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RICHARD WRIGHT (1908-1960)
An African American born on a Mississippi
plantation, Wright struggled through a difficult childhood and worked to educate himself.
In the 1930s, he joined the Federal Writers' Project in Chicago and wrote Uncle Tom's
Children (1938), a collection of four novellas dealing with Southern racial problems. His
novel Native Son (1940), which many consider Wright's most important work, concerns the
life of Bigger Thomas, a victimized African American struggling against the complicated
political and social conditions of Chicago in the 1930s. In 1932, Wright joined the
Communist party but later left it in disillusionment. After World War II, Wright moved to
Paris.
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