Derek Webber was born in the UK in 1945, and moved to the USA in 1993. He considers himself a young American, having become a US citizen in 2000. Although the author of maybe a hundred technical papers, and a co-author of four books with a space-related theme, "The Wright Stuff" is his first book as sole-author. He is a former satellite engineer, and has spent most of his professional life in the commercial space business (no, that does not mean real-estate)and has had a lot of fun buying and selling satellites and launch vehicles (rockets!). But it is human space flight, and ultimately space tourism, which has become his great passion. And hopefully the book conveys some of that to his readers.