Hailed as \'the father of black literature in the twentieth century\', Richard Wright was an iconoclast, an intellectual of towering stature, whose multidisciplinary erudition rivals only that of W.
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Individual essays examine Wright\'s art as central to his intellectual life and shed new light on his classic texts - Native Son and Black Boy.
This collection captures Wright\'s immense power, which has made him a beacon for writers across decades, from the civil rights era to today.
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Hailed as \'the father of black literature in the twentieth century\', Richard Wright was an iconoclast, an intellectual of towering stature, whose multidisciplinary erudition rivals only that of W