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Black Boy

Richard Wright

1945

Harper & Brothers

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Richard Wright.

Outcasts and Desperados

Reflections on Richard Wright’s recently published novel, "The Man Who Lived Underground."

by Adam Shatz via London Review of Books on October 4, 2021

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A painting of a lively sermon in a Black church.

Respectability Be Damned: How the Harlem Renaissance Paved the Way for Art by Black Nonbelievers

How James Baldwin, Richard Wright, Zora Neale Hurston, and others embraced a new Black humanism.

by Anthony B. Pinn via Literary Hub on May 24, 2024

Richard Wright at a typewriter

Richard Wright's Newly Uncut Novel Offers a Timely Depiction of Police Brutality

'The Man Who Lived Underground,' newly expanded from a story into a novel by the Library of America, may revise the seminal Black author's reputation.

by Sonaiya Kelley via Los Angeles Times on April 19, 2021

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