* Richard Wright - Collected Fiction and Non-Fiction (26 books)

RICHARD WRIGHT (1908 – 1960) was a novelist, short-story writer and essayist who became one of the most influential African American writers of the 20th century.  Ernest Hemingway once wrote that Richard Wright was "forged in injustice as a sword is forged."  Wright's  bestselling debut novel, NATIVE SON (1940), was a literary sensation, and his short stories and non-fiction were searing depictions and critiques of the effects of racism and the ever-present threat of racist violence.

Wright first came to the general public's attention with a volume of novellas, UNCLE TOM'S CHILDREN (1938), in which he asks, "what quality of will must a Negro possess to live and die with dignity in a country that denied his humanity."

Wright's masterpiece, NATIVE SON (1940), became an instant best seller.  The story of Bigger Thomas, a young black man living in the raw, noisy, crowded slums of Chicago's South Side, captured the hopes and yearnings, the pain and rage of black Americans with an unprecedented intensity and vividness.  His acclaimed autobiographical BLACK BOY (1945) is an eloquent account of his struggle to escape a life of poverty, ignorance and fear in his native South.

In 1990, while preparing a two-volume edition of Wright's works, editors at Library of America discovered that significant portions of NATIVE SON and BLACK BOY had been censored at the request of Book-of-the-Month Club.  Some of the more candid passages dealing with race, sex, and politics in Wright's books had been cut or omitted before original publication.  The authoritative Library of America edition, based on Wright's original typescripts and proofs, presented for the first time these and Wright's other major works in the form in which he intended them to be read.  They reveal the full range and power of this achievement as an experimental stylist and as a fiery prophet of the tragic consequences of racism in American society.

After World War II, Wright settled in Paris as a permanent expatriate.  THE OUTSIDER (1953), acclaimed as the first American existential novel, warned that the Black man had awakened in a disintegrating society not ready to include him.  Among his polemical writings of that period was WHITE MAN, LISTEN! (1957), anti-colonialist essays that were originally a series of lectures given in Europe.

Among his works published posthumously were Wright's first novel, LAWD TODAY! (1963), which interweaves news bulletins, songs, exuberant wordplay, and scenes of confrontation and celebration into a kaleidoscopic chronicle of the events of one day in the life of a black Chicago postal worker.  Other posthumously released works included a novella, RITE OF PASSAGE (1994), and an unfinished crime novel, A FATHER'S LAW (2008).  In addition, THE MAN WHO LIVED UNDERGROUND (1941), a previously unpublished novel about race and police violence, was finally released in its entirety in 2021.


The following books are in ePub and/or PDF format:

== LIBRARY OF AMERICA ==

* Richard Wright: Early Works [ed. Rampersad] (LoA, 1991)
* Richard Wright: Later Works [ed. Rampersad] (LoA, 1991)

== FICTION ==

* A Father's Law (HarperCollins, 2008/2023) – ePub + PDF
* Eight Men (Vintage UK, 2021) – ePub
* Lawd Today (Northeastern, 1993) – PDF
* The Long Dream (Northeastern, 2000) – PDF
* The Man Who Lived Underground (HarperCollins, 2021) – ePub
* Native Son (HarperCollins, 2023) – ePub
* The Outsider (HarperCollins, 2023) – ePub
* Rite of Passage (HarperCollins, 1996) – PDF
* Savage Holiday (Phocion, 2019) – ePub
* Uncle Tom's Children: Novellas (HarperCollins, 2023) – ePub

== POETRY ==

* Haiku: This Other World [ed. Hakutani & Tener] (Arcade, 2011) – ePub
* Seeing into Tomorrow: Haiku [illus. Crews] (Millbrook, 2018) – PDF

== DRAMA ==

* Native Son [theatrical adaptation with Paul Green] (Harper, 1941) – PDF

== NON-FICTION ==

* 12 Million Black Voices (Viking, 1941) – PDF
* Black Boy [75th Anniversary edition] (HarperCollins, 2020) – ePub
* Black Power (HarperCollins, 2023) – ePub
* Byline [ed. Bryant] (Missouri, 2015) – PDF
* The Color Curtain [1956], reprinted in "Black Power"
* Conversations with RW [ed. Kinnamon] (Mississippi, 1993) – PDF
* The God that Failed [ed. Crossman] (1949/1963) – PDF [excerpt]
* Indonesian Notebook [ed. Roberts & Foulcher] (Duke, 2016) – PDF
* Pagan Spain (HarperCollins, 2023) – ePub
* White Man, Listen! [1957], reprinted in "Black Power"

== BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ==

* A RW Bibliography [comp. Kinnamon] (Greenwood, 1988) – PDF
* Bibliographical Essay [John Reilly] (1978) – PDF
* RW: A Primary Bibliography [comp. Davis & Fabre] (Hall, 1982) – PDF


SEE ALSO:

* James Baldwin: Fiction, Poetry, Drama and Non-fiction (25 books)
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* Ralph Ellison: Invisible Man and other works (13 books)
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* Langston Hughes: Poetry, Fiction, and Non-fiction (33 books)
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* Toni Morrison: Nobel Prize in Literature, 1993 (28 books)
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* Maya Angelou: Poetry, Autobiographies & Essays (17 books)
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