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17%OFFHazel Rowley - Richard Wright - 9780226730387 - V9780226730387
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Richard Wright

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Description for Richard Wright Paperback. Consistently an outsider - a child of the fundamentalist South, a self-taught intellectual, a black man married to a white woman - Richard Wright nonetheless became the unparalleled voice of his time. This title chronicles his journey from a sharecropper's shack in Mississippi to international renown as a writer and outspoken critic of racism. Num Pages: 638 pages, 12 halftones. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 160 x 33. Weight in Grams: 976.
Consistently an outsider - a child of the fundamentalist South with an eighth-grade education, a self-taught intellectual, a black man married to a white woman - Richard Wright nonetheless became the unparalleled voice of his time. The first full-scale biography of the author best known for his searing novels Black Boy and Native Son, Richard Wright: The Life and Times brings the man and his work - in all their complexity and distinction - to vibrant life. Acclaimed biographer Hazel Rowley chronicles Wright's unprecedented journey from a sharecropper's shack in Mississippi to Chicago's South Side to international renown as a ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
638
Condition
New
Number of Pages
638
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226730387
SKU
V9780226730387
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About Hazel Rowley
Hazel Rowley is the author of, most recently, Tete-a-Tete: The Tumultuous Lives and Loves of Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre, which has been translated into twelve languages. During the writing of this book, she was a fellow at the Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research at Harvard, a Rockefeller fellow at the University of Iowa, and a Bunting fellow ... Read more

Reviews for Richard Wright
"Splendid....Richard Wright is well written, prodigiously researched, and nicely paced, a compelling evocation of the man, his craft, and the different worlds through which he moved." - Michael J. Ybarra, Wall Street Journal "A welcome and illuminating work....[Rowley] does an outstanding job....Rich and revealing." - Megan Harlan, San Francisco Chronicle "A magnificent biography, subtle and insightful....Rowley writes with style and ... Read more

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