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Peter Wright (born on August 9, 1916 in Chesterfield, Derbyshire, United Kingdom - died April 27, 1995 in Tasmania, Australia) was a former MI5 counterintelligence officer noted for writing the controversial book Spycatcher (ISBN 0670820555), which was part memoir, part exposé of what Wright claimed to be serious institutional failings in MI5.
Peter Wright was the son of Maurice Wright, who was the Marconi Company's director of research, and one of the founders of signals intelligence during World War I.
However Wright's most controversial claims concerned a later rôle in pursuing what he believed to be a Soviet mole in MI5, and came to conclude was his own boss, Sir Roger Hollis.
Richard Wright's 12 Million Black Voices, first published in 1941, is an impassioned essay on the African-American experience: the highs and lows, the triumph and the tragedy, from slavery to Emancipation and sharecropping, to the great Northern migration and life in the urban ghetto.
Wright's prose is accompanied by classic Depression-era photos from the Farm Security Administration, flawlessly selected by Edwin Rosskam and including the works of the usual FSA heavyweights--Jack Delano, Arthur Rothstein, Walker Evans, et al.
Wright is startled by the casual and non-venomous behavior of northern whites that he encounters on the northbound train.
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