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Richard Wright

Born

in Rucker's Plantation, Roxie, Mississippi, The United States

September 04, 1908

Died

November 28, 1960

Genre

Fiction, Nonfiction, Philosophy

Influences

Fyodor Dostoevsky, H.L. Mencken, Theodore Dreiser, C.S. Lewis, Gertrud ...more

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Richard Nathaniel Wright was an African-American author of powerful, sometimes controversial novels, short stories and non-fiction. Much of his literature concerned racial themes. His work helped redefine discussions of race relations in America in the mid-20th century.

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Richard Wright’s books

Average rating: 4.03 · 160,274 ratings · 8,032 reviews · 161 distinct works • Similar authors

	Native Son 4.01 avg rating — 93,688 ratings — published 1940 — 153 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Black Boy by Richard Wright, Jerry W. Ward Jr. (Introduction) 4.07 avg rating — 50,974 ratings — published 1945 — 180 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Uncle Tom's Children by Richard Wright, Richard Yarborough (Introduction) 4.11 avg rating — 2,907 ratings — published 1938 — 43 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Outsider 4.17 avg rating — 2,186 ratings — published 1953 — 33 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Man Who Lived Underground 4.06 avg rating — 1,785 ratings — published 2021 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Eight Men by Richard Wright, Paul Gilroy (Introduction) 3.96 avg rating — 760 ratings — published 1961 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Haiku: This Other World by Richard Wright, Yoshinobu Hakutani (Editor), Robert L. Tener (Editor) 4.14 avg rating — 543 ratings — published 1998 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Rite of Passage by Richard Wright, David Díaz (Illustrator) 3.68 avg rating — 604 ratings — published 1993 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	12 Million Black Voices by Richard Wright, Noel Ignatiev (Foreword by), David Bradley (Introduction) 4.11 avg rating — 404 ratings — published 1969 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Man Who Was Almost a Man 3.27 avg rating — 358 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by Richard Wright

“Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books...”
― Richard Wright, Black Boy

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“The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.”
― Richard Wright

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“I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of the hunger for life that gnaws in us all.”
― Richard Wright, Black Boy

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Polls

What frequently challenged or banned adult-themed book should we read in January and February?

[Note: if you want to see different books in the polls, suggest some!]

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

10 votes, 30.3%

The Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire

6 votes, 18.2%

1984 by George Orwell

4 votes, 12.1%

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

4 votes, 12.1%

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

3 votes, 9.1%

Carrie by Stephen King

3 votes, 9.1%

Native Son by Richard Wright

2 votes, 6.1%

American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis

1 vote, 3.0%

My House by Nikki Giovanni

0 votes, 0.0%

The Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy

0 votes, 0.0%

33 total votes

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