David Wright
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Poet, born 1920
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, David John Murray Wright was an author and "an acclaimed South African-born poet". Biography Wright was born in Johannesburg, South Africa 23 February 1920 of normal hearing. When he was 7 years old he contracted scarlet fever and was deafened as a result of the disease. He immigrated to England at the age of 14, where he was enrolled in the Northampton School for the Deaf. He studied at Oriel College, Oxford, and graduated in 1942.
