Richard Wright (1) (1908–1960)
Autor(a) de Native Son
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About the Author
Richard Wright was generally thought of as one of the most gifted contemporary African American writers until the rise of James Baldwin. "With Wright, the pain of being a Negro is basically economic---its sight is mainly in the pocket. With Baldwin, the pain suffuses the whole man. . . . If mostrar mais Baldwin's sights are higher than Wright's, it is in part because Wright helped to raise them" (Time). Wright was born on a plantation near Natchez, Mississippi, the son of a sharecropper. At the age of 15, he started to work in Memphis, then in Chicago, then "bummed all over the country," supporting himself by various odd jobs. His early writing was in the smaller magazines---first poetry, then prose. He won Story Story's $500 prize---for the best story written by a worker on the Writer's Project---with "Uncle Tom's Children" in 1938, his first important publication. He wrote Native Son (1940) in eight months, and it made his reputation. Based in part on the actual case of a young black murderer of a white woman, it was one of the first of the African American protest novels, violent and shocking in its scenes of cruelty, hunger, rape, murder, flight, and prison. Black Boy (1945) is the simple, vivid, and poignant story of Wright's early years in the South. It appeared at the beginning of a new postwar awareness of the evils of racial prejudice and did much to call attention to the plight of the African American. The Outsider (1953) is a novel based on Wright's own experience as a member of the Communist party, an affiliation he terminated in 1944. He remained politically inactive thereafter and from 1946 until his death made his principal residence in Paris. His nonfiction writings on problems of his race include Black Power: A Record of Reactions in a Land of Pathos (1954), about a visit to the Gold Coast, White Man, Listen (1957), and Twelve Million Black Voices: A Folk History of the Negro in the United States. (Bowker Author Biography) Richard Wright was born on a plantation near Natchez, Mississippi. His father left the family when Wright was only five years old, and he was raised first by his mother and then by a series of relatives. What little schooling he had ended with his graduation from ninth grade in Memphis, Tennessee. At age 15, he started to work in Memphis, and later worked in Chicago before traveling across the country supporting himself with odd jobs. When Wright finally returned to Chicago, he got a job with the federal Writer's Project, a government-supported arts program. He was quite successful, winning a $500 prize from a magazine for the best fiction written by a participant in that program. In Chicago, he was also introduced to leftist politics and became a member of the Communist Party. In 1937, Wright left Chicago for New York, where he became Harlem editor for the Communist national newspaper, The Daily Worker, and where he met future novelist, Ralph Ellison. Wright became a celebrated author with the publication of Native Son (1940), a novel he wrote in only eight months. Based on the actual case of a young black murderer of a white woman, it was one of the first of the modern black protest novels, violent and shocking in its sense of cruelty, hunger, rape, murder, flight, and prison. This novel brought Wright both fame and financial security. He followed it with his autobiography, Black Boy (1945), which was also successful. In 1942, Wright and his wife broke with the Communist Party, and in 1947, they moved to France, where Wright lived the rest of his life. His novel The Outsider (1953) is based on his experiences as a member of the Communist Party. Wright is regarded as a major modern American writer, one of the first black writers to reach a large white audience, and thereby raise the level of national awareness of the continuing problem of racism in America. In many respects Wright paved the way for all black writers who followed him. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Image credit: Richard Wright (1908-1960)
Photograph by Gordon Parks, May 1943
(Farm Security Administration-
Office of War Information Photograph Collection,
Library of Congress)
Photograph by Gordon Parks, May 1943
(Farm Security Administration-
Office of War Information Photograph Collection,
Library of Congress)
Obras por Richard Wright
Black Power: Three Books from Exile: Black Power; The Color Curtain; and White Man, Listen! (2008) 89 exemplares
Native Son: The Biography of a Young American: A Play in Eleven Scenes to Be Performed Without Intermission 8 exemplares
