Richard Wright

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African American writer essayist novelist person short story writer

Richard Wright was a pioneering 20th-century African American author whose powerful novels and essays, such as "Native Son" and "Black Boy," exposed the brutal realities of racism and profoundly shaped later Black writers and intellectuals.

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Label	Occurrences
Richard Wright canonical	27
Richard Nathaniel Wright	1

Statements (51)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	African American writer ⓘ essayist ⓘ novelist ⓘ person ⓘ short story writer ⓘ
awardReceived	Spingarn Medal ⓘ
burialPlace	Père Lachaise Cemetery ⓘ
causeOfDeath	heart attack ⓘ
child	Julia Wright ⓘ
countryOfCitizenship	United States of America ⓘ
dateOfBirth	1908-09-04 ⓘ
dateOfDeath	1960-11-28 ⓘ
ethnicGroup	Black Americans ⓘ surface form: African American
familyName	Wright ⓘ
fullName	Richard Wright self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Richard Nathaniel Wright
genre	protest literature ⓘ social realism ⓘ
givenName	Richard ⓘ
influenced	African American literature ⓘ surface form: African-American literature James Baldwin ⓘ Ralph Ellison ⓘ Richard Baldwin ⓘ Toni Morrison ⓘ
influencedBy	Fyodor Dostoevsky ⓘ Gertrude Stein ⓘ H. L. Mencken ⓘ W. E. B. Du Bois ⓘ
languageOfWorkOrName	English ⓘ
memberOf	Communist Party USA ⓘ
movement	African American literature ⓘ surface form: African-American literature Harlem Renaissance ⓘ existentialism ⓘ
notableIdea	critique of systemic racism in the United States ⓘ
notableWork	Black Boy ⓘ Black Power ⓘ Native Son ⓘ The Outsider ⓘ Uncle Tom's Children ⓘ
occupation	essayist ⓘ journalist ⓘ novelist ⓘ writer ⓘ
placeOfBirth	Roxie, Mississippi, United States ⓘ
placeOfDeath	Paris ⓘ surface form: Paris, France
residence	Chicago, Illinois, United States ⓘ New York City ⓘ surface form: New York City, United States Paris ⓘ surface form: Paris, France
spouse	Dhima Rose Meadman ⓘ Ellen Poplar ⓘ
subjectOf	film adaptation of "Native Son" ⓘ literary criticism and scholarship ⓘ

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Chicago Black Renaissance → hasNotableFigure → Richard Wright ⓘ

Claude McKay → influenced → Richard Wright ⓘ

Theodore Dreiser → influenced → Richard Wright ⓘ

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this entity surface form: Richard Nathaniel Wright

Ralph Ellison → influencedBy → Richard Wright ⓘ

South Side Writers Group → notableMember → Richard Wright ⓘ

Negro Story magazine → notableContributor → Richard Wright ⓘ

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Margaret Walker → wroteAbout → Richard Wright ⓘ

Farrar, Straus and Giroux → hasPublished → Richard Wright ⓘ

Southern Renaissance → hasNotableAuthor → Richard Wright ⓘ

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Roxie, Mississippi, United States → hasNotablePerson → Richard Wright ⓘ

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subject surface form: Roxie, Mississippi

Native Son → author → Richard Wright ⓘ

Black Boy → author → Richard Wright ⓘ

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Uncle Tom's Children → author → Richard Wright ⓘ

The Outsider → author → Richard Wright ⓘ

Black Power → author → Richard Wright ⓘ

Ellen Poplar → spouse → Richard Wright ⓘ

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Dhima Rose Meadman → spouse → Richard Wright ⓘ

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Julia Wright → father → Richard Wright ⓘ