Aneurin Wright

Aneurin (Nye) Wright was born in rural Idaho, USA, the son of a West Texan architect and a London writer. He earned a BA in English Literature from Yale and a BFA in Illustration and Communication Design from the Pratt Institute. He was the lead animator for the 'Short History of the United States' cartoon sequence in Michael Moore's Academy Award-winning documentary Bowling for Columbine.

Between 2012 and 2015 Wright drew a weekly comic strip for the Waterstone's Blog called Sprout's Bookclub. In it, the great authors of the past travel through a wormhole in space and time to the present to pitch themselves and their work directly to the readership of the future: a five-month-old baby girl named Sprout.

His graphic memoir Things to Do in a Retirement Home Trailer Park was published to critical acclaim by Myriad in 2012 in the UK and by Penn State University Press in the US in 2015. Wright lives in Brighton, England with his graphic designer wife, Lyndsay, daughter Aurelia -- AKA Sprout -- and son Bixby.