Richard Wright
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Review of Black Boy by Richard Wright
A harrowing memoir of a sensitive artist. Having read most of Wright’s books by now, I wasn’t expecting to be blown over by this as I was.Memoirs don’t often strike home for me, but this may be my favorite of the handful I’ve read.A rounded picture of the author is…
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Review of The Man Who Lived Underground by Richard Wright
A posthumously published novel by Wright, who told this story in his collection Eight Men. The expanded version is full of pathos and rage. Injustice in America was nowhere better elaborated than this author’s poignant works.This makes for a great shorter foray into the awful relations between races at this…
L. S. Popovich 