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- NAME: Richard Wright
- OCCUPATION: Journalist, Author, Poet
- BIRTH DATE: September 04, 1908
- DEATH DATE: November 28, 1960
- PLACE OF BIRTH: Roxie, Mississippi
- PLACE OF DEATH: Paris, France
- Full Name: Richard Nathaniel Wright
- AKA: Richard Wright
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Pioneering African-American writer Richard Wright is best known for the classic texts Black Boy and Native Son.
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He continued to write novels, including The Outsider (1953) and The Long Dream (1958), and nonfiction, such as Black Power (1954) and White Man, Listen! (1957), and was regarded by many writers as an inspiration. His naturalistic fiction no longer has the standing it once enjoyed, but his life and works remain exemplary.
Wright died of a heart attack on November 28, 1960 in Paris, France.
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