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Richard WrightBy Jose Lopez
• Born: September 4, 1908- November 28, 1960
• Plantation, Roxie, Mississippi
• Occupation: Novelist, poet, essayist, short story writer
• Notable Works: “Uncle Tom’s Children”, “Native Son”, “Black Boy”, “ The Outsider”
Early Life
• Grandson of slaves and the son of a sharecropper
• Lived in an orphanage; lived with Grandmother and Aunt
• Managed to get to the ninth grade
• Presented a gift with words and was a voracious reader
• Published his first story in a southern African American newspaper at the age of 16, “The Voodoo of Hell’s Half-Acre”
Life in the North
• 1927 Wright left the South and moved to Chicago
• Joined the John Reed Club set by Communist Party
• Fell into Communism in 1932
• 1936 served as literary advisor and press agent for the Negro Federal Theatre
Communism Breaks
• 1942 Wright broke Communism
• Began to embrace the idea of Marxism
• Outlined the literary theory for black American writers, “Blueprint for Negro Writing”
Career
• 1938 Published “Uncle Tom’s Children”
• 1940 Published “Native Son”
• 1945 Published “Black Boy”
End of An Inspiration
• Died of a heart attack on November 28, 1960 in Paris, France
Work Cited
• "Richard Nathaniel Wright." 2014. The Biography.com website. Apr 13 2014