Consistently an outsider - a child of the fundamentalist South with
an eighth-grade education, a self-taught intellectual, a black man
married to a white woman - Richard Wright nonetheless became the
unparalleled voice of his time. The first full-scale biography of
the author best known for his searing novels Black Boy and Native
Son, Richard Wright: The Life and Times brings the man and his work
- in all their complexity and distinction - to vibrant life.
Acclaimed biographer Hazel Rowley chronicles Wright's unprecedented
journey from a sharecropper's shack in Mississippi to Chicago's
South Side to international renown as a writer and outspoken critic
of racism.Drawing on journals, letters, and eyewitness accounts,
Richard Wright probes the author's relationships with Langston
Hughes and Ralph Ellison, his attraction to Communism, and his
so-called exile in France. Skillfully interweaving quotes from
Wright's own writings, Rowley deftly portrays a passionate,
courageous, and flawed man who would become one of our most
enduring literary figures.
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