Results for "Wright, Richard"

One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels “If one had to identify the single most influential shaping force in modern Black literary history, one would probably have to point to Wright and the publication of Native Son.” – Henry Louis Gates Jr. "The most powerful American novel to appear since The... Read More about Native Son: A Novel

New York Times Bestseller • One of the Best Books of the Year by Time magazine, the Chicago Tribune, the Boston Globe, and Esquire, and one of Oprah’s 15 Favorite Books of the Year From the legendary author of Native Son and Black Boy, the novel he was un... Read More about The Man Who Lived Underground: A Novel

"Superb. . . . A great American writer speaks with his own voice about matters that still resonate at the center of our lives." —New York Times Book Review A striking new edition of Richard Wright's powerful and unforgettable memoir, with a foreword by John Edgar Wideman and an afterword by Malcolm ... Read More about Black Boy

One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels “If one had to identify the single most influential shaping force in modern Black literary history, one would probably have to point to Wright and the publication of Native Son.” —Henry Louis Gates Jr. Right from the start, Bigger Thomas had been headed fo... Read More about Native Son (Harper Perennial Deluxe Editions)

A special Harper Perennial Deluxe Edition of Richard Wright's powerful account of his journey from innocence to experience in the Jim Crow South—a poignant and disturbing record of social injustice and human suffering When it exploded onto the literary scene in 1945, Black Boy was bot... Read More about Black Boy (Harper Perennial Deluxe Editions)

"I found these stories both heartening. . . and terrifying as the expression of a racial hatred that has never ceased to grow and gets no chance to die." —Malcolm Cowley, The New Republic Richard Wright's powerful collection of novellas set in the American Deep South, now available as a limited Oliv... Read More about Uncle Tom's Children: Novellas (Harper Perennial Olive Editions)