Leonard M. Wright Jr. is one of America's most respected writers on trout fishing and upland bird shooting. His books include The Ways of Trout, Fly-Fishing Heresies, and Fishing the Dry Fly as a Living Insect, and his astute, often controversial articles have appeared in such magazines as Field & Stream, Esquire, The American Sportsman, Fly Fisherman, and The New York Times Magazine. He resides in Claryville, New York.