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Richard Wright

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Born:
September 4, 1908, near Natchez, Mississippi, U.S.
Died:
November 28, 1960, Paris, France (aged 52)
Notable Works:
“A Father’s Law”
“American Hunger”
“Black Boy”
“Eight Men”
“Native Son”
“Rite of Passage”
“The Man Who Lived Underground”
“The Outsider”
“Uncle Tom’s Children”
“White Man, Listen!”
Subjects Of Study:
United States
African American
race relations
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Richard Wright (born September 4, 1908, near Natchez, Mississippi, U.S.—died November 28, 1960, Paris, France) novelist and short-story writer who was among the first African American writers to protest white treatment of Blacks, notably in his novel Native Son (1940) and his autobiography, Black Boy (1945). He inaugurated the tradition of protest explored by other Black writers after World War II. Wright’s grandparents had been slaves. His father left home when he was five, and the boy, who grew up in poverty, was often shifted from one relative to another. He worked at a number of jobs before joining the ...(100 of 542 words)

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