The Man Who Was Almost a Man 4 exemplares
Down by the Riverside 4 exemplares
How "Bigger" was born; the story of Native son, one of the most significant novels of our time 3 exemplares
Scoperte d'infanzia. Racconto 1 exemplar
Wright Richard 1 exemplar
Mi vida de negro 1 exemplar
Długi sen 1 exemplar
Sanje nekega življenja 1 exemplar
Sangre negra 1 exemplar
Fire and cloud 1 exemplar
Five Famous Writers 1 exemplar
Associated Works
Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Contribuidor, algumas edições — 915 exemplares
Race, Class, and Gender in the United States: An Integrated Study (1992) — Contribuidor, algumas edições — 513 exemplares
American Poetry: The Twentieth Century, Volume Two: E. E. Cummings to May Swenson (2000) — Contribuidor — 404 exemplares
The Best Short Stories by Black Writers, 1899-1967: The Classic Anthology (1967) — Contribuidor — 174 exemplares
From Totems to Hip-Hop: A Multicultural Anthology of Poetry Across the Americas 1900-2002 (2002) — Contribuidor — 172 exemplares
Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City (1962) — Introdução, algumas edições — 159 exemplares
Growing Up in the South: An Anthology of Modern Southern Literature (1991) — Contribuidor — 141 exemplares
An American Album: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Harper's Magazine (2000) — Contribuidor — 131 exemplares
Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry (2009) — Contribuidor — 113 exemplares
In Search of Color Everywhere: A Collection of African-American Poetry (1656) — Contribuidor — 99 exemplares
Calling the Wind: Twentieth Century African-American Short Stories (1992) — Contribuidor — 98 exemplares
Voices in Our Blood: America's Best on the Civil Rights Movement (2001) — Contribuidor — 90 exemplares
Go the Way Your Blood Beats: An Anthology of Lesbian and Gay Fiction by African-American Writers (1996) — Contribuidor — 88 exemplares
Bearing Witness: Selections from African-American Autobiography in the Twentieth Century (1991) — Contribuidor — 69 exemplares
Years of Protest: A Collection of American Writings of the 1930's (1967) — Contribuidor — 39 exemplares
Buzz Words: Poems About Insects (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series) (2021) — Contribuidor — 31 exemplares
Ebony Rising: Short Fiction of the Greater Harlem Renaissance Era (2004) — Contribuidor — 16 exemplares
Half-a-Hundred Stories for Men, Great Tales by American Writers (1945) — Contribuidor — 15 exemplares
Fifty Years of the American Short Story from the O. Henry Awards 1919-1970 (1970) — Contribuidor — 13 exemplares
Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City, Volume I (1962) — Introdução, algumas edições — 10 exemplares
The Best Short Stories of 1941 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story (1941) — Contribuidor — 10 exemplares
The Best Short Stories of 1939 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story (1939) — Contribuidor — 6 exemplares
Fifty Years of the American Short Story from the O. Henry Awards 1919-1970, Volume II (1970) — Contribuidor — 5 exemplares
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome canónico
- Wright, Richard
- Nome legal
- Wright, Richard Nathaniel
- Data de nascimento
- 1908-09-04
- Data de falecimento
- 1960-11-28
- Localização do túmulo
- Le Père Lachaise Cemetery, Paris, France
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- USA (birth)
France (naturalized 1947) - Local de nascimento
- Roxie, Mississippi, USA
- Local de falecimento
- Paris, France
- Causa da morte
- heart attack
- Locais de residência
- Jackson, Mississippi, USA
Chicago, Illinois, USA
New York, New York, USA
Paris, France - Educação
- Lanier High School, Jackson, Mississippi, USA
- Ocupações
- novelist
short-story writer
poet
essayist
editor
postal clerk - Organizações
- John Reed Club
Communist Party
National Negro Congress
South Side Writers Group (chairman)
Left Front (editor)
Daily Worker (editor) (mostrar todos 7)
Works Progress Administration Federal Writers' Project - Prémios e menções honrosas
- Spingarn Medal (1941)
Guggenheim Fellowship
Chicago Literary Hall of Fame (2010)
Story Prize (1938)
Membros
Críticas
Listas
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First Novels (1)
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Prémios
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 55
- Also by
- 70
- Membros
- 17,018
- Popularidade
- #1,306
- Avaliação
- 4.0
- Críticas
- 216
- ISBN
- 353
- Línguas
- 13
- Marcado como favorito
- 32
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