Richard Wright
Subtitle: the life and times
By: Hazel Rowley.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co.
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 626
Subjects: Wright, Richard, 1908-1960.; Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.; African American authors -- Biography.
Genres: Biography.
Description: ""How in hell did you happen?" the Chicago sociologist Robert Park once asked Richard Wright. Hazel Rowley shows how, chronicling with the dramatic drive of a novel Wright's extraordinary journey from a sharecropper's shack in Mississippi to international renown as a writer, fiercely independent thinker, and outspoken critic of racism.".

"The author draws on recently discovered material to shed new light on Wright's relationships with a variety of women, including Carson McCullers, Gertrude Stein, and his longtime wife, Ellen Poplowitz, and male friends such as Langston Hughes, Nelson Algren, Ralph Ellison, and his occasional critic, James Baldwin. To Simone de Beauvoir and the existentialists it was Richard Wright, more than any other American writer, who was writing the "committed literature" they admired."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [593]-595) and index.
"A John Macrae book."