Richard Nathaniel Wright
(September_4, 1908 - November_28,1960) was an American author of novels and short_stories. Wright was born in Roxie,_Mississippi, a tiny town located about 22 miles east of Natchez, in Franklin County, though his family moved soon to Memphis, where his father , a former sharecropper, abandoned them. Wright, his brother, and mother soon moved to Jackson,_Mississippi, to live with relatives. In Jackson Wright grew up and attended high school and formed some of his most lasting early impressions of American racism before eventually moving about 1927 back to Memphis, where he became acquainted with the works of such literary figures as H._L._Mencken. Eventually, he moved to Chicago, where he began to write, and then New_York_City. In May 1946 he traveled to France as a guest of the French government, where he was well-received by French intellectuals. It was then that he settled in Paris to become a permanent American expatriate. The grandson of slaves, Wright became a respected author, best known for his novel ''Native_Son'' (1940), which in 1951 was made into a film in Argentina, in which Wright played the title character, Bigger Thomas. He is also renowned for the autobiographical ''Black_Boy'' (1945), which describes his early life from Roxie through his move to Chicago and involvement with the Communist_Party, which he left in 1944. Its sequel, ''American_Hunger'', was published posthumously in 1977. Other works include 1953's ''The_Outsider'' and ''White_Man,_Listen!'' (1957), as well as a collection of short stories, ''Eight_Men'', published after his death in 1961. His works primarily deal with the poverty, anger, and protest of northern and southern urban Blacks. Richard Wright died in Paris of a heart attack, unexpectedly, at the age of 52. ---- Another Richard Wright, also known as Rick Wright (1945 - ), is the keyboard player of Pink_Floyd. He was a full member from the beginnings in 1966. However, he was only a paid session musician for most of the eighties after being ousted by Roger_Waters, specifically during The_Wall (1980-1981) and A_Momentary_Lapse_of_Reason tours. He was reinstated before the making of The_Division_Bell (1994).Solo Albums by Richard Wright
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