![]() Wright moved to Paris in 1946, and lived there, primarily, until his death in 1960. Wright’s Black Boy, a somewhat fictionalized tale of his young life, was released in 1945 and added to his fame. Wright joined, for a time, the Communist Party in Chicago, and after writing a first novel ( Lawd Today, eventually published in 1963), he moved to New York City in 1937 and wrote, in 19, respectively, the short-story collection Uncle Tom’s Children and the novel Native Son, which launched his career. As a young man, Wright read widely in modern English and American literature, as well as translated literature from continental Europe. One of Wright’s jobs in Chicago was mail sorter at the Post Office. Having performed well academically until he was forced, in high school, to drop out and begin working, Wright relocated, in 1927, to Chicago-a city that would allow Wright to develop as a writer and thinker, and in which his novel Native Son was based. His father left the family when Wright was a child, and his mother worked a series of menial jobs before suffering strokes between 19, requiring medical care for the rest of her life. ![]() ![]() Richard Wright was born in rural Mississippi, lived for a time near Memphis, Tennessee, and Jackson, Mississippi, and was raised mostly by female relatives in his extended family. ![]()
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