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Richard Wright

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born

September 04, 1908 in Adams County, Mississippi, The United States

died

November 28, 1960

gender

male

genre

Literature & Fiction, Short Stories, Nonfiction

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Richard Nathaniel Wright was an African-American author of powerful, sometimes controversial novels, short stories and non-fiction. Much of his literature concerned racial themes. His work helped redefine discussions of race relations in America in the mid-20th century.

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Average rating: 3.86 · 39,227 ratings · 2,398 reviews · 60 distinct works

	Native Son 3.84 avg rating — 23,501 ratings — published 1940 — 51 editions	My rating:
	Black Boy by Richard Wright, Jerry W. Ward Jr. (Introduction) 3.87 avg rating — 13,167 ratings — published 1945 — 40 editions	My rating:
	Uncle Tom's Children by Richard Wright, Richard Yarborough (Introduction) 3.91 avg rating — 736 ratings — published 1977 — 13 editions	My rating:
	The Outsider 4.02 avg rating — 585 ratings — published 1953 — 8 editions	My rating:
	Eight Men: Short Stories by Richard Wright, Paul Gilroy (Introduction) 3.95 avg rating — 191 ratings — published 2 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Rite of Passage by Richard Wright, David Diaz (Illustrator) 3.56 avg rating — 157 ratings — published 1993 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Haiku by Richard Wright, Yoshinobu Hakutani (Editor), Robert L. Tener (Editor) 4.07 avg rating — 113 ratings — published 1998 — 5 editions	My rating:
	12 Million Black Voices by Richard Wright, Noel Ignatiev (Foreword by), David Bradley (Introduction) 3.90 avg rating — 81 ratings — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Long Dream by Richard Wright, Keneth Kinnamon 4.07 avg rating — 61 ratings — published 1958 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Lawd Today! by Richard Wright, Arnold Rampersad 3.64 avg rating — 64 ratings — published 1963 — 4 editions	My rating:

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Quotes by Richard Wright

“Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.”
― Richard Wright, Native Son

tags: self-realization

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“Violence is a personal necessity for the oppressed...It is not a strategy consciously devised. It is the deep, instinctive expression of a human being denied individuality.”
― Richard Wright, Native Son

35 people liked it

“I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of hunger for life that gnaws in us all.”
― Richard Wright

33 people liked it

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What frequently challenged or banned adult-themed book should we read in November?

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

4 votes, 50.0%

Carrie by Stephen King

3 votes, 37.5%

Native Son by Richard Wright

1 vote, 12.5%

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

0 votes, 0.0%

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

0 votes, 0.0%

1984 by George Orwell

0 votes, 0.0%

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

0 votes, 0.0%

American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis

0 votes, 0.0%

8 total votes

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