Craig Wright studied at the Eastman School of Music from 1962 to 1966, and at Harvard University from 1966 and 1972, where he obtained an M.A.

[1] After a year teaching at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, he moved to Yale in 1973,[2] serving as the chair of the department of music from 1986 to 1992.

[3] He currently holds the title of the Henry L. and Lucy G. Moses Professor of Music Emeritus at Yale University.

More recently, Wright turned his attention to Mozart[2] and the study of genius generally, with the publication of his trade book The Hidden Habits of Genius (HarperCollins, 2020, at Amazon), which was an Amazon Book of the Year selection for the Nonfiction class.

[4] In 2004 he was awarded the honorary degree Doctor of Humane Letters from the University of Chicago and in 2010 was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.