HEY! WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT RICHARD WRIGHT?
1. His full name is Richard Nathaniel Wright
2. He was born on 14th September, 1908
3. He died on 28th November, 1960
4. He was an African American author
5. He wrote mostly on Racism and Class discrimination
6. His place of birth is Natchez Mississippi
7. His most popular work is a collection of short stories titled Uncle Tom's Children
8. His novel Black Boy is an Autobiography. It tells about Richard's life from 1912-1936
9. He wrote and published his first story at age 15, "The Voodoo of Hell's Half Acre."
10. He was a communist
11. The FBI had him under surveillance from 1943
12. Wright move to France in 1946
13. In 1953, Wright traveled to the Gold Coast (now Ghana)
14. He contracted amoebic dysentery during the time he spent in the Gold Coast in 1957 and became very ill on June 26, 1959
15. He was interested in cultural studies, he wrote a book on the Indonesian cultures during his brief stay in Indonesia
16. He revolted against America and so much hated America. Even when he had financial problems, he refused to join in the programs done on the Canadian radio because he suspected American control
17. Wright's very last public appearance as a healthy man was on the 8th of November, 1960 in a polemical lecture, "The Situation of the Black Artist and Intellectual in the United States."
18. He died at age 52 in Paris of a heart attack
19. His daughter Julia Wright continues to claim that Richard (her father) was murdered
20. He wrote over 4000 poems in the last days of his life
21. His first wife is Dhimah Rose Meidman and the marriage lasted a year. He married Ellen Poplar in 1941
22. He had two daughters - Rachel (1949) and Julia (1942)
23. His wife Ellen died at age 92 in 2004
24. His best selling work remains Black Boy
25. His works have won many awards.
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