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Author Biography:

Richard Nathan Wright was born September 4, 1908 in Roxie, Mississippi (not far from Nachez), the son of Nathan Wright, an illiterate sharecropper, and Ella Wilson Wright, a schoolteacher, and the grandson of slaves. In 1911 Ella takes Wright and barely one year old brother Leon Alan to Natchez to live with her family and the father later joins them and finds work in a sawmill. In 1913, the four Wrights moved to Memphis, Tennessee. But within a year, Nathan deserts them for another woman and Ella works as a cook to support the family. More... (© Snally Gaster)

Websites about Richard Wright

• Richard Wright
  A well-maintained and elaborate resource on Richard Wright and his life
  http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAwrightR.htm (Spartacus Educational; )
  
  
• Richard Wright (1908-1960) by Bill Mullen
  Part of Modern American Poetry, a multimedia companion to Anthology of Modern American Poetry (Oxford University Press)
  http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/s_z/r_wright/r_wright.htm (University of Illinois; )
  
  
• Richard Nathaniel Wright by the Federal Bureau of Investigation
  This famous writer was investigated by the FBI for being a member of the communist party between 1932-1942. He left the party in 1942 because of ideological disputes.
  http://foia.fbi.gov/rnwright.htm (FBI, )
  
  
• Richard Wright (1908-1960) by Ty Hadman
  Richard Wright wrote more than 4,000 Haiku poems.
  http://www.ahapoetry.com/PP1200..htm (AHA!; )
  
  

Biographies

• Richard Wright: The Life And Times by Hazel Rowley
  Reviewed by Robert Fleming
  http://www.findarticles.com/cf_0/m0HST/1_4/82511086/p1/article.jhtml?term=richard+wright (Black Issues Book Review; )