Author

Craig Wright

Henry L. and Lucy G. Moses Professor of Music Emeritus at Yale University and Guggenheim Fellow

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Craig Wright's most recent book, The Hidden Habits of Genius, to appear in October 2020, is the outgrowth of his popular Yale University course, "Exploring the Nature of Genius." It represents a multi-decade study of geniuses throughout history (Einstein, Curie, Mozart, Bezos, Jobs, Picasso, Ben Franklin, and Lady Gaga among them) as well as personal observations gleaned from watching geniuses in action, at Harvard, Yale, and elsewhere. Each chapter identifies one or more enablers of genius and concludes with suggestions as to how such agents can be incorporated into everyday life.

Craig Wright is a graduate of the Eastman School of Music, holds an M.A. and Ph.D from Harvard, and taught at Yale for forty-four years where, as the Moses Professor of Music Emeritus, he continues to teach "the genius course" online each summer. Wright has been the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, an honorary doctorate of humane letters of the University of Chicago, and in 2011 was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Born1944 · United States

Notable works The Hidden Habits of GeniusListening to Western MusicMusic and the Mind

HonoursGuggenheim Fellow; Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences; DeVane Medal for Excellence in Teaching and Scholarship, Yale (2018); Sewall Prize for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, Yale (2016); Honorary Doctorate of Human Letters, University of Chicago