Family
Wright married Valencia Barnes Meadman, a modern-dance teacher of Russian Jewish ancestry, in 1939, but the two divorced a year later. In 1941, he married Ellen Poplar (1912-2004), the daughter of immigrants of Polish Jewish ancestry and a Communist Party organizer in Brooklyn. They had two daughters: Julia in 1942 and Rachel in 1949.
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