| LC control no. | n 80036620 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| LC classification | PS3545.R815 |
| Personal name heading | Wright, Richard, 1908-1960 |
| Variant(s) | Raĭt, Richard, 1908-1960 Raiṭ, Rits'ard, 1908-1960 רייט, ריצ׳רד רייט, ריצ׳רד, 1908־1960 رتشارد رايت رايت، رتشارد Rāyt, Rīchārd, 1908-1960 راىت، رىچارد |
| Associated country | United States |
| Associated place | France Argentina Spain |
| Located | New York (N.Y.) |
| Birth date | 1908-09-04 |
| Death date | 1960-11-28 |
| Place of birth | Roxie (Miss.) |
| Place of death | Paris (France) |
| Field of activity | Poetry Fiction Essay |
| Affiliation | Communist Party of America United States. Work Projects Administration Federal Writers' Project Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration in the State of Illinois |
| Profession or occupation | Actors Novelists Poets |
| Special note | Machine-derived non-Latin script reference project. Non-Latin script references not evaluated. |
| Found in | Uncle Tom's children ... 1938. Richard Wright, a collection of critical essays, c1984: CIP title page (Richard Wright) galley (Richard Nathaniel Wright) Ben-kushim, 1961: title page (Rits'ard Raiṭ) Rite of passage, c1994: title page (Richard Wright) jkt. (b. 1908, near Natchez, Mississippi; expatriated himself to Paris; d. 1960) Wikipedia, Nov. 22, 2013 (Richard Nathaniel Wright (Sep. 4, 1908, at Plantation, Roxie, Mississippi - Nov. 28, 1960, Paris) was an African-American author of sometimes controversial novels, short stories, poems, and non-fiction. Much of his literature concerns racial themes, especially those involving the plight of African Americans during the late 19th to mid-20th centuries. His work helped change race relations in the United States in the mid-20th century) <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Wright_%28author%29> African American National Biography, accessed September 23, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Wright, Richard; Richard Nathaniel Wright; fiction writer; born 04 September 1908 in Adams County, Mississippi, United States; pressured to join the Communist Party (1934); left the party and became an outspoken anti-Communist (1944); supervisor, Illinois Writers Project (Federal Writers Project); influenced by Marxism and the Chicago School of Sociology; won a national competition of WPA writers for his collection of short stories Uncle Tom's Children (1938); Guggenheim Fellowship allowed him to work full-time on his novel Native Son (1939-1940); he left the United States in 1949 to live and work in Argentina, Spain, France and other countries; known as the first African American writer to enter mainstream American literature; died 28 November 1960 in Paris, France) Taʻṭīlāt-i vaḥshatzā, 1965: t.p. (رىچارد راىت = Rīchārd Rāyt) |
| Associated language | eng |
| Invalid LCCN | sh 89004209 |
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