
Richard Wright
Author · 28 books
Richard Nathaniel Wright was an African-American author of powerful, sometimes controversial novels, short stories and non-fiction. Much of his literature concerned racial themes. His work helped redefine discussions of race relations in America in the mid-20th century. Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name. See this thread for more information.
Books

The Ethics of Living Jim Crow
An Autobiographical Sketch
2005

The Man Who Lived Underground
1942

White Man, Listen!
1957

Native Son, Full length play, Drama
2011

Black Boy
1945

Haiku
This Other World
1998

Savage Holiday
1994

Rite of Passage
1993

Injustice
Vintage Minis
2018

Richard Wright
Early Works
1991
Poems for Notre Dame
2020

Native Son by Richard Nathaniel Wright
2026

Eight Men
1961

The Long Dream
1958

Lawd Today!
1963

Pagan Spain
1957

Native Son
1940

12 Million Black Voices
1969

Seeing Into Tomorrow
Haiku
2018

The Outsider
1953

The Color Curtain
1956

A Father's Law
2008

Black Power
1954

The Man Who Was Almost a Man
1979

American Hunger
1977

Uncle Tom's Children
1938

Richard Wright
Later Works
1991

Black Power
Three Books from Exile: Black Power; The Color Curtain; and White Man, Listen!
1974