Alex Wright is an American writer and
Information Architect. He is the author of two books:
Cataloging the World: Paul Otlet and the Birth of the Information Age (2014) and
Glut: Mastering Information Through the Ages (2007). Wright is also a professor at the
School of Visual Arts in New York City and head of
User Experience research at
Etsy.
Many of his writings examine the current state of information transmission and organization through a historical, scientific, or cultural context.
Biography
Wright grew up in
Richmond, Virginia
(Thus do we reach the stars)
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and
Sussex, England. In high school, he has been described as "A long-haired nerd who spent lots of time in the computer lab but somehow never managed to get much past Basic."
He has a B.A. in English Literature from
Brown University
Brown University is a private research university in Providence, Rhode Island. Brown is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, founded in 1764 as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providenc ...
and a graduate degree in
Library and Information Science
Library and information science(s) or studies (LIS) is an interdisciplinary field of study that deals generally with organization, access, collection, and protection/regulation of information, whether in physical (e.g. art, legal proceedings, e ...
from
Simmons College. Throughout his career, he has been a frequent contributor to
The New York Times. Wright currently resides in
Brooklyn, New York with his wife and two sons.
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Living people
Information architects
American non-fiction writers
Year of birth missing (living people)
Writers from Richmond, Virginia
School of Visual Arts faculty
Brown University alumni