Richard Wright

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(*1908 – †1960)

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en / English :

Richard Wright. American author. · Biography

fr / Français :

Richard Wright. Écrivain américain. · Biographie

Works

English

Drama

• Native Son: The Biography of a Young American with Paul Green (New York: Harper, 1941)

Fiction

• Uncle Tom's Children (New York: Harper, 1938)
• "The Man Who Was Almost a Man" (New York: Harper, 1939)
• Native Son (New York: Harper, 1940)
• The Outsider (New York: Harper, 1953)
• Savage Holiday (New York: Avon, 1954)
• The Long Dream (Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1958)
• Eight Men (Cleveland and New York: World, 1961)
• Lawd Today (New York: Walker, 1963)
• Rite of Passage (New York: Harper Collins, 1994)
• A Father's Law (London: Harper Perennial, 2008)

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 ; facsimile)
• 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, 1975)

Essays

• The Ethics Of Living Jim Crow: An Autobiographical Sketch (1937)
• Introduction to Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City (1945)
• I Choose Exile (1951)
• White Man, Listen! (Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1957)
• Blueprint for Negro Literature (New York City, New York) (1937)

Poetry

• Haiku: This Other World

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