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

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

Richard Wright (1)

This page covers the author of Native Son.

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

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TitleCopiesReviewsRatingsAverageMedianStd. dev.
Native Son4,453448283.924.000.99
Black Boy2,694344473.974.000.96
Uncle Tom's Children372 423.984.000.71
The Best American Essays of the Century4025383.824.000.90
The Outsider1982274.284.500.77
Haiku814213.954.000.86
Eight Men156 203.934.000.84
Native Son (Abridged)1141164.344.250.68
Richard Wright: Early Works: Lawd Today! / Uncle Tom's Children / Native Son2001124.084.001.20
12 Million Black Voices701114.144.501.00
American Hunger84 84.565.000.58
Richard Wright: Later Works: Black Boy [American Hunger] / The Outsider178 84.885.000.33
An American Album: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Harper's Magazine104 84.444.750.68
The Long Dream57 73.714.001.06
Rite of Passage83 63.253.501.22
Lawd Today!46363.583.750.93
A Father's Law52 54.204.500.68
Pagan Spain53 53.904.000.80
Savage Holiday40142.132.001.14
Richard Wright's Black Boy16 33.003.000.82
The Mark Twain Anthology: Great Writers on His Life and Work66 24.504.500.50
The Color Curtain: A Report on the Bandung Conference13 23.753.750.25
Haiku: The Last Poems of an American Icon2 15.005.00 
Native Son: The Biography of a Young American: A Play in Eleven Scenes to Be Performed Without Intermission6 14.504.50 
The man who lived underground (L'Homme Qui Vivait Sous Terre)2 15.005.00 
Black Power: Three Books from Exile: Black Power; The Color Curtain; and White Man, Listen! (P.S.)26 14.504.50 
White Man, Listen!30 13.003.00 
ELEVEN MODERN SHORT NOVELS3113.003.00 
Black Power: A Record of Reactions in a Land of Pathos22114.004.00 
L'Homme qui a vu l'inondation : Suivi de Là-bas, près de la rivière2 13.503.50 
Native Son / Black Boy17 15.005.00 
Later Works [800's FIC-WRI / Lat]1     
How "Bigger" was born; the story of Native son, one of the most significant novels of our time1     
Native Son [800's FIC-WRI / Nat]1     
Almos' A Man4     
Early Works [800's FIC-WRI / Ear]1     
Richard Wright's Native Son & Black Boy (Barron's Book Notes)5     
Scoperte d'infanzia. Racconto1     
Neli meest : [novellid]1     
America on Stage : Ten Great Plays of American History14     
Fame americana3     
Bright and morning star5     
Eight Men Speak and Other Plays from the Canadian Workers Theatre5     
[Video] Richard Wright's Almos' A Man1     
Go The Way Your Blood Beats: An Anthology of Lesbian and Gay Fiction by African-American Writers43     
Richard Wright Reader17     
Nigger1     
Ghetto negro2     
Richard Wright (Bloom's Modern Critical Views)3     
Readings on Native Son (Greenhaven Press Literary Companion Series)3     
Richard Wright's Black Boy (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations)2     
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Såsom en eldstod1     
Richard Wright: Works3     
Spark Notes Native Son2     

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