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Richard Wright (Magill’s Choice: American Ethnic Writers)
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Richard Wright rose from abject poverty to become one of America’s foremost writers. His topics consistently focus on the freedom and self-governance of African Americans in texts before 1950. He chronicled his Southern experiences from 1908 to 1927 in Black Boy, and his Northern experiences from 1927 to 1937 in American Hunger. Wright met with success once he moved to New York City in 1937. He won a literary prize in 1938 that earned him a contract with a major publisher, which published Uncle Tom’s Children. A Guggenheim Fellowship in...
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American Hunger (Identities and Issues) -
Big Boy Leaves Home (Short Stories) -
Black Boy/American Hunger (African American Literature) -
Black Boy (Juvenile Literature) -
Black Boy (Masterplots Classics) -
Black Boy (Nonfiction) -
Black Boy (Character Profiles) -
Black Boy (Identities and Issues) -
Black Boy (Magill Book Reviews) -
Bright and Morning Star (Short Stories) -
Lawd Today (African American Literature) -
Lawd Today (American Fiction) -
Lawd Today (Character Profiles) -
Long Dream, The (African American Literature) -
Long Dream, The (American Fiction) -
Long Dream, The (Character Profiles) -
Man Who Lived Underground, The (Short Stories) -
Man Who Was Almost a Man, The (Short Stories) -
Native Son (African American Literature) -
Native Son (Masterplots Classics) -
Native Son (Character Profiles) -
Native Son (Literary Places) -
Native Son (Magill Book Reviews) -
Outsider, The (African American Literature) -
Outsider, The (American Fiction) -
Outsider, The (Character Profiles) -
African American Long Fiction (Topical Overview--Long Fiction) -
Origins and Development of the Novel, 1890-1980 (Topical Overview--Long Fiction) -
African American Short Fiction (Topical Overview--Short Fiction) -
Theory of Short Fiction (Topical Overview--Short Fiction)
