Author's Bio
Author Janet Wright was born in Cincinnati, Ohio the first of three daughters. Due to the tragic death of her father, she grew up in a household of all women, an experience in interesting juxtaposition to the one she would later have as the only female in a house of five males. In Cincinnati, Ms. Wright (then Ms. Bayer) began her higher education at the University of Cincinnati, studying business administration, which she later changed to a major in English Literature. Janet remained in Cincinnati until she married Dr. James J. Wright of Indiana. The couple spent the first two years of their marriage in Saigon, Vietnam, where Dr. Wright served in the army as Medical Director of the United States Dispensary. Ms. Wright became assistant to the director of Pan American World Airlines for Southeast Asia. While in this position, she and her husband had the opportunity to travel around the world and experience many fascinating cultures. They also fostered a war orphan, who is now residing in Missouri, the proud mother of two children of her own. Upon returning to the states, Dr. Wright became Medical Director of the Community Mental Health Center in Indianapolis, Indiana. For the next seventeen years, Janet oversaw the upbringing of the couple’s four sons, finished her graduate work in English Literature, did volunteer work tutoring in local schools and held positions of leadership in parent organizations. Eager to put into practice all she had learned about academia, Ms. Wright accepted a position teaching English literature to upper school students at Park Tudor Preparatory School in Indianapolis. She held this position for eighteen years. Ms. Wright resides in Indianapolis, where she continues to relate to widows and their challenges as well as pursue her interests in reading, traveling, theatre, music and genealogy.
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Janet's "Across Indiana" Interview
WFYI (PBS)