Wright, Richard, 1908-1960
רייט, ריצ׳רד, 1908־1960
راىت، رىچارد
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found: Uncle Tom's children ... 1938.
found: Richard Wright, a collection of critical essays, c1984:CIP title page (Richard Wright) galley (Richard Nathaniel Wright)
found: Ben-kushim, 1961:title page (Rits'ard Raiṭ)
found: Rite of passage, c1994:title page (Richard Wright) jkt. (b. 1908, near Natchez, Mississippi; expatriated himself to Paris; d. 1960)
found: Wikipedia, Nov. 22, 2013(Richard Nathaniel Wright (Sep. 4, 1908, at Plantation, Roxie, Mississippi - Nov. 28, 1960, Paris) was an African-American author of sometimes controversial novels, short stories, poems, and non-fiction. Much of his literature concerns racial themes, especially those involving the plight of African Americans during the late 19th to mid-20th centuries. His work helped change race relations in the United States in the mid-20th century) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Wright_%28author%29 found: African American National Biography, accessed September 23, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:(Wright, Richard; Richard Nathaniel Wright; fiction writer; born 04 September 1908 in Adams County, Mississippi, United States; pressured to join the Communist Party (1934); left the party and became an outspoken anti-Communist (1944); supervisor, Illinois Writers Project (Federal Writers Project); influenced by Marxism and the Chicago School of Sociology; won a national competition of WPA writers for his collection of short stories Uncle Tom's Children (1938); Guggenheim Fellowship allowed him to work full-time on his novel Native Son (1939-1940); he left the United States in 1949 to live and work in Argentina, Spain, France and other countries; known as the first African American writer to enter mainstream American literature; died 28 November 1960 in Paris, France)
found: Taʻṭīlāt-i vaḥshatzā, 1965:t.p. (رىچارد راىت = Rīchārd Rāyt)
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