Richard Wright (1908-1960)
Photograph by Gordon Parks, May 1943.
(Farm Security Administration-
Office of War Information Photograph Collection,
Library of Congress)

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This page covers the author of Native Son.

For other authors named Richard Wright, see the disambiguation page.

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Works by Richard Wright

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Native Son 4,453 copies, 44 reviews
Black Boy 2,694 copies, 34 reviews
Uncle Tom's Children 372 copies
Richard Wright: Early Works: Lawd Today! / Uncle Tom's Children / Native… 200 copies, 1 review
The Outsider 198 copies, 2 reviews
Richard Wright: Later Works: Black Boy [American Hunger] / The Outsider 178 copies
Eight Men 156 copies
Native Son (Abridged) 114 copies, 1 review
American Hunger 84 copies
Rite of Passage 83 copies
Haiku 81 copies, 4 reviews
12 Million Black Voices 70 copies, 1 review
The Long Dream 57 copies
Pagan Spain 53 copies

A Father's Law 52 copies

Lawd Today! 46 copies, 3 reviews

Savage Holiday 40 copies, 1 review

White Man, Listen! 30 copies

Black Power: Three Books from Exile: Black Power; The Color Curtain; and… 26 copies

Black Power: A Record of Reactions in a Land of Pathos 22 copies, 1 review

Native Son / Black Boy 17 copies

Richard Wright Reader 17 copies

Richard Wright's Black Boy 16 copies

The Color Curtain: A Report on the Bandung Conference 13 copies

Native Son: The Biography of a Young American: A Play in Eleven Scenes to… 6 copies

Richard Wright's Native Son & Black Boy (Barron's Book Notes) 5 copies

Bright and morning star 5 copies

Eight Men Speak and Other Plays from the Canadian Workers Theatre 5 copies

Almos' A Man 4 copies

Readings on Native Son (Greenhaven Press Literary Companion Series) 3 copies

Richard Wright (Bloom's Modern Critical Views) 3 copies

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Also by Richard Wright

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The Best American Essays of the Century (Contributor) 402 copies, 5 reviews
Race, Class, and Gender in the United States: An Integrated Study (Contributor, some editions) 267 copies
An American Album: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Harper's Magazine (Contributor) 104 copies
Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City (Introduction, some editions) 93 copies, 1 review
The Mark Twain Anthology: Great Writers on His Life and Work (Contributor) 66 copies
Go The Way Your Blood Beats: An Anthology of Lesbian and Gay Fiction by… (Contributor) 43 copies
America on Stage : Ten Great Plays of American History (Contributor) 14 copies

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