Talk:Richard Wright (author)

message: This article should mention somewhere that Wright founded the South Side Writers Group, an influential group of Chicago writers including Lorraine Hansberry, among others.  I would insert the information myself if I knew more about the group.
—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 160.39.252.117 (talk) 03:41, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  South Side Writers Group 

message: Novelist Richard Wright's first autobiographical account, Black Boy, discussed his life before the move to Chicago as opposed to after the move. So, I think that sentence needs to be fixed.
I have been reading blackboy for an english class, and it describes his life before and after the move to Chicago, although the book is divided into two sections
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Removed the word 'unexpectedly' from the final sentence, as it had an 'unexpectedly' comic effect: as in - Richard Wright died in Paris of a heart attack, unexpectedly, at the age of 52. 203.173.49.149 09:07, 3 Jul 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: comment

message: I have materials stating Richard Wright's birth year as 1906.
Can anyone clarify?
:Can you be more specific about the nature of your materials? I've verified the b. date in a couple of places, including the Library of America edition of his complete works. Gamaliel  18:18, 17 Sep 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Age 1 & ?/12 years on 1910 census. Family was boarding at 272 Washington Avenue, Memphis. Also father Nathan was still with the family and brother Allen is 6 months old and born in Mississippi.Javadane 17:24, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Problem with birth date 

message: Black Boy is presented as an autobiogrophy and the library of congress calls it "a classic of American autobiogrophy." Unless anyone has evidence that portions of the book are fabricated, it should read "autobiographical," not "semi-autobiographical."
:You're right about this.  I've read it and I've never read anything about this that indicated it was semi- and not fully autobigraphical. Gamaliel 03:56, 10 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text:  See "Black Boy: Richard Wright's 'Tragic Sense of Life,' " an essay which discusses the fact that "Richard Wright's friends and critics alike persistently remark that Wright did not actually experience a childhood like that depicted in his autobiography." Another source would be "Telling lies in modern American autobiography" by Timothy Dow Adams. For example the scene in which Wright's Uncle Hoskins drives into the Mississippi River is actually an event which happened to Ralph Ellison. This source also discusses the fact that Wright actually delivered an edited version of his own valedictorian speech as a compromise with his junior high school principle. Amy Hungerford, in her Yale literature course "American Novel since 1945" also discusses the falsehoods and exaggerations in Wright's autobiography.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.112.173.3 (talk) 14:26, 26 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Semi Autobiographical" 

message: :The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section. 
The result of the debate was PAGE NOT MOVED -- as there was  no consensus for the move per discussion below. --Philip Baird Shearer 14:59, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Add  # Support  or  # Oppose  on a new line in the appropriate section followed by a brief explanation, then sign your opinion using ~~~~.  Please remember that this survey is not a vote, and please provide an explanation for your recommendation.
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#Oppose for the same reason as last time; proposal still violates WP:COMMONNAME. --SigPig |SEND - OVER 02:43, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

text: I think he should be moved back here. I'd never heard of him until I typed in Richard Wright, looking for the Pink Floyd keyboard player. This seems like yet another example of the attempted americanisation of Wikipedia to me. Jcuk (talk) 12:03, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

text: Add any additional comments:
*How is he shown on his books ?  Do any of them use Nathaniel ? -- Beardo 06:02, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I added him to the agnostics category since his books suggest it.You very nice place 12:28, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move 

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#Oppose for the same reason as last time; proposal still violates WP:COMMONNAME. --SigPig |SEND - OVER 02:43, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I think he should be moved back here. I'd never heard of him until I typed in Richard Wright, looking for the Pink Floyd keyboard player. This seems like yet another example of the attempted americanisation of Wikipedia to me. Jcuk (talk) 12:03, 25 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Survey

message: #Oppose for the same reason as last time; proposal still violates WP:COMMONNAME. --SigPig |SEND - OVER 02:43, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I think he should be moved back here. I'd never heard of him until I typed in Richard Wright, looking for the Pink Floyd keyboard player. This seems like yet another example of the attempted americanisation of Wikipedia to me. Jcuk (talk) 12:03, 25 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Survey - in opposition to the move

message: :Add any additional comments:
*How is he shown on his books ?  Do any of them use Nathaniel ? -- Beardo 06:02, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I added him to the agnostics category since his books suggest it.You very nice place 12:28, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Discussion

message: There are a great deal of sources which claim that Black Boy is not a totally accurate source of biographical information for Richard Wright. An important one is "Telling Lies in Modern American Autobiography" by Timothy Dow Adams, which claims that many of the book's events are fabricated (the Uncle Hoskins event happened to Ralph Ellison) or altered (Wright delivered a compromised version of his junior high school valedictorian speech).
See this link: http://books.google.com/books?id=p6YBbKOR81sC&pg=PA73&lpg=PA73&dq=uncle+hoskins+ralph+ellison&source=bl&ots=--9r76k3NX&sig=I6D_aqaY8wH9wchRSJDqQnDG2kI&hl=en&ei=pGZsStLJM4H8tge25vmaAQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1
The "Early Life" version of the article in particular needs to be altered to reflect this, and biographical information from another source is needed.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.112.173.3 (talk) 14:35, 26 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  ''Black Boy'' as biographical source. 

message: There is a move discussion in progress on Talk:Richard Wright which affects this page. Please participate on that page and not in this talk page section. Thank you.  —RM bot 21:45, 19 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Move discussion in progress

message: The picture of the memorial to Wright in Natchez, MS appears twice; or rather, there are two pictures of the same object in two different sections. Someone should decide which one to keep, and where to put it. 66.41.216.19 (talk) 23:59, 14 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Redundant Picture 

message: I'd really like to know how his work "helped change race relations" in the U.S. Any proof?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.119.151.233 (talk) 07:22, 30 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  "helped change race relations"? Do tell.  

message: Wright is described as being from "Plantation" as if that meant something. Obviously being born on a plantation is meaningful, but that doesn't make it a specific place. I've read this as "Rucker's Plantation" in a Black Boy edition, but I still don't see how that supercedes being from Roxie.
That would be like giving a hometown as "Hospital, New York, New York."  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.220.228.28 (talk) 10:03, 26 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  What is "plantation" 

message: I'm just leaving this as a note in case anybody has the same concern I did... I was Googling about for possible additional references, and I was alarmed to find a lot of the text from this article on Google Books, in what appeared to be an independently self-published book by "Raja Sharma" from 2010. That would have been a messy copyvio to clean up. However, on running a WikiBlame search of the revision history for the term "instant best-seller", I found that that particular text had in fact been composed organically -- there was no tell-tale revision in which the whole section was dumped in.  Further, on comparing the date of that revision to the date of "Sharma's" book as listed on Lulu.com (can't link due to blacklisting), the book is dated 2010-12-28 while the revision is dated 2010-12-01.  
Thus, it appears that large sections of the article were copied into that book in December 2010, rather than the other way around. -- Visviva (talk) 08:02, 3 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  ''An Approach to Richard Wright’s Novels'' (2010) 

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message: I was reviewing this reference (Rayson2) for Wright's early childhood:
* Rayson, Ann. "Richard Wright's Life." Modern American Poetry, Nelson, Cary and Brinkman, Bartholomew, eds. Department of English, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign: 2001.
It was formerly a link to Univ. of Illinois--likely something a professor created, but might be student or grad. student.  The old url points to a different site, so changed it to go directly to the site it was being directed to.  It's unclear to me if this article exists in any form that can be verified, so I tagged the ref with .  Any thoughts? --David Tornheim (talk) 22:57, 12 April 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rayson reference