Jonathan B. Wight is associate professor of economics and international studies at the University of Richmond, Virginia. His youth was spent dodging terrorists and learning about life and hardships during in 12 years in Africa and Latin America. After graduating magna cum laude from Duke University, he spent a year in service with the Jesuit Volunteer Corps before entering graduate school, where he became a Danforth Fellow at Vanderbilt University.  He joined the University of Richmond in 1982.  He won the University of Richmond's Distinguished Teaching Award in 2002.

He is the author of numerous journal articles, and the co-author (with J.L. Fiedler), of a book on the mind-body connection in medical economics, The Medical Offset Effect and Public Health Policy (Praeger, 1989). He has consulted for the World Bank, the InterAmerican Development Bank, and others. This is his first book of fiction.

Contact Information

To see a curriculum vita, go to the academic Website:  http://oncampus.richmond.edu/~jwight

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