TLS, 1940 April 30 : Cuernavaca, Mexico, to Clifford Odets.

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TLS, 1940 April 30 : Cuernavaca, Mexico, to Clifford Odets.

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Wright says: "I'm sorry that I did not get a chance to thank you for your advice on "Native Son." You see, the reason I wanted your opinion is that I've been literally hounded by people wanting to make a play out of the book. I know ... nothing of the theatre and needed a word of someone like you to set my mind at rest."

1/2 p. ; 28 x 22 cm.

Copley Press, J S Copley Library

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Copley Press, J S Copley Library

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Odets, Clifford, 1906-1963

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Playwright; New York, N.Y. From the description of Clifford Odets sketches. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 42743828 Clifford Odets was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1906. He left school at age fourteen and worked as an actor in local New York theater groups and traveling stock companies until 1930. That same year the Group Theatre was formed. As one of the founding members, Odets continued acting, but found new release for his creativity in writing pl...

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)....