Richard Wright: References & Edit History
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Additional Reading
Works of biography and criticism include Robert Felgar, Richard Wright (1980); Addison Gayle, Richard Wright: Ordeal of a Native Son (1980); Michel Fabre, The World of Richard Wright (1985), and The Unfinished Quest of Richard Wright, trans. from French, 2nd ed. (1993); Hazel Rowley, Richard Wright: The Life and Times (2001); Richard Macksey and Frank E. Moorer (eds.), Richard Wright: A Collection of Critical Essays (1984); Keneth Kinnamon (ed.), New Essays on Native Son (1990); Robert Butler, Native Son: The Emergence of a New Black Hero (1991); Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and K.A. Appiah (eds.), Richard Wright: Critical Perspectives Past and Present (1993); and Robert Butler (ed.), The Critical Response to Richard Wright (1995).
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| Type | Description | Contributor | Date |
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| Anniversary information added. | Nov 24, 2025 | ||
| Anniversary information added. | Aug 31, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Mississippi Writers and Musicians - Richard Wright. | Jan 03, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: University at Buffalo - Department of Mathematics - Richard Wright. | Oct 12, 2024 | ||
| Article restructured. | Sep 03, 2024 | ||
| Article revised and media added. | Sep 03, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research - Richard Wright, An Epoch, A Voice of the Black People. | Aug 09, 2024 | ||
| First paragraph modernization. | Apr 16, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Mississippi Encyclopedia - Richard Wright. | Feb 06, 2024 | ||
| Links added. | Jan 26, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Famous Authors - Richard Wright. | Jun 20, 2021 | ||
| Added the novel The Man Who Lived Underground. | Apr 21, 2021 | ||
| Changed “black” to “Black.” | Sep 25, 2020 | ||
| Replaced photograph. | Apr 11, 2018 | ||
| Add new Web site: BlackPast - Biography of Richard Wright. | May 26, 2014 | ||
| Add new Web site: The Encyclopedia of Arkansas History and Culture - Biography of Richard Nathaniel Wright. | May 26, 2014 | ||
| Add new Web site: African American Registry - Biography of Richard Wright. | May 26, 2014 | ||
| Add new Web site: University at Buffalo - Department of Mathematics - Richard Wright. | Sep 07, 2012 | ||
| Add new Web site: The University of North Carolina at Pembroke - Biography of Richard Wright. | Jul 26, 2012 | ||
| Add new Web site: Fact Monster - People - Biography of Richard Wright. | Oct 14, 2011 | ||
| Add new Web site: ThinkQuest - Biography of Richard Wright. | Oct 14, 2011 | ||
| Add new Web site: Modern American Poetry - Biography of Richard Wright. | Oct 14, 2011 | ||
| Add new Web site: The University of Mississippi - Biography of Richard Wright. | Oct 14, 2011 | ||
| Add new Web site: Spartacus Educational - Biography of Richard Wright. | Oct 14, 2011 | ||
| Added Hazel Rowley's Richard Wright: The Life and Times. | Jul 23, 2009 | ||
| Added posthumous publication of Rite of Passage and A Father's Law. | Jul 23, 2009 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | May 04, 1999 |
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