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He was one of most influential African American writers of the 20th century. But Richard Wright found it hard to talk to his daughter about race.
âItâs like soldiers who go to war and then come back,â Julia Wright, who turns 79 this year, says in a phone interview with the Guardian. âThey donât always find the way to share what they did at war with their family. My father didnât really know how to share the pain about race with me.
âSo he had other ways of doing it. He would leave the doors of his office open so that I could have free range of his books and read everything I wanted to read, and thatâs how I picked up some clues on what he was going through as a black man.â
‘It couldn’t be more relevant’: the unseen Richard Wright novel finally getting its due David Smith in Washington © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Everett Collection Historical/Alamy
He was one of most influential African American writers of the 20th century. But Richard Wright found it hard to talk to his daughter about race.
“It’s like soldiers who go to war and then come back,” Julia Wright, who turns 79 this year, says in a phone interview with the Guardian. “They don’t always find the way to share what they did at war with their family. My father didn’t really know how to share the pain about race with me.
Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune
CHICAGO â Richard Wright, in the winter of 1941, was the most successful Black author in America. Only 14 years earlier, he had made the Great Migration, moving from Memphis to Chicago. He had enrolled in the 10th grade in Hyde Park but quickly dropped out and went to work. He sorted mail for the Chicago post office, and he cared for medical-research animals at what was then Michael Reese Hospital, and he sold insurance policies door-to-door on the South Side. Also, he started to write books, and in 1940, his novel âNative Sonâ was a sensation. As one critic famously presumed, after reading the novelâs blunt force approach to race and poverty, American culture would be changed forever. Wright was a star, and the bestselling author at Harper & Brothers (later HarperCollins), the fabled New York publishing house that claimed the âLittle House on the Prairieâ series and Thornton Wilder, among others.
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