has written and presented documentaries for radio and television on both sides of the Atlantic.

2004

Wright was selected to give the 2004 Massey Lectures.

His contribution, A Short History of Progress, looks at the modern human predicament in light of the 10,000-year experiment with civilization.

In it he concludes that human civilization, to survive, would need to become environmentally sustainable, with specific reference to global warming and climate change.

His second book What is America?: A Short History of the New World Order continues the thread begun in A Short History of Progress by examining what Wright calls "the Columbian Age" and consequently the nature and historical origins of modern American imperium.

In 2004, Wright moved from Ontario to one of the Gulf Islands in British Columbia.