Richard Wright
2) Black boy
Author
Language
English
Description
A special 75th anniversary edition of Richard Wright's powerful and unforgettable memoir, with a new foreword by John Edgar Wideman and an afterword by Malcolm Wright, the author's grandson.
When it exploded onto the literary scene in 1945, Black Boy was both praised and condemned. Orville Prescott of the New York Times wrote that "if enough such books are written, if enough millions of people read them maybe, someday, in
...Author
Publisher
Millbrook Press
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." --
6) Works
Author
Series
Library of America ; 55-56
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
[1991]
Language
English
10) Rite of passage
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
1994.
Language
English
Description
When fifteen-year-old Johnny Gibbs is told that he is really a foster child, he runs off into the streets of Harlem and meets up with a gang that wants him to participate in a mugging. Includes criticism of Wright's fiction.
Author
Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
[1978]
Language
English
Description
Part II: Fiction -- Long Black song -- Fire and cloud. Lawd today [excerpt] -- Native son [excerpt] -- The man who lived underground -- The outsider [excerpt] -- Savage holiday [excerpt] -- Big Black good man -- The long dream [excerpt] -- Black Boy (excerpt) -- Joe Louis Uncovers Dynamite -- Blueprint for Negro Writing -- Letters: Richard Wright/Burton Rascoe -- Richard Wright/David L. Cohn -- Richard Wright/Antonio Frasconi -- Review: Wars I Have...
Author
Publisher
The Chatham Bookseller
Pub. Date
1969.
Language
English
Description
Officially an undertaker, Tyree has his hand in the brothels, the dancehalls, the tenements of the ten thousand Clontonville blacks. When the trap closes in, Tyree's double personality, one for the whites and another for his own people, splits wide open.
