John Charles Wright (born 1961) is a retired attorney, newspaperman and newspaper editor. He is currently an author of science fiction novels.

In 1987, he graduated from the College and William and Mary's Law School (going from the third oldest to the second oldest school in continuous use in the United States), and was admitted to the practice of law in three jurisdictions (New York, May 1989; Maryland December 1990; DC January 1994). His law practice was unsuccessful enough to drive him into bankruptcy soon thereafter. His stint as a newspaperman for the St. Mary's Today was more rewarding spiritually, but, alas, also a failure financially. He presently works (successfully) as a writer in Virginia, where he lives in fairy-tale-like happiness with his wife, the authoress L. Jagi Lamplighter (Annapolis, class of 1985), and their three children.

Publications

  • Farthest Man from Earth, (novella) Asimov's Science Fiction Vol. 19 # 4 & 5, No.229-230, April 1995.
  • Guest Law, (novella) Asimov's Science Fiction Vol. 21 # 6, No.258, June 1997.
  • Year's Best SF 3, ed. David G. Hartwell, HarperPrism, 1998.
  • Not Born a Man, (short story) Aberrations #24, October 1994.
  • Forgotten Causes, (short story) Absolute Magnitude #16, Summer 2001.
  • Awake in the Night (novella) appearing in William Hope Hodgson's Night Lands: Eternal Love, edited by Andy W. Robertson, Wildside Press (December 2003).
  • Last of All Suns (novella) electronic publication.

Novels