RichardWright

• Personal Life He was born in Natchez, Mississippi on Sept 4, 1908. His father was a sharecropper and his mother was a very educated school teacher. They were a very poor family so they had to move to Memphis when he was six years old. His father left the family for another women and his mother had to get a job as a cook and Richard had to go to an orphange. Then his mother had a stroke and they had to move back to Jackson where his grandmother lived. Richard and his brother got slit up by the family his brother went up north with his aunt and Richard stayed with his uncle. But he did not like it there so he moved back to Jackson to be with his mother. He also had little jobs to take care of his mother and himself. • Professional Life RIchard started going to literary meetings at the John Reed Club. He meets alot of important people at the club, then later on that year he joined the Amercian Communist Party. His poems and short stories are accepted by various left wing journals. His Poem, Between the World and Me and one of his short story Big Boy Leaves Home was based on a true story about a man that Richard seen when he was growing up. When he moved to New York he became Harlem editor of Daily Worker. Uncle Tom's Children was about racism in the United States and was published in 1940. His novel the Native Sun was slected in the book of the mouth club in the March Selection. His last novel was The Last Dream and was published in 1958 • Major works The Black Boy, Uncle Tom's Children, Native Sun, The Outsider, A Red Love Note, I Have Seen Black Hands, Rise And Live, Between The World And Me • Awards won He was the first African American writer to achieve literary fame and fortune. • Period and/or Style He mostly writes about thing that he went throught in his childhood life. He also writes about thing that he seen in his childhood days and things that he seen growing up. • Favorite Themes