Richard Wright

“Richard Nathaniel Wright (September 4, 1908 – November 28, 1960) was an American author of sometimes controversial novels, short stories, poems, and non-fiction. Much of his literature concerns racial themes, especially related to the plight of African Americans during the late 19th to mid-20th centuries, who suffered discrimination and violence in the South and the North. Literary critics believe his work helped change race relations in the United States in the mid-20th century.”

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Novels

• Uncle Tom’s Children (New York: Harper, 1938) (tales)
• The Man Who Was Almost a Man (New York: Harper, 1939) (short tale)
• Native Son (New York: Harper, 1940) (novel)
• The Outsider (New York: Harper, 1953) (novel)
• Savage Holiday (New York: Avon, 1954)(novel)
• The Long Dream (Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1958)(novel)
• Eight Men (Cleveland and New York: World, 1961) (tales)
• Lawd Today (New York: Walker, 1963) (novel)
• Rite of Passage (New York: Harper Collins, 1994) (short tale)
• A Father’s Law (London: Harper Perennial, 2008) (unfinished novel)

Non-Fiction

• How “Bigger” Was Born; Notes of a Native Son (New York: Harper, 1940)
• 12 Million Black Voices: A Folk History of the Negro in the United States (New York: Viking, 1941)
• Black Boy (New York: Harper, 1945)
• Black Power (New York: Harper, 1954)
• The Color Curtain (Cleveland and New York: World, 1956)
• Pagan Spain (New York: Harper, 1957)
• Letters to Joe C. Brown (Kent State University Libraries, 1968)
• American Hunger (New York: Harper & Row, 1977)
• Black Power: Three Books from Exile: “Black Power”; “The Color Curtain”; and “White Man, Listen!” (Harper Perennial, 2008)

Screenplays

• Native Son: The Biography of a Young American with Paul Green (New York: Harper, 1941)

Essays

• The Ethics Of Living Jim Crow: An Autobiographical Sketch (1937)
• Introduction to Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City (1945)
• I Choose Exile (1951)
• White Man, Listen! (Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1957)
• Blueprint for Negro Literature (New York City, New York) (1937)
• The God that Failed (contributor) (1949)

Poetry

• Haiku: This Other World (eds. Yoshinobu Hakutani and Robert L. Tener; Arcade, 1998