Sean Wright was born in Peterborough, England, in 1959. He attended the St.Peter's Primary School and the Queen's Secondary School in Wisbech. When he left he spent a year at the Isle College, studying print and design. He learned how to take photographs, process film, compose type, design layouts, tinkered in the repro room, messed about with the litho printing machines and generally learned a great deal about 'the old-fashioned' printing trade. This is where his great love of books - both written and illustrated began.

Back in 1976, he went to London to audition for a band called The Automatics, and met up with Steve Lillywhite, producer of Ultravox, Status Quo, and U2. Lillywhite was concerned that a 16 year-old, Sean, was 'too young to be alone in London. Life here is full of strange situations,' he said. Inspired, two years later Sean released a power pop single, 'Strange Situation,' on the Ellie Jay Record label, London, and has been recently learned that this limited edition is now sought after by Amsterdam Record Fair collectors.

All of Jesse Jameson and the Golden Glow was read cover to cover - non-stop for five hours - on the BBC Radio's Big Read-a-thon and streamed live on the internet back in May 2003. The book was featured on CBBC Xchange programme in October 2003. In July 2004 the Book and Magazine Collector publication named Sean Wright as one of fifteen of the most collectable modern children's author's alive today, along with JK Rowling, Philip Pullman, and GP Taylor. Leading figures in the publishing world are calling the series 'a modern classic.' GP Taylor, author of the huge fantasy best-seller, Shadowmancer, which was Waterstone's Book of 2003 and hit the #1 of the New York Times list in June 2004, has recently read Jesse Jameson. He said that Jesse's adventures were 'Fantastic books ... highly recommended and very good reads.' Sean is a member of the British Fantasy Society.