Wright Thompson

Wright Thompson is a senior writer for ESPN.com and ESPN The Magazine, with earlier newspaper work at The Kansas City Star and the Times-Picayune in New Orleans, and the reporting covers a wide range of sports issues. Book-length nonfiction includes The Barn, a narrative history that returns to the 1955 murder of Emmett Till and the Mississippi community where it happened. Thompson has also written the essay and journalism collections Pappyland and The Cost of These Dreams.