Later works
Main Author: | Wright, Richard, 1908-1960. |
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Format: | Books Print Book |
Language: | English |
Published: |
New York, N.Y. :
Library of America : Distributed in the U.S. and Canada by Viking Press,
1991.
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Online Access: |
Go to Downloadable eBook Here. |
Physical Description: |
887 p. ; 21 cm. |
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ISBN: |
0940450674 (alk. paper) : |
Author Notes: |
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) |