Richard Wright letter to E. Ording, 1940 Apr. 29.

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Richard Wright letter to E. Ording, 1940 Apr. 29.

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In a typewritten letter composed 29 April 1940 in Cuernavaca, Mexico, Richard Wright agrees to autograph a copy of his novel [letter originally laid into a copy of Native son] for Mr. E. Ording of New York City. Wright includes instructions for shipping the novel to him in Mexico.

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Ording, E.,

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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)....