Richard Wright - Black Boy

Bibliography

Fiction

Uncle Tom's Children: Four Novellas (1938)
Native Son (1940)
Uncle Tom's Children: Five Long Stories (1940)
The Outsider (1953)
Savage Holiday (1954)
The Long Dream (1958)
Eight Men (1961)
Lawd Today! (1963)
American Hunger (1977)
Rite of Passage (1994)

Non-Fiction

Twelve Million Black Voices: A Folk History of the Negro in the United States (1941)
Black Boy: A Recollection of Childhood and Youth (1945)
Black Power: A Record of Reactions in a Land of Pathos (1954)
The Color Curtain: A Report on the Bandung Conference (1956)
Pagan Spain (1957)
White Man, Listen! (1957)

Recent Editions of Wright Works

Early works: Lawd Today, Uncle Tom's Children, Native Son, Library of America edition (edited by Arnold Rampersad) (1991)
Later works: Black Boy (American Hunger), The Outsider, Library of America edition (edited by Arnold Rampersad) (1991)
Savage Holiday (afterword by Gerald Early) (1994)
The Color Curtain (afterword by Amritjit Singh) (1994)
Pagan Spain (introduction by Faith Berry) (1995)
White Man, Listen! (introduction by Cedric Robinson) (1995)
Black Power (introduction by Amritjit Singh) (1995)

Selected Essays by Richard Wright

"Blueprint for Negro Writing," New Challenge (Fall 1937)
"Portrait of Harlem," New York Panorama (1938)
"How 'Bigger' Was Born," Saturday Review (June 1, 1940)
"Not My People's War," New Masses (June 17, 1941)
"I Tried to Be a Communist," Atlantic Monthly (August- September 1944), later collected in Richard Crossman (ed.), The God That Failed (1949)
"Introduction" to Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City by St. Clair Drake and Horace Cayton (1945)
"How Jim Crow Feels," True magazine (November, 1946)
"A World View of the American Negro," Twice A Year (1946-47)
"Urban Misery in an American City: Juvenile Delinquency in Harlem," Twice A Year (1947-48)
"There Is Always Another Cafe," The Kiosk (1953)
"Foreword" to Blues Fell This Morning by Paul Oliver (1960)

Selected Poetry by Richard Wright

"A Red Love Note," Left Front (January-February, 1934)
"Rest for the Weary," Left Front (January-February, 1934)
"Strength," The Anvil (March-April, 1934)
"Children of the Dead and Forgotten Gods," The Anvil (March- April 1934)
"Everywhere Burning Waters Rise," Left Front (May-June 1934)
"I Have Seen Black Hands," New Masses (June 26, 1936)
"Obsession," Midland Left (February, 1935)
"Rise and Live," Midland Left (February, 1935)
"I Am a Red Slogan," International Literature (April, 1935)
"Between the World and Me," Partisan Review (July-August, 1935)
"We of the Streets," New Masses (April 13, 1937)
"King Joe" (aka "Joe Louis Blues") song lyrics, reprinted in New York Amsterdam Star News (October 18, 1941)
"Haikus," Studies in Black Literature (Summer, 1970)
"Ten Haiku," New Letters (Winter, 1971)

Selected Biographies and Criticism on Richard Wright

Harold Bloom (ed.), Richard Wright: Modern Critical Views (1987)
Michel Fabre, The Unfinished Quest of Richard Wright (1973); second edition (1993)
Michel Fabre, The World of Richard Wright (1985)
Michel Fabre, Richard Wright: Books and Writers (1990)
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and K. A. Appiah, Richard Wright: Critical Perspectives Past and Present (1993)
Addison Gayle, Richard Wright: The Ordeal of a Native Son (1980)
Joyce Ann Joyce, Richard Wright's Art of Tragedy (1986)
Keneth Kinnamon, The Emergence of Richard Wright: A Study of Literature and Society (1972)
Keneth Kinnamon, A Richard Wright Bibliography: Fifty Years of Criticism and Commentary, 1932-1982 (1988)
Keneth Kinnamon (ed.), New Essays on Native Son (1990)
Keneth Kinnamon and Michel Fabre (eds.), Conversations with Richard Wright (1993)
Edward Margolies, The Art of Richard Wright (1969)
Eugene Miller, Voice of a Native Son: The Poetics of Richard Wright (1990)
Margaret Walker, Richard Wright: Daemonic Genius (1988)
Constance Webb, Richard Wright: A Biography (1968)
John A. Williams, The Most Native of Sons: A Biography of Richard Wright (1970)