Wright, Richard

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 bildungsroman of an African-American boy in 1930s-40s Mississippi who experiences the violent consequences of racism and sexual repression while coping with his strained relationship with his father.

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

Collection of interviews revealing Wright's racial experience and the themes and techniques of his own work.

An autobiography describing the author's struggles against the dehumanizing southern social environment of the Jim Crow South.

Autobiography of Southern Negro who yearned for intellectual and physical freedom.

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