An omnibus collection of the American writer's works includes selections from his essays, short stories, reviews, letters, and poetry and long excerpts from his novels and autobiography

Richard Wright Reader

Literature & Fiction

WRIGHT, Richard

Literary

Harpercollins

An omnibus collection of the American writer's works includes selections from his essays, short stories, reviews, letters, and poetry and long excerpts from his novels and autobiography

Science & Math

Nature & Ecology

Black Boy: A Record of Childhood and Youth

Traces the author's coming of age in the Jim Crow-era South, a period during which he struggled to survive while journeying from innocence to adulthood.

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Native Son

Dramas & Plays

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American Hunger

Harper & Row, New York

A newly discovered, previously unpublished novella by the late author of Native Son details the disruption in Johnny Gibbs's life upon discovering he is a foster child, when, in rebellion, he joins a Harlem street gang, thereby abandoning his childhood.

Rite of Passage

Teen & Young Adult

When fifteen-year-old Johnny Gibbs is told that he is really a foster child, he runs off into the streets of Harlem and meets up with a gang that wants him to participate in a mugging

United States

Now an HBO Film!
“If one had to identify the single most influential shaping force in modern Black literary history, one would probably have to point to Wright and the publication of Native Son.” – Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Right from the start, Bigger Thomas had been headed for jail. It could have been for assault or petty larceny; by chance, it was for murder and rape. Native Son tells the story of this young black man caught in a downward spiral after he kills a young white woman in a brief moment of panic.
Set in Chicago in the 1930s, Richard Wright's powerful novel is an unsparing reflection on the poverty and feelings of hopelessness experienced by people in inner cities across the country and of what it means to be black in America.
This abridged edition of Native Son reprints the original edition from 1940. It also includes an essay by Wright, How "Bigger" was Born, as well as an afterword by John Reilly.

Native Son (Abridged)

Harper Perennial Modern Classics

The Outsider

Wright presents a compelling story of a black man's attempt to escape his past and start anew in Harlem. Cross Damon is a man at odds with society and with himself, a man who hungers for peace but who brings terror and destruction wherever he goes.
As Maryemma Graham writes in her Introduction to this edition, with its restored text established by the Library of America, "The Outsider is Richard Wright's second installment in a story of epic proportions, a complex master narrative designed to show American racism in raw and ugly terms ... The stories of Bigger Thomas ... and Cross Damon bear an uncanny resemblance to many contemporary cases of street crime and violence. There is also a prophetic note in Wright's construction of the criminal mind as intelligent, introspective, and transformative."
In addition to the Introduction by Maryemma Graham, this edition includes a notes section by Arnold Rampersad.

HarpPeren

Set in the American Deep South, each of the powerful novellas collected here concerns an aspect of the lives of black people in the postslavery era, exploring their resistance to white racism and oppression. Published in 1938, this was the first book from Wright, who would continue on to worldwide fame as the author of the novels Native Son and Black Boy.

Uncle Tom's Children

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Richard Wright Reader

Richard Wright Reader

Black Boy: A Record of Childhood and Youth

Native Son

American Hunger

Rite of Passage

Rite of Passage

Native Son (Abridged)

The Outsider

Uncle Tom's Children