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Richard Wright (Critical Survey of Short Fiction)
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Although Richard Wright is best known for his novel Native Son (1940), his nonfiction works, such as the two volumes of his autobiography Black Boy: A Record of Childhood and Youth (1945) and American Hunger (1977) along with books such as Twelve Million Black Voices (1941) and White Man, Listen! (1957), have proven to be of lasting interest. He developed a Marxist ideology while writing for the Communist Daily Worker, which was very influential on his early fiction, notably Native Son and Uncle Tom’s...
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Man Who Was Almost a Man, The (Short Stories) -
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Theory of Short Fiction (Topical Overview--Short Fiction)
