Fun Facts

  • Has played leading roles in West Side Story, Carousel, Oklahoma, and other musicals
  • His garden of close to an acre of perennials and shrubs that has been featured on many garden tours
  • Sings tenor in a choir
  • Has cooked his way through Julia Child’s Mastering the Art of French Cooking

Jess Wright, MD

Author

Jess Wright is Professor at the University of Louisville Medical School and an internationally recognized psychiatrist. The first author of a trilogy of critically acclaimed medical books on cognitive-behavior therapy, his research on therapy for depression has received multiple grant awards from the National Institutes of Health, and he has lectured widely in Europe, Asia, South America, and the United States. His debut novel, A Stream to Follow, is an award-winning account of a battlefield surgeon’s recovery from the psychological trauma of warfare.

Hiking the Alps in Chamonix, France

Book signing at Browseabout Books in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware

Fishing on Kodiak Island in Alaska

At the Olympic Peninsula in Washington State