Michael Wright attributes his first stirrings as an artist to his doodles in the margins of his notebook during his second grade math lessons.  Much later, after careers in advertising and set design for TV news, he had an epiphany. “What will my legacy to my children be?” he thought. “Some fish stick commercials and television news sets?” With that, the father of three wrote and illustrated his first kids’ book, Jake Stays Awake, which Screenland sold to Feiwel and Friends for publication in 2007.  Its sequel, Jake Starts School, released in October of 2008.

From his home in Southern California, Michael is putting the finishing touches on his third book for Feiwel, Jake Goes Peanuts slated for spring 2010.