Carousel in the Congo (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781453725115)

Jack Wright was born in Mississippi in 1928 to Mattie and Bennie Wright. His father died when he was only two. Jack left home at the age of fourteen and went to work to help support his large family. He joined the army at an early age and served his country for ten years. His services in the Army Combat Engineers took him to Germany, Korea and Trieste. He received a battlefield commission while serving in Korea. Upon leaving the military, he went to work supervising commercial construction jobs and raising a family. He retired at the age of sixty-three. He made his home on a very old homestead on a hill in his beloved State of Mississippi. Jack wrote his first book at the age of twenty-two. At the age of eighty-two, he is still writing.