Wide-ranging essays in which Wright's biographer probes the career, ideology, complex life, and achievements of America's premier black writer. "A major contrib

The haiku of acclaimed novelist Richard Wright, written at the end of his...

As boy in the segregated South, author Richard Wright was determined to borrow books from the public library. His story illustrates the power of determination i

Richard Wright was one of the most influential and complex African American writers of the twentieth century. Best known as the trailblazing, bestselling author

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