About T. M. Wright
Terrance "Terry" Michael Wright (September 9, 1947 – October 31, 2015) was an American author best known as a writer of horror fiction, speculative fiction, and poetry. == Life == Terrance Michael Wright was born September 9, 1947 in Syracuse, New York. His father was a traveling salesman and his mother a secretary and later a teacher. He was one of six children. His twin brother, T. Lucien Wright, was also an author in the dark fantasy genre. T.M. Wright's first publication was a poem in the Newark Courier-Gazette in 1961. His first book was a 1968 non-fiction study on unidentified flying objects, entitled The Intelligent Man's Guide to Flying Saucers (1968; not connected to Isaac Asimov's The Intelligent Man's Guide to series). It was published by AS Barnes's imprint in New Jersey. In one of his later interviews, Wright defined his own style as "existential horror, existential dark fantasy." He also claimed he'd rather "be remembered as a poet than a novelist." An accomplished artist, Wright made the art for some editions of his own books, such as that in his anthology Bone Soup (2010). == Work == Wright started his fiction career with the novel Strange Seed, published in hardcover in 1978 and in paperback in 1980.
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