His book The Gold Eaters was a novel set during the Spanish invasion of the Inca Empire in the 1520s–1540s, was published in 2015. Wright traces the origins of the ideas behind A Short History of Progress to the material he studied while writing A Scientific Romance and his 2000 essay for The Globe and Mail titled "Civilization is a Pyramid Scheme" about the fall of the ninth-century Mayan civilization. His second book What is America?: A Short History of the New World Order continues the thread begun in A Short History of Progress by examining what Wright calls "the Columbian Age" and consequently the nature and historical origins of modern American imperium. In it he concludes that human civilization, to survive, would need to become environmentally sustainable, with specific reference to global warming and climate change. His contribution, A Short History of Progress, looks at the modern human predicament in light of the 10,000-year experiment with civilization. Wright was selected to give the 2004 Massey Lectures.
He has written both fiction and non-fiction books dealing with anthropology and civilizations. Wright has a background in archaeology, history, linguistics, anthropology and comparative culture.
He studied archaeology at Cambridge University and later at the University of Calgary, where he was awarded an honorary doctorate in 1996. His first novel, A Scientific Romance, won the 1997 David Higham Prize for Fiction and was chosen a book of the year by the Globe and Mail, the Sunday Times, and the New York Times.
His nonfiction includes the bestseller Stolen Continents, winner of the Gordon Montador Award and chosen as a book of the year by The Independent and the Sunday Times. Ronald Wright (born 1948, London, England) is a Canadian author who has written books of travel, history and fiction.
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