Tom Wright(1923-2002)
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Tom Wright (1923-2002) was a Scottish poet, dramatist, and television
writer, who served in World War II as a British Army corporal and on 3
September 1944 participated in the liberation of Brussels. He was then
captured by German soldiers in the Ardennes, and served as a POW at the
Munich Zoo, where he was assigned to transfer Lucy, the Elephant, to
Austria's Innsbruck Zoo because of the threat of the Allied bombing
campaign. After the war, he wrote poetry and made a living as a
stain-glass window maker for cathedrals. In 1963, at age 40, he earned
a Master of Arts in writing from Glasgow University. In 1965, he wrote
the one-man play "There Was a Man" written in honor of the Scottish
poet Robert Burns. In the 1980s, he wrote the play "Talk of the Devil"
which was adapted for film by Armac Films in 2002.
