Kit Wright FRSL (born 17 June 1944) is an English writer who is the author of more than twenty-five books, for both adults and children,[1] and the winner of awards including an Arts Council Writers' Award, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, the Hawthornden Prize, the Alice Hunt Bartlett Prize and the Heinemann Award.
After a scholarship to Oxford University, he worked as a lecturer at Brock University, St Catherine's, in Canada, then returned to England and a position in the Poetry Society.
Educated at Oxford University, Wright moved to Canada to work as a lecturer.
[2] In 1970, he returned to London to work as an Education Officer for the Poetry Society until 1975.
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (FRSL) in 1997.