His fourth book, People’s Lives: A Celebration of the Human Spirit, was published in the spring of 2001. The Texas Outback: Ranching on the Last Frontier was written by Bill and photographed by June Van Cleef. Included in the list of his published books are Fort Phantom Hill, A Bridge from Darkness to Light, Oman: Land of Diversity, Authentic Texas: People of the Big Bend, and The Whole Damn Cheese: Maggie Smith, now in its second printing. Across the Border and Back contains text by Marcia Daudistel and photographs by Bill Wright. In 2023, TCU Press published Celia Hill’s Headin’ West to a Remote Canyon Paradise, a journal by Celia Hill produced by Bill Wright and Marianne Wood. Another exciting story and Bill’s memoir are in the works!

Bill is a 2020 inductee to the Texas Institute of Letters, a distinguished honor society. In addition, Bill Wright helped bring to life Abilene: An American Centennial, an album of photographs that captures the hopes and joys of Abilene, Texas. Bill organized Historic Texas and Contemporary Texas, two books of photographs published by Texas Monthly Press, and The Union Guide to Texas Photographic Collections, published by the Texas A & M University Press. Bill’s photographs appear in numerous publications.

Wright’s photographs reside in many public and private collections, including the British Library in London, the National Museum of Art in Washington, DC, the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin, the Rockwell Museum in Corning, New York, the Princeton Collections of Western Americana in Princeton, New Jersey, the Amon Carter Museum in Ft. Worth, the Smithsonian Museum of American History in Washington, DC, the Southwest Writer’s Collection at San Marcos, and the Museum of New Mexico, and The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Bill’s petroleum energy career materials, literary documentation, and photographic archives reside at The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History at the University of Texas in Austin.

He is an instrument-rated, multi-engine qualified pilot, scuba diver, amateur radio operator (N5DCI), and member of the First Baptist Church of Abilene.

Bill Wright was married to photographer Alice Everett Wright, who died in 2018. Their daughter, Alison, is a civic volunteer and photographer in Georgetown, and their son, Mitchell Wright, is a landscape architect, urban planner, and photographer in Austin. Bill has six grandchildren, four great-grandchildren, and Brie, a goldendoodle.