Richard Wright: From Black Boy to World Citizen

by Jennifer Jensen Wallach and Jennifer Jensen Wallach author of How America Eats: A Social History of US Food and Culture

Book Overview

Upon meeting thirty-three-year-old Richard Wright in 1941, the renowned sociologist Robert Park famously demanded, "How in hell did you happen?" Having been born into poverty in a sharecropper's cabin in 1908, Wright managed to complete only an eighth-grade education. Yet by the time he met Park he was the best-selling author of Native Son (1940), a searing indictment of racism that is a classic of American literature. Although Wright died prematurely...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1566638240
• ISBN13: 9781566638241
• Release Date: June 2010
• Publisher: Ivan R. Dee Publisher
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 9.0"