Wright, Richard

Trapped in the poverty-stricken ghetto of Chicago's South Side, a young black man finds release only in acts of violence.

A novel left unfinished by Richard Wright at the time of his death in 1960, telling the story of Ruddy Turner, an African-American police chief in a Chicago suburb, who struggles to know what to do when he begins to suspect his college-age son Tommy is a murderer.

A collection of eight stories about African-American men trying to come to terms with living in a white world without resorting to violence.

A collection of 817 haiku written by African-American author Richard Wright during the last eighteen months of his life, in which he focuses on man's relationship to nature and the natural world.

A freak accident allows Cross Damon to flee his wife and job in Chicago, for Harlem and then Greenwich Village. But his new freedom soon seems cursed. He can't become involved with anyone without hurting them.

The autobiography of an African-American writer, recounting his early years and the harrowing experiences he encountered drifting from Natchez to Chicago to Brooklyn.

Presents the abridged 1940 version of Richard Wright's novel in which a young African-American man trapped in the poverty-stricken ghetto of Chicago's South Side accidentally kills a rich white girl and finds himself on a path to self-destruction.

Presents five stories about the lives of African Americans in the deep South during the early twentieth century, and includes an autobiographical essay in which Richard Wright discusses his education in the laws of Jim Crow.

The autobiography of an African-American writer, recounting his early years and the harrowing experiences he encountered drifting from Natchez to Chicago to Brooklyn.