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  2. Richard Wright (author) - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. Uncle Tom's Children - Wikipedia

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    Uncle Tom's Children is a collection of novellas and the first book published by African-American author Richard Wright, who went on to write Native Son (1940), Black Boy (1945), and The Outsider (1953).

  4. Black Boy - Wikipedia

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    Black Boy (1945) is a memoir by American author Richard Wright, detailing his upbringing.Wright describes his youth in the South: Mississippi, Arkansas and Tennessee, and his eventual move to Chicago, where he establishes his writing career and becomes involved with the Communist Party.

  5. Richard Wright - Wikipedia

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    Richard R. Wright Jr. (1878–1967), American sociologist Richard T. Wright (born 1951), American criminologist Orville Wilbur Richard "Rick" Wright, a character in the TV series Magnum, P.I. , named Orville "Rick" Wright in the 2018 series reboot

  6. The Outsider (Wright novel) - Wikipedia

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    The Outsider is a novel by American author Richard Wright, first published in 1953. The Outsider is Richard Wright's second installment in a story of epic proportions, a complex master narrative to show American racism in raw and ugly terms.

  7. Native Son - Wikipedia

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    Native Son (1940) is a novel written by the American author Richard Wright. It tells the story of 20-year-old Bigger Thomas, a black youth living in utter poverty in a poor area on Chicago's South Side in the 1930s. Thomas accidentally kills a white woman at a time when racism is at its peak and he pays the price for it. [1]

  8. The God that Failed - Wikipedia

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    The God That Failed is a 1949 collection of six essays by Louis Fischer, André Gide, Arthur Koestler, Ignazio Silone, Stephen Spender, and Richard Wright. [1] The common theme of the essays is the authors' disillusionment with and abandonment of communism.

  9. The Color Curtain - Wikipedia

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    African-American author Richard Wright's book The Color Curtain: A Report on the Bandung Conference (Cleveland and New York: World, 1956) is based on his impressions and analysis of the postcolonial Asian-African Conference, which was a gathering of representatives from 29 independent Asian and African countries, held in the city of Bandung, Indonesia, April 18–24, 1955.