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Richard Wright

Richard WrightBorn: 4-Sep-1908
Birthplace: Roxie, MS
Died: 28-Nov-1960
Location of death: Paris, France
Cause of death: unspecified
Remains: Cremated, Cimetière du Père Lachaise, Paris, France

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: Black
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Author

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Native Son

Father: Nathan Wright
Mother: Ellen

    Communist Party USA Member (1932-44)
    Left at Orphanage temporarily
    Tonsillectomy

    FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
    Native Son (16-Jun-1951)

Author of books:
Uncle Tom's Children (1938, short stories)
Native Son (1940, novel)
Black Boy (1945, memoir)
The Outsider (1953, novel)
The Color Curtain (1956)
Pagan Spain (1957)
White Man, Listen! (1957, lectures)
Eight Men (1961, short stories)
American Hunger (1977, memoir, posthumous)


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