James Wright (poet)

James Arlington Wright (December 13, 1927 – March 25, 1980) was an American poet.
Life.
James Wright was born and spent his childhood in Martins Ferry, Ohio. His father worked in a glass factory, and his mother in a laundry. Neither parent had received more than an eighth grade education. Wright suffered a nervous breakdown in 1943, and he graduated a year late from high school, in 1946.<ref>