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041			_aeng
082			_a813.52 _bROW
100			_aRowley, Hazel
245		0	_aRichard Wright : the life and times _c/ Hazel Rowley
260			_bUniversity Of Chicago Press, 2008
300			_a x, 626 pages : ill. ; 23 cm
504			_aBib and Ref
520			_aBorn in Mississippi in 1908, the grandson of former slaves, Richard Wright spent his teenage years chopping wood, carrying coal, scrubbing floors, and enduring a thousand indignities. Later in his work, he raised profoundly disturbing questions about the "nightmarish jungle" of race relations in contemporary America, offering profoundly pessimistic answers in return. Wright had a large readership--even, for a time, a place on the bestseller lists and the top income-tax bracket. But, because he had joined the Communist Party as a young man, he was accused of anti-Americanism and even suspected of spying for Moscow and his books were banned in several states and cities. Eventually, a prophet without honor, he left his native country and lived out the rest of his years in France, where he is buried
650			_a Wright, Richard, 1908- 1960
650			_aAuthors, American 20th century Biography
650			_aAfrican American authors Biography
942			_cENGLISH
999			_c566961 _d566961