Craig Wright
Yale music professor and author
Craig Wright is a music historian and professor emeritus at Yale. He wrote The Hidden Habits of Genius, which grew out of his popular Yale course on genius.
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About Craig Wright
Craig Wright was born in 1944 in Fort Sill, Oklahoma, and specializes in music history. He studied at the Eastman School of Music and went on to earn his master's degree and doctorate at Harvard. He taught at Yale for forty-four years and is now professor emeritus of music there. The Hidden Habits of Genius grew out of his Yale course, Exploring the Nature of Genius. The book draws on many years of studying people such as Einstein, Curie, Mozart and Picasso, along with his own observations of gifted people at work. Each chapter names factors that help genius to flourish and offers ideas for bringing them into daily life. Wright has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and an honorary doctorate from the University of Chicago. In 2011 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters.