Correspondence and photographs, 1938-1957.

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Correspondence and photographs, 1938-1957.

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The Artine Artinian Collection includes one letter from Wright dated 1939. The Prudencio de Pereda Papers include one letter from Wright, dated 1938. The Harper & Row Archive includes two letters from Wright, 1944-1945, and four letters to Wright, 1946-1957. The Willard Maas Collection includes ten letters from Wright, 1939-1941 and nd. The HRHRC Photography Collection also contains two photographs of Wright taken by Carl van Vechten, nd.

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Wright, Richard, 1908-1960

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Richard Nathaniel Wright was born September 4, 1908 near Natchez, Mississippi, to Ella Wilson Wright, a schoolteacher, and Nathan Wright, a sharecropper. The story of Richard Wright's childhood, with its harrowing episodes of abandonment by his father, his temporary consignment to an orphanage after his mother became ill, and his short-lived schooling under the harsh guardianship of his grandmother have been detailed in his autobiography, Black Boy (published in 1945 by Harper & Row)....