BRIEF BIOGRAPHY

  Gene Wright is an Emeritus Professor of  English and Emeritus Faculty Ombudsman at the University of North Texas in Denton. 

  He served in the U. S. Army, mostly in Korea in 1955-56. Later he taught Army aircraft maintenance in the Department of Academics at Fort Rucker, Alabama, and received a letter of commendation for exemplary service.

   As a professor, teaching Shakespeare and literature in the honors program, he has won many awards for teaching; and his books and articles on Renaissance literature are often cited. His highly acclaimed first three novels, Run, Run As Fast As You Can (2001), Nobody Knows His Name (2003), The Painful Warrior (2005) introduced Sheriff Jerry Valdez to readers and established Wright as a fiction writer with broad appeal.

  His fourth novel, The Accidental Warrior (2005), follows a Texas rancher, Paul Hunter, and his young family on a trip to Poland in 1939, where they are entangled in the Nazi barbarism.

    Gene's fifth novel, Patriots and Statesmen (2008) returns to Kendall County, Texas, to follow Jerry Valdez as he must deal with lost boys, a callous murder, a gaggle of armed patriot wannabes, and some intrusive federal agents. Early readers find Patriots and Statesmen to be Wright's best yet.

     The sixth novel, published in early 2010, Pirates, Preachers, and Poteen Makers: A Jerry Valdez Novel takes the Texas sheriff to the Caribbean and Colombia to search for the son of an old friend and three of his young companions who are missing on a yacht trip to Jamaica.

   Gene Wright has for many years hunted and wandered the Hill Country of Texas, about which he writes. Wright lives with his wife of many years near Denton, Texas.