Biography of author richard wright
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Richard Wright (author)
American novelist and poet (1908–1960)
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Wright in a 1939 photograph by Carl Van Vechten | |
| Born | Richard Nathaniel Wright (1908-09-04)September 4, 1908 Plantation, Roxie, Mississippi, U.S. |
| Died | November 28, 1960(1960-11-28) (aged 52) Paris, France |
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| Period | 1938–60 |
| Genre | Drama, fiction, non-fiction, autobiography |
| Notable works | Uncle Tom's Children, Native Son, Black Boy, The Outsider |
| Spouse | Dhimah Rose Meidman (m. 1939; div. 1940)Ellen Poplar (m. 1941) |
| Children | 2 |
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 cen
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Richard Nathaniel Wright (1908–1960)
Richard Nathaniel Wright was a writer of fiction and nonfiction. His many works, influenced by the injustices he faced as an African American, protested racial divides in amerika. His most famous work, the autobiographical Black Boy, was a controversial bestseller that opened the eyes of the nation to the evils of racism.
Richard Wright was born on September 4, 1908, on a farm in Roxie, Mississippi, the son of Nathan Wright, a sharecropper, and Ella Wright, a teacher. He had one younger brother, Leon. The family’s poverty forced them to move around the South during Wright’s childhood. In Memphis, Tennessee, his father left the family, and in 1915, his mother put Wright and his brother in a Memphis orphanage after she became ill. A year later, Wright began school at the Howe Institute in Memphis. Wright and his mother and brother eventually moved to Elaine (Phillips County) in 1916 to live with Ella’s sister, Maggie, and Maggie’s husband, Sila
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Theodore Dreiser
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Full Name: Richard Nathaniel WrightDate and Location of Birth
September 4, 1908
Roxie, Mississippi
Date of Location Death
November 28, 1960
Paris, France
Parents
Nathaniel Wright
Ella Wilson
Married
Dhimah Rose Meadman (Divorced)
Ellen Poplar