wright, richard

A collection of poems by Richard Wright with illustrations by Nina Crews. Includes a short biography of the author.

Chronicles the life and career of African American author Richard Wright, who wrote about racial discrimination and injustice in the mid-1900s.

A collection of poems by Richard Wright with illustrations by Nina Crews. Includes a short biography of the author.

A biography of Richard Wright, author of the acclaimed 1940 novel "Native Son," tracing his journey from his birth in a sharecropper's shack in Mississippi to international fame as a writer and activist against racism.

"Through a diversity of primary source resources that include works by politicians and literary figures, book reviews, and interviews, this book enables student readers to better understand literature of the Great Depression in context through original documents; provides readers with an understanding of the great cultural issues of life in America in the 1930s; integrates and aligns material for the ELA Common Core Standards and American literature and social studies curriculum, supplying useful tools to support literary works--analysis, history, document excerpts, discussion questions, and areas for study; places three of the most significant writers of the decade within the sources of turmoil that affected their fiction; enables readers to construct their own visions of how three great writers represented the changing aspects of American culture in that era"--Provided by publisher.

The author relates his life as an African American growing up in the South during the Jim Crow years.

Richard Wright grew up in the woods of Mississippi. He endured a difficult childhood in the Jim Crow South.

Celebrating the centennial of Wright's birth, each deluxe classic is a special edition with French flaps, rough fronts, and covers printed on uncoated stock.

An examination and study of the novel Native son and why it holds a singular position in American literature.