Richard Wright’s works are not just historical artifacts; they are living documents that continue to speak to the realities of race, power, and identity in America. In 2025, as the country ...

On the Shelf. The Man Who Lived Underground. By Richard Wright Library of America: 240 pages, $23 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees ...

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.

Richard Wright, Author, David Diaz, Illustrator Harper Teen $6.99 (160p) ISBN 978-0-06-447111-4. This posthumously published novella depicts the brutal conditions facing young African American men ...

We speak to Julia Wright, daughter of the acclaimed Black author Richard Wright, who called Elaine home and wrote about his great-uncle Silas Hoskins’s lynching in Elaine three years prior in 1916.

Lauren Michele Jackson on Richard Wright’s “The Man Who Lived Underground,” from 1941, which was first published as a short story but which has now been published in its full novel form, for ...

The author of “Native Son” wrote “The Man Who Lived Underground” 80 years ago. His publisher turned it down. Be thankful someone had second thoughts.

Richard Wright, who died in 1960, is the author of “Native Son” and “Black Boy.” When he submitted “The Man Who Lived Underground,” he said, “I have never written anything in my life ...

Critics pushed the Native Son author Richard Wright to sublimate the racism he portrayed. The Pulitzer Prize–winning writer Edith Wharton could never quite discover where inspiration stemmed from.

By Richard Wright 228 pp. Library of America. $22.95. A version of this article appears in print on , Page 9 of the Sunday Book Review with the headline: One Nation, Invisible .