Yogananda’s Young Secretary
Clarence Richard Wright (9 Dec. 1911 – 9 Jan. 2002) is well-known to devotees of Yogananda as the young and faithful secretary who accompanied him on his visit to India in 1935/36.
“At Ranchi, Calcutta, Serampore, everywhere he went, my secretary, who has a vivid gift of description, hauled out his travel diary to record his adventures,” Yogananda writes in his Autobiography of a Yogi. Several extracts from his diary have been inserted in the Autobiography.
Richard’s sister is Daya Mata.