Happy Birthday, Richard Wright Its the birthday of the man who said, The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination. Thats writer Richard Wright (books by this author), born on a plantation near Natchez, Mississippi (1908). Hes the author of Black Boy (1945), White Man, Listen! (1957), and American Hunger (1997), as well as a number of short stories and a volume of haiku. But hes best known for his novel Native Son (1940), about a black man named Bigger Thomas who gets a job as a chauffeur for beautiful young white woman and accidentally kills her. Native Son was a huge best-seller when it came out, and was soon afterward made into a Broadway musical. Its now required reading at many high schools across the country.
Posted on: Thu, 04 Sep 2014 14:15:04 +0000