Wright grew up in Waterford, Michigan, until his family moved to Grayling after his 4th Grade year of school. He lived for a short time in Houghton Lake before moving to Petoskey for six years, then to a little cabin in the woods outside of Cheboygan before moving to Topinabee (about 25 miles directly south of the Mackinac Bridge) with his wife and three dogs named "Scooby-Boo" "Lily Munster" and "Spooky Dude", He is also huge fans of country stars like George Strait, Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Tim Mcgraw, Rodney Atkins and Meatloaf. He also has been known as the most popular author for the youth in the last five years.

In 2007, Wright became involved in exposing a case of animal cruelty, and documented the case on a website called "Thor's Warriors", a website that shows hidden animal abuse and cruelty cases to the public.

Rand owns his own bookstore, Chillermania!, located in Indian River, Michigan, which sells anything related to his American Chillers, or his Michigan Chillers books. The store sells the books, t-shirts, hats, autographs, and Rand's other works. Rand is not always at the store, but he has been frequently known to drop by...

Wright has opted to self-publish, with he and his wife originally driving to gas stations, restaurants, gift shops, and hotels to sell the books. In 2003, the author stated that they had sold over one million copies of the books.

Wright uses two pseudonyms when writing ... Johnathan Rand for the children's books, and Christopher Knight for the books aimed at adults.

When asked out of the books he had written what his favorite one was, Wright said it was "Dinosaurs Destroy Detroit", but that he liked each one in a unique way.