Richard Wright, Daemonic Genius (Magill’s Literary Annual 1989)
At a glance:
- Author: Margaret Walker
- First Published: 1988
- Type of Work: Literary biography
- Time of Work: 1908-1960
- Setting: Mississippi, Chicago, New York, and Paris
- Principal Characters: Richard Wright, Margaret Walker
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: 1950’s, African Americans, 1960’s, Racism, Blacks, Race, Twentieth century, Authors or writers, 1940’s, Friendship, Writing, 1910’s, 1920’s, 1930’s, Literary criticism
- Locales: New York, Paris, France, Chicago, IL, Mississippi
Margaret Walker, professor emeritus of English at Jackson State University and author of the best-selling novel Jubilee (1966) and the award-winning book of poetry For My People (1942), writes the life of Richard Wright from both a personal and a professional point of view. She brings not only her own black racial heritage to the task but also her youthful friendship with Wright and the mature judgment of her professional career as scholar and artist.
The biography divides Wright's life into five periods: the Southern childhood and early adolescence, the Chicago...
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