Richard Wright

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                                                Wright in a 1939 photograph by Carl Van Vechten

Wright in a 1939 photograph by Carl Van Vechten
BornRichard Nathaniel Wright
(1908-09-04)September 4, 1908
Plantation, Roxie, Mississippi, U.S.
DiedNovember 28, 1960(1960-11-28) (aged 52)
Paris, France
OccupationNovelist, poet, essayist, short story writer
NationalityAmerican, French
Period1938-60
GenreDrama, fiction, non-fiction, autobiography


Collections
Drama
Fiction
  • Uncle Tom's Children (New York: Harper, 1938) (tales)
  • The Man Who Was Almost a Man (New York: Harper, 1939) (short tale)
  • Native Son (New York: Harper, 1940) (novel)
  • The Man Who Lived Underground (1942) (short tale)
  • The Outsider (New York: Harper, 1953) (novel)
  • Savage Holiday (New York: Avon, 1954)(novel)
  • The Long Dream (Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1958) (novel)
  • Eight Men (Cleveland and New York: World, 1961) (tales)
  • Lawd Today (New York: Walker, 1963) (novel)
  • Rite of Passage (New York: Harper Collins, 1994) (short tale)
  • A Father's Law (London: Harper Perennial, 2008) (unfinished novel)
Non-fiction
  • How "Bigger" Was Born; Notes of a Native Son (New York: Harper, 1940)
  • 12 Million Black Voices: A Folk History of the Negro in the United States (New York: Viking, 1941)
  • Black Boy (New York: Harper, 1945)
  • Black Power (New York: Harper, 1954)
  • The Color Curtain (Cleveland and New York: World, 1956)
  • Pagan Spain (New York: Harper, 1957)
  • Letters to Joe C. Brown (Kent State University Libraries, 1968)
  • American Hunger (New York: Harper & Row, 1977)
  • Black Power: Three Books from Exile: "Black Power"; "The Color Curtain"; and "White Man, Listen!" (Harper Perennial, 2008)
Essays
Poetry
  • Haiku: This Other World (eds. Yoshinobu Hakutani and Robert L. Tener; Arcade, 1998, ISBN 0-385-72024-6)
    • re-issue (paperback): Haiku: The Last Poetry of Richard Wright (Arcade Publishing, 2012).

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