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Richard Wright, Author born

*Richard Nathaniel Wright was born on this date in 1908. He was a Black writer.

Wright was born outside of Natchez, Mississippi. His father left the family when Wright was young, and soon after, his mother, a schoolteacher, was stricken with a paralyzing illness. Raised mostly by relatives, Wright quit school at 15 and moved to Memphis.

There, he worked odd jobs and began a process of self-education, having a white friend borrow books from the segregated public library. During the 1930s, Wright wrote and edited projects for the Federal Writers' Project in Chicago. Wright’s first book, Uncle Tom's Children, won first prize in a writing competition sponsored by the Writers’ Project. In 1937, Wright moved to New York City.

After winning a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1939, Wright completed his novel Native Son. The book explores the violent psychological pressures that drive Bigger Thomas, a young black man, to murder. Native Son was an immediate sensation with white and Black readers, and this wide appeal helped make Wright the first black writer

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Richard Wright

(1908-1960)

Who Was Richard Wright?

Richard Wright was an African American writer and poet who published his first short story at the age of 16. Later, he found employment with the Federal Writers' Project and received critical acclaim for Uncle Tom's Children, a collection of four stories. He is well-known for his 1940 bestseller Native Son and his 1945 autobiography, Black Boy.

Early Life

Richard Nathaniel Wright was born on September 4, 1908, in Roxie, Mississippi. The grandson of slaves and the son of a sharecropper, Wright was largely raised by his mother, a caring woman who became a single parent after her husband left the family when Wright was five years old.

Schooled in Jackson, Mississippi, Wright only managed to get a ninth-grade education, but he was a voracious reader and showed early on that he had a way with words. When he was 16, a short story of his was published in a Southern African American newspaper, an encouraging sign for future prospects. After leaving school, Wright worked a series of odd jobs, and in his free time, he delved

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Richard Wright (author)

American novelist and poet (1908–1960)

Richard Wright
Wright in a 1939 photograph by Carl Van Vechten
Born	Richard Nathaniel Wright (1908-09-04)September 4, 1908 Plantation, Roxie, Mississippi, U.S.
Died	November 28, 1960(1960-11-28) (aged 52) Paris, France
Occupation	Novelist poet essayist short story writer
Period	1938–60
Genre	Drama, fiction, non-fiction, autobiography
Notable works	Uncle Tom's Children, Native Son, Black Boy, The Outsider
Spouse	Dhimah Rose Meidman (m. 1939; div. 1940) Ellen Poplar (m. 1941)
Children	2

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 U