Author

Books by Richard Wright

Richard Wright (1908–1960) was an American novelist and short story writer whose work reshaped how Black American experience was represented in literature. Born on a plantation in Mississippi, he moved to Chicago and later to New York as part of the Great Migration. His early story collection Uncle Tom's Children (1938) established him as a major voice. Native Son (1940) made him internationally famous. His autobiography Black Boy (1945) is considered equally essential. Wright later moved to Paris, where he spent the last years of his life as an expatriate.