About

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Birthday:
1908-09-04
Place of birth:
Roxie, Mississippi, USA
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Richard Wright

Overview

His powerful, eloquent work examined the injustices African-Americans face in a white society. He won immediate fame for his first novel, "Native Son" (1940). It tells the story of Bigger Thomas, a young chauffeur whose inarticulate rage over his lot ultimately erupts into violence. "Native Son" was adapted into a play directed by Orson Welles in 1941, filmed in 1951 with Wright himself playing Bigger, and again in 1986. Wright's other books include "Black Boy" (1945), an autobiography; the novels "The Outsider" (1953) and "The Long Dream" (1958); the story collections "Uncle Tom's Children" (1938) and "Eight Men" (1961); and the philosophical volumes "Black Power" (1954) and "White Man, Listen!" (1957). Richard Nathaniel Wright was born near Natchez, Mississippi. Largely self-educated, he began to write after moving to Chicago around 1927. He was a member of the Communist Party from 1932 to 1944; he later wrote of his disillusionment with that system in "The God That Failed" (1949), a collection of essays by former party members. Wright lived in Paris from 1946 until his death. A second book of memoirs, "American Hunger," was published posthumously in 1977.

Known for

Acting

2009 Richard Wright: Native Son, Author and Activist Actor Self N/A
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1951 Native Son Actor Bigger Thomas 58
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Writing

2019 Native Son Writing Novel 58
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1996 America's Dream Writing Story 59
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1988 The Catwalk Writing Novel 58
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1986 Native Son Writing Writer 59
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1976 Almos' a Man Writing Short Story N/A
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1967 Savage Sunday Writing Writer 58
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1951 Native Son Writing Novel 58
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