Richard Wright
1) Native son
Author
Language
English
Description
Right from the start, Bigger Thomas had been headed for jail. It could have been for assault or petty larceny; by chance, it was for murder and rape. Native Son tells the story of this young black man caught in a downward spiral after he kills a young white woman in a brief moment of panic. Set in Chicago in the 1930s, Wright's powerful novel is an unsparing reflection on the poverty and feelings of hopelessness experienced by people in inner cities...
2) Black boy
Author
Publisher
Caedmon
Pub. Date
[2005], p1998.
Language
English
Description
The author relates his life as an African American growing up in the South during the Jim Crow years.
3) Later works
Author
Series
Library of America volume 56
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
c1991.
Language
English
Description
Wright presents a compelling story of a black man's attempt to escape his past and start anew in Harlem. Cross Damon is a man at odds with society and with himself, a man who hungers for peace but who brings terror and destruction wherever he goes.
Author
Publisher
Millbrook Press, a division of Lerner Publishing Group, Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
From watching a sunset to finding a beetle, Richard Wright's haiku puts everyday moments into focus. Paired with the photo-collage artwork of Nina Crews, Seeing into Tomorrow celebrates the lives of contemporary African American boys.
Author
Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
1989.
Language
English
Description
Set in the American Deep South, each of the powerful novellas collected here concerns an aspect of the lives of black people in the postslavery era, exploring their resistance to white racism and oppression. Published in 1938, this was the first book from Wright, who would continue on to worldwide fame as the author of the novels Native Son and Black Boy.
6) The outsider
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
[The author] presents a compelling story of a black man's attempt to escape his past and start anew in Harlem. Cross Damon is a man at odds with society and with himself, a man who hungers for peace but who brings terror and destruction wherever he goes.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
A beautiful and aristocratic vampire named Selene falls in love with a Lycan, a werewolf, whose people are involved in an ancient war with the vampires; the vampire Selene, known as a "death dealer," fights to stop the release of the original Lycan; a Lycan slave gathers his fellow werewolves to rise up against the vampires holding them captive.
Publisher
Smithsonian Networks
Pub. Date
c2010.
Language
English
Description
This documentary recounts the role of the Federal Writers Project as the largest cultural experiment in the nation's history. Program focuses on the role played by writers who recorded local and oral histories all over the nation, many finding national acclaim as a result.