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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.
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.
Richard William Wright (28 July 1943 – 15 September 2008) was an English keyboardist and songwriter who co-founded the progressive rock band Pink Floyd. He appeared on almost every Pink Floyd album and performed on all of their tours. [ 3 ]
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.
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).
Various other books with this aim were published in the late 1930s and early 1940s. [2] [3] Wright likely sought to represent many Black people in the United States, as evidenced by the title referencing 12 Million Black Voices. [3] Wright researched his text primarily from Horace R. Cayton Jr.'s files in Chicago. [4]
The award-winning journalist and author behind Generation Kill, Evan Wright, has died aged 59. His wife confirmed the news to Rolling Stone on Monday (15 July). The Los Angeles County Medical ...
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