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Richard Wright : the life and times Cover Image Book Book

Richard Wright : the life and times

Rowley, Hazel (Author).

Summary: ""How in hell did you happen?" the Chicago sociologist Robert Park once asked Richard Wright. Hazel Rowley shows how, chronicling with the dramatic drive of a novel Wright's extraordinary journey from a sharecropper's shack in Mississippi to international renown as a writer, fiercely independent thinker, and outspoken critic of racism." "The author draws on recently discovered material to shed new light on Wright's relationships with a variety of women, including Carson McCullers, Gertrude Stein, and his longtime wife, Ellen Poplowitz, and male friends such as Langston Hughes, Nelson Algren, Ralph Ellison, and his occasional critic, James Baldwin. To Simone de Beauvoir and the existentialists it was Richard Wright, more than any other American writer, who was writing the "committed literature" they admired."--BOOK JACKET.

Item details

  • ISBN: 080504776X
  • ISBN: 9780805047769
  • Physical Description: print
    x, 626 p. : ill ; 25 cm.
  • Edition: 1st ed.
  • Publisher: New York : Henry Holt and Co., 2001.

Contents / Notes

General Note:
"A John Macrae book."
Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. [593]-595) and index.
Formatted Contents Note: Mississippi -- Whisper of liberty -- South side of Chicago -- Words as weapons -- Bastard intellectual -- Crossing the divide -- Change of fortune -- Grappling with bigger -- Marriage -- Fame -- Cuernavaca -- Backstage and onstage: Drama of native son -- Ellen Poplowitz -- Weathercock turns -- Wartime brooklyn -- Troublingly delicate matter -- Daily life -- Preparing to leave -- Crossing the atlantic -- Expatriates -- Argentina -- Existential dread -- Journey to the gold coast -- From bullfights to bandung -- Lonely outsiders -- "I am nobody" -- Stepping off this old earth.

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Subject: Wright, Richard 1908-1960
Authors, American 20th century Biography
African American authors Biography

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Athens Regional Library System:
      Athens-Clarke County Library 		BIO WRIGHT ( Send Text)
 31001000078163 BIOGRAPHY Available
Augusta-Richmond County Public Library System:
      Augusta-Richmond Co. Public Lib. 		B WRIGHT ( Send Text)
 31019000212830 ADULT Available
Augusta-Richmond County Public Library System:
      Diamond Lakes Branch Library 		B WRIGHT ( Send Text)
 31019000714884 ADULT Available
Azalea Regional Library System:
      Greene County Public Library 		BIO WRIGHT ( Send Text)
 31056005418202 ADULT Available
Azalea Regional Library System:
      O'Kelly Memorial Library 		BIO WRIGHT ( Send Text)
 31056005256248 ADULT Available
Clayton County Library System:
      Headquarters Library 		813.092 WRIGHT ,RICHARD ( Send Text)
 31012000125334 STACKS Available
Clayton County Library System:
      Morrow Branch 		813.092 WRIGHT ,RICHARD ( Send Text)
 31012000125326 STACKS Available
Coastal Plain Regional Library System:
      Irwin County Library 		928.1 ROWLEY, HAZEL ( Send Text)
 39375002451137 Adult Non Fiction Available
Conyers-Rockdale Library System:
      Nancy Guinn Memorial Library 		B WRIGHT ROW ( Send Text)
 31015000953977 BIOGRAPHY Available
Dougherty County Public Library:
      Central Branch 		813.52 ROWLEY, HAZEL ( Send Text)
 31018000745005 NONFIC Available
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