Richard Wright Selected Works

Although his school was sporadic, Richard Wright established himself as an important American writer, who gave voice to the African-American experience. Wright is famous for works like Native Son, Black Boy, How Bigger Was Born, and many other works. Here's a selected list of works by Richard Wright.

• Uncle Tom's Children (1938)
  
  
• Native Son (1940)
  
  
• How Bigger Was Born (1940)
  
  
• Twelve Million Black Voices (1941)
  
  
• The Negro and Parkway Community House (1941)
  
  
• Native Son, play (1941)
  
  
• The Man Who Lived Underground (1942-44)
  
  
• Black Boy (1945)
  
  
• The God That Failed (1950)
  
  
• Native Son, screenplay (1951)
  
  
• The Outsider (1953)
  
  
• Savage Holiday (1954)
  
  
• Black Power (1954)
  
  
• The Color Curtain (1956)
  
  
• Pagan Spain (1957)
  
  
• White Man, Listen! (1957)
  
  
• The Long Dream (1958)
  
  
• Daddy Goodness (1959)
  
  
• Eight Men (1961)
  
  
• Lawd Today (1963)
  
  
• Letters to Joe C. Brown (1968)
  
  
• What the Negro Wants (1972)
  
  
• Farthing Fortunes (1976)
  
  
• American Hunger (1977)