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• Physical Description: 443 pages. : illustrations. ; 24 cm
• Publisher: New York : Putnam, [1968]

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Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 423-429) and index.

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"It's them goddamn rebels..." -- Richard is born, 1908 -- Memphis, Tennessee, dread and distrust... -- Terror... some natural force -- A somberness of spirit -- The white South has never known me... -- Chicago seemed an unreal city... -- "...as though offering libations of forgiveness to my environment." -- All my life I had been full of a hunger for a new way to live... -- New York, 1937 -- I love my people... -- Native son -- Dhima or Ellen? -- Ellen and Julia -- Black boy -- How many understand how they make us feel and live... -- World War II -- To live in this land is to breath poison each day... -- Dear Richard, It is obvious that you and I are the only two geniuses of this era... Gertrude Stein -- I feel certain that she knows already much more than she knows she knows... -- But I am filled with the details of living... -- I choose exile... -- I must make this film... -- The black existentialist and the white Freudian... -- Black Power... -- Pagan Spain -- I want to assume an attitude that places me wholly on the side of feeling in life... -- Island of hallucination... -- We fret, we feel frustrated, but things are moving on the broad scale. We must never forget that...

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Wright, Richard, 1908-1960.
Authors, American > 20th century > Biography.
African American authors > Biography.

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Biographies.