Richard Wright, Author HarperCollins Publishers $12.95 (151p) ISBN 978-0-06-023419-5
Very much in the vein of Wright's classic Native Son and Black Boy , this posthumously published novella provides a brutal depiction of conditions facing young African American men in 1940s Harlem. Fifteen-year-old Johnny Gibbs, a successful student
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Richard Wright, Author, Peter Francis James, Performed by , read by Peter Francis James. Caedmon $39.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-145783-8
Wright's classic 1940 novel about a young African-American man who murders a white woman in 1930s Chicago is a truly remarkable literary accomplishment. Peter Francis James has never been better, bringing the character of Bigger Thomas to life...
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Richard Wright, Author, David Diaz, Illustrator Harper Teen $6.99 (160p) ISBN 978-0-06-447111-4
This posthumously published novella depicts the brutal conditions facing young African American men in 1940s Harlem. Though written more than 50 years ago, its portrayals of crime, alienation and adolescent disillusionment remain ``highly relevant,''
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Richard Wright, Author, Yodhinobu Hakatuni, Author, Yoshinobu Hakatuni, Editor Arcade Publishing $23.5 (320p) ISBN 978-1-55970-445-8
Author of 20th-century classics Native Son and Black Boy, Wright, while exiled in France, wrote over 4000 haiku in the 18 months before his death in 1960. Based on a manuscript at Yale's Beineke library, this volume reproduces Wright's own selection
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Richard Wright, Author, Edwin Rosskam, Photographer, David Bradley, Foreword by Thunder's Mouth Press $15.95 (160p) ISBN 978-0-938410-44-7
This long-out-of-print photographic documentary was first published in 1941. The excellent black-and-white picturesby such renowned photographers as Dorothea Lange, Walker Evans, Ben Shahn et al. and culled from the Farm Security Administration...
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Richard Wright, Author . Harper Perennial $14.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-06-134916-4
The centennial of Richard Wright's birth occasions the publication of this still-unfinished crime novel, which Wright was working on when he died in 1960. Ruddy Turner, a black Chicago police officer, is appointed the police chief of a rich...
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Richard B. Wright. Simon & Schuster Canada/Phyllis Bruce Editions, $27.95 (192p) ISBN 978-1-4767-8537-0
Wright, whose novel Clara Callan won both the Giller Prize and a Governor General's Award in 2001, here tells a moving story of second chances, revisiting two characters, James Hillyer and Odette Huard, from his 2007 novel October. In this book,...
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Richard Wright and Nina Crews, illus. by Nina Crews. Millbrook, $19.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-5124-1865-1
Crews pairs sweeping photocollages with a dozen haiku written by Native Son author Wright during the final year of his life (he wrote some 4,000 haiku in total, 800 of which were later published, explains Crews in biographical notes). Candid images...
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Richard Wright. Library of America, $22.95 (238p) ISBN 978-1-59853-676-8
The power and pain of Wright’s writing are evident in this wrenching novel, which was rejected by his publisher in 1942, shortly after the release of Native Son. Fred Daniels, a Black man who lives in an unidentified American city, is on his way...
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