David McKee Wright

David McKee Wright (6 August 1869 – 5 February 1928) was an Irish-born poet and journalist, active in New Zealand and Australia.

Early life Wright was born at Ballynaskeagh, County Down, Ireland, the second son of Rev. William Wright, D.D. (1837–1899), a Congregational missionary working in Damascus, scholar and author, and his wife Ann (d.1877), née McKee, daughter of the Rev. David McKee, an educationist and author. Wright was educated at the local Glascar School and then from 1876 in England at Mr Pope's School and the Crystal Palace School of Engineering, London. In 1897 Wright was awarded a Stuart prize for poetry. Station Ballads and Other Verses (1897) New Zealand Chimes (1900) Wisps of Tussock: New Zealand Rhymes (1900) An Irish Heart (1918) The Station Ballads and Other Verses (1945)

Fiction Luta of Lutetia (1930) - romance, with Zora Cross The Little Girl Who Didn't Live Next Door (1930) - children's