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Richard Wright
Richard Wright (1908 - 1960) was an author of novels, short stories and nonfictionwho was born in Roxie, MS, and grew up in Memphis, TN, with a brief stint in Jackson, MS while he attended high school. Wright spent much of his life in Chicago and New York before expatriating to Paris in 1946, where he died of a heart attack six years later.
Wright’s bibliography includes nine works of fiction, three of which were published posthumously, and several works of nonfiction and literary criticism.
Among Wright’s most notable works are the short story collection Uncle Tom’s Children, which won him a Guggenheim Fellowship, the novel Native Son, and the autobiography, Black Boy.
