Richard Wright
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- Lawd Today (Masterplots II: African American Literature, Revised Edition)
- The Long Dream (Masterplots II: African American Literature, Revised Edition)
- Native Son (Masterplots II: African American Literature, Revised Edition)
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- Black Boy (Identities & Issues in Literature)
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- Bright and Morning Star (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
- The Man Who Lived Underground (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
- The Man Who Was Almost a Man (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
- Black Boy (Masterplots II: Nonfiction Series)
- Black Boy (Magill Book Reviews)
- Native Son (Magill Book Reviews)
- Black Boy (Masterplots, Fourth Edition)
- Native Son (Masterplots, Fourth Edition)
- African American Long Fiction (Critical Survey of Long Fiction, Fourth Edition)
- African American Short Fiction (Critical Survey of Short Fiction, Second Revised Edition)
- Theory of Short Fiction (Critical Survey of Short Fiction, Second Revised Edition)
- Native Son (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
- Origins and Development of the Novel, 1890-1980 (Critical Survey of Long Fiction, Fourth Edition)
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- Author: Richard Wright
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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...
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