The Man Who Was Almost a Man Resources

Although this site touches on the whole of Wright's career, it focuses primarily on his poetry, which is less well-known to the public.

Founded in honor of both Richard Wright and Zora Neale Hurston, the Hurston/Wright Foundation honors and supports black writers and their work.

Although Wright left Mississippi when he was twenty and never came back, the state eventually honored the writer with his very own holiday—Richard Wright Week.

In this interview, Wright biographer Hazel Rowley examines the author's singular life story and the way it shaped his fiction.

This brief video from the Smithsonian details Wright's early life and eventual exodus from Mississippi to Chicago.

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In this interview with NPR, Julia Wright discusses her feelings about her father's work, and specifically, his novel A Father's Law which he was working on at the time of his death.

In 2007, writer Farah Jasmine Griffin named Richard Wright the fourth most influential African-American author of all-time. Check out the interview with NPR in which she discusses the honor.

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