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100 Years of Richard Wright Richard Wright. The literary significance of Richard Wright cannot be gainsaid. In fact, in reviewing Native Son was published in 1940, the leading American literary critic Irvin Howe wrote, “The day Native Son appeared, American culture was changed forever.” Born near Natchez, Mississippi in 1908, Wright was identified , by the middle of the twentieth century, as “the most influential African American novelist that ever lived.” His globally read and studied autobiography Black Boy: A Record of Childhood and Youth (1945), novel, Native Son (1940), and collection of stories, Uncle Tom’s Children (1947) are considered American classics. In addition, Wright authored The Outsider (1953), The Long Dream (1958), Lawd Today (1963), Savage Holiday, A Father's Law (2008) and a second collection |
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of stories, Eight Men (1961). His non-fictional works include Twelve Million Black Voices: A Folk History of the Negro in the United States ( 1941), Black Power: A Record of Reaction in a Land of Pathos (1954), The Color Curtain (1956) Pagan Spain (1956), and White Man Listen! (1957) Wright also wrote 817 haiku poems which were published posthumously in This Other World: Haiku (1998); they were recently translated by two of our invited scholars. |
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