Dec 24, 2009
The Oxford Companion to English Literature | Wright, Richard
Wright, Richard
(
1908
–
60
),
black American writer, brought up in Memphis, and largely self-educated; he joined the Communist Party in the 1930s, but left in the 1940s, as he records in
The God that Failed
(
1950
). His best-known novels are the powerful and violent Native Son (
1940
) and The Outsider (
1953
), both of which deal with tragedy in the lives of black victims of poverty and politics.
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