Richard Wright
Consistently an outsideraa child of the fundamentalist South with an eighth-grade education, a self-taught intellectual, a black man married to a white womanaRichard Wright nonetheless became the unparalleled voice of his time. The first full-scale biography of the author best known for his searing novels Black Boy and Native Son, Richard Wright: The Life and Times brings the man and his workain all their complexity and distinctionato vibrant life. Acclaimed biographer Hazel Rowley chronicles Wrightas unprecedented journey from a sharecropperas shack in Mississippi to Chicagoas South Side to international renown as a writer and outspoken critic of racism. Drawing on journals, letters, and eyewitness accounts, Richard Wright probes the authoras relationships with Langston Hughes and Ralph Ellison, his attraction to Communism, and his so-called exile in France. Skillfully interweaving quotes from Wrightas own writings, Rowley deftly portrays a passionate, courageous, and flawed man who would become one of our most enduring literary figures. aSplendid. . . . Richard Wright is well written, prodigiously researched, and nicely paced, a compelling evocation of the man, his craft, and the different worlds through which he moved.aaMichael J. Ybarra, Wall Street Journal aA welcome and illuminating work . . . [Rowley] does an outstanding job. . . . Rich and revealing.aaMegan Harlan, San Francisco Chronicle aA magnificent biography, subtle and insightful. . . . Rowley writes with style and grace, and her research on Wright is prodigious.aaHoward Zinn, The WeekSkillfully interweaving quotations from Wrighta#39;s writings, Rowley portrays a man who transcended the times in which he lived and sought to reconcile opposing cultures in his work.
| Title | : | Richard Wright |
| Author | : | Hazel Rowley |
| Publisher | : | University of Chicago Press - 2008-02-15 |
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