Richard Wright Table

Books by Richard Wright

Richard Wright: Early Works / Black Boy / Native Son / Uncle Tom's Children / 12 Million Black Voices / Richard Wright: Later Works

The Outsider / Pagan Spain / Black Power / White Man Listen! / The Color Curtain / Savage Holiday / The Long Dream

Eight Men: Short Stories / Haiku / American Hunger / Lawd Today! / A Father’s Law

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Richard Wright was a brilliant writer whose collection of short stories (novellas), Uncle Tom's Children, won a $500-prize competition in 1938. Native Son, the March 1940 selection of the Book-of-the-Month club, was his first full-length novel.

In 1935, Wright got on the Federal Writers' Project in Chicago. By the time he had sold poetry, articles and some stories to little magazines, and was working on his first, Uncle Tom's Children.

He went to New York in 1937, lived from hand to mouth for some months, then got on the Writers' Project. he wrote the essay on Harlem in New York Panorama. he also did some work on the Daily Worker (he says he never got orders from Stalin to cover anything) and became a contributing editor of the New Masses.

His book of four long short stories, Uncle Tom's Children, part of which had originally appeared in in the New Caravan, was a success. The stories won high critical praise; what one critic had to say of them is characteristic: "Uncle Tom's Children has its full share of violence and brutality; violent deaths occur in three stories and the mob goes to work in all four. more

Table

An American Goes Back to Africa ( Lewis)

Bio-Chronology (1908-1960)

A Brief Defense of Richard Wright and Other Writers (Ward)

Blueprint for Negro Literature (Wright)

Dr. Jerry Ward Lectures on Richard Wright

The Homestretch to the Richard Wright Centennial (Julia Wright)

I Bite the Hand That Feeds Me (Wright)

I Tried to Be a Communist (Wright)

Native Son 1 (Review)

Native Son 2 (Review)

On Richard Wright and Our Contemporary Situation (Ward)