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Richard Wright : the life and times

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  • "Born in Mississippi in 1908, the grandson of former slaves, Richard Wright spent his teenage years chopping wood, carrying coal, scrubbing floors, and enduring a thousand indignities. Later in his work, he raised profoundly disturbing questions about the "nightmarish jungle" of race relations in contemporary America, offering profoundly pessimistic answers in return. Wright had a large readership--even, for a time, a place on the bestseller lists and the top income-tax bracket. But, because he had joined the Communist Party as a young man, he was accused of anti-Americanism and even suspected of spying for Moscow and his books were banned in several states and cities. Eventually, a prophet without honor, he left his native country and lived out the rest of his years in France, where he is buried."
  • "Presents the life of Richard Wright, focusing on his work as a writer, independent thinker, critic of racism, and his relationships with a variety of women and men based on eyewitness accounts and letters."

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  • "Richard Wright the life and times"
  • "Richard Wright : The Life and Times"

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