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\"\"<\/a>Camron Wright<\/strong>\u00a0was born and raised in Salt Lake City, Utah. He has a master\u2019s degree in Writing and Public Relations from Westminster College.<\/p>\n

He has owned several successful retail stores in addition to working with his wife in the fashion industry, designing for the McCall Pattern Company in New York.<\/p>\n

Camron began writing to get out of attending MBA school at the time, and it proved the better decision. His first book,\u00a0Letters for Emily<\/em>, was a\u00a0Readers Choice<\/em>\u00a0Award winner, as well as a selection of the\u00a0Doubleday Book Club<\/em>\u00a0and the\u00a0Literary Guild<\/em>.\u00a0Letters for Emily<\/em>\u00a0has been published in North America, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Germany, Korea, the Netherlands, and China.<\/p>\n

His next book,\u00a0The Rent Collector<\/em>, won Best Novel of the Year from the Whitney Awards and was a nominee for the prestigious\u00a0International DUBLIN Literary Award<\/em>.\u00a0The Orphan Keeper<\/em>\u00a0won 2016 Book of the Year, Gold accolades in Multicultural Fiction from\u00a0Foreword Reviews<\/em>, and was winner of Best General Fiction from the Whitney Awards.<\/p>\n

Camron lives with his wife, Alicyn, just south of Salt Lake City at the base of the Wasatch Mountains. He is the proud father of four children, all girls but three.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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