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Richard Wright

(Wright, Richard, 1908-1960)

Richard Nathaniel Wright (September 4, 1908 – November 28, 1960) was an American author of 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 suffering discrimination and violence. His best known works include the novella collection Uncle Tom's Children (1938), the novel Native Son (1940), and the memoir Black Boy (1945). Literary critics believe his work helped change race relations in the United States in the mid-20th century. (From Wikipedia)

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Fisher, Dorothy Canfield, 1879-1958

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Filed under: Wright, Richard, 1908-1960 -- Childhood and youth

Black Boy: A Record of Childhood and Youth (first edition, 1945), by Richard Wright, contrib. by Dorothy Canfield Fisher (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)

Filed under: Wright, Richard, 1908-1960 -- Criticism and interpretation

Apocalypse South: Judgment, Cataclysm, and Resistance in the Regional Imaginary (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2012), by Anthony Dyer Hoefer (PDF at Ohio State)

Filed under: Wright, Richard, 1908-1960 -- Travel -- Spain

Pagan Spain (c1957), by Richard Wright (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)

Books by Richard Wright:

Wright, Richard, 1908-1960: Black Boy: A Record of Childhood and Youth (first edition, 1945), contrib. by Dorothy Canfield Fisher (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
Wright, Richard, 1908-1960: Native Son (delisted 15 Feb 2021 due to demise of hosting site; still copyrighted in US)
Wright, Richard, 1908-1960: Pagan Spain (c1957) (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
Wright, Richard, 1908-1960: Savage Holiday (originally published 1954; this edition New York: Award Books; London: Tandem Books, 1969) (page images at HathiTrust)

Additional books by Richard Wright in the extended shelves:

Wright, Richard, 1908-1960: 12 million black voices; a folk history of the Negro in the United States. (Viking Press, 1941), also by Edwin Rosskam (page images at HathiTrust)

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