Black Power: Three Books from Exile: Black Power; The Color Curtain; and White Man, Listen! (P.S.)
Richard Wright won international renown for his powerful and visceral depiction of the black experience. He stands today alongside such African-American luminaries as Zora Neale Hurston, James Baldwin, and Toni Morrison, and two of his novels,Native SonandBlack Boy,are required reading in high schools and colleges across the nation. He died in 1960.