108th birthday of Richard Wright

(Born 4 September 1908, near Natchez, Miss, US)

Prolific novelist, poet, dramatist, essayist – author of, among others, The Ethics of Living Jim Crow (1937), Uncle Tom’s Children (1938) Native Son (1940), Black Boy (1945), I Choose Exile (1951), The Outsider (1953), The Color Curtain (1956), White Man, Listen! (1957) and American Hunger (1977)

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