Wright, Charles, 1932-2008
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Wright, Charles Stevenson, 1932-2008
Wright, Charles S., 1932-2008
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found: The messenger, 1964:t.p. (Charles Wright)
found: Contemp. novelists, 1976(Wright, Charles (Stevenson); American; b. in New Franklin, Mo., 1-4-1932; author of The messenger; The wig, and Absolutely nothing to get alarmed about)
found: LC data base, 6-25-86(hdg.: Wright, Charles Stevenson, 1932- ; usage: Charles Wright)
found: New York times WWW site, Oct. 8, 2008(Charles Wright; b. Charles Stevenson Wright, June 4, 1932, New Franklin, Mo.; d. Oct. 1, Manhattan, aged 76; wrote three autobiographical novels about black street life in New York City between 1963 and 1973 that seemed to herald the rise of an important literary talent, but vanished into alcoholism and despair and never published another book)
found: Answers.com, Sept. 16, 2014(Wright, Charles S.; born 1932; novelist, columnist, short fiction writer, and black humorist. Charles Stevenson Wright was born and raised west of Columbia, Missouri, in the small town of New Franklin. Upon his release from the army in 1954, he wrote “No Regrets,” an unpublished novel about an affair between a black beatnik from New York City's East Village and an upper-class white girl. Not until the 1960s would Wright begin publishing the blackly humorous, passionately idiosyncratic books that add tragic clarity to the nightmare of contemporary African American existence)
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1986-07-03: new
2014-09-16: revised
